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From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Serena, four months and smiling

November 24, 2007

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Serena, four months and smiling, originally uploaded by MzMuze. Photos from Thanksgiving and the past week. Enjoy!

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Hippy Thanksgiving!

November 22, 2007

Right now I am wearing a flour-covered baby in a sling while I roll out pie crusts for our Thanksgiving dinner. In addition to piles of locally grown organic veggies, my kitchen counter is playing host to the Tassajara Bread Book, the Moosewood Cookbook and The Farm Recipe Book. In other words, I have officially [...]

Tagged as: life stuff, parenting, serena

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Preschool cannibalism

November 14, 2007

Rio takes an art class at a friend’s house near our home, and we walk to and from it each Wednesday afternoon. Today on the way home we had this conversation: “Is this our neighborhood, Mama?” “Yep” “Is Nora (the girl who hosts art class) our neighbor?” “Yep.” “Our neighborhood is full of neighbors, right?” [...]

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Serena being serene

November 13, 2007

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Serena being serene, originally uploaded by MzMuze. Just in case you forgot I had a The Cutest Baby Evar.

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Preschool logic

November 11, 2007

How to get attention 1. Bite your baby sister while she’s bouncing on your mama’s knee. 2. Get sent away from sister and mama. 3. Watch from the hallway while your sister is showered with love and concern, and her tiny wound is treated. 4. Bite self. 5. Say, “Look Mom, I bit myself! I [...]

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Learning to read

November 10, 2007

I keep forgetting to post this bit from the beginning of September, right after preschool started for Rio. ‘s post about reading just reminded me. She was sitting at the counter, when she suddenly and with fierce enthusiasm yelled, “Mom! Look! There’s an ‘A’!!” Pointing at the picture of an apple with the word apple [...]

Tagged as: rio, rioisms

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Geek kids are funny

November 6, 2007

Rio is racing around the house screaming, “Quick Buffy! Run before Dobby comes!”

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enlightenment starts early

November 4, 2007

Rio puts her shoes and socks on and runs into the living room, stopping with a showy leap, arms out, head raised. “Hey Mom! Ta-da-da! I found myself!”

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