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rioisms

Magical potty training

August 20, 2007

A few weeks before Serena was born, Rio mysteriously began peeing in her bed at night, after being dry through the night for most of a year. We have tried everything we could think of to discourage this, which has been pretty much nothing because how do you tell someone not to do something IN [...]

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The horror

August 20, 2007

I apparently have a habit of teasing the baby about her crying, which is I think understandable since babies cry like it is the end of the world when it is simply the end of a dry diaper. So I’m sure it was my doing that the other day when Serena started to cry and [...]

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How does that baby get out?

June 5, 2007

During a childbirth class recently, M and I were encouraged to think about how to prep Rio for my labor. I honestly had not thought about communicating with her about the labor part at all; I’d been kind of hiding the more painful aspects of pregnancy and was hoping she would miss the bloody, messy, [...]

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Blue

June 1, 2007

Rio, as she snuggles into my bed a little after dawn: I like you Mama. You have blue eyes. You have the same blue eyes as Nana. You have Nana’s eyes. And I have blue eyes. I have your eyes.

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the baby loves me

March 29, 2007

The scene: I’m lying in my side in bed, watching Rio practice marching like a dinosaur (who knew dinosaurs marched?). After a bit she comes over and lies down with me, with her arms around my belly and her face resting on it, looking into my eyes. She’s got one ear pressed to my abdomen, [...]

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hellooooo boooobies!

February 15, 2007

The scene yesterday: me at the computer, “working”. rio climbs onto my lap, pulls the collar of my shirt out as far from my body as it will go and sticks her face into the opening. “Hello Boobies! Hellooooooo! I love you, Boobies!” Just now, same setting, she came running over, grabbed my chest and [...]

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Rio as proto-surgeon

February 6, 2007

Ever since my ultra-sound, Rio has been attempting to open parts of her body. Mostly her legs. I first noticed this when she was running around the kitchen saying, “Open! Open! Open! Hard! Hard! Hard!” in an increasingly frustrated way while she pinched the skin on her legs. At first I thought she was having [...]

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world of the absurd

February 6, 2007

1. Scene: Day Care Me: Sweetie, please don’t put cheese in your ear. Rio: But Cheese loves me. Me: uh…I know cheese loves you, but don’t put it in your ear. Rio (slightly exasperated, like mom just does not get it): Cheese loves my ears. 2. Scene: Old Navy Me: Am I correct that I [...]

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Potholes on the road to reading

November 8, 2006

We’re doing letter blocks. We have just finished with ‘T’, and I bring out the ‘U’. “This is U,” I say. “That’s me,” Rio says dubiously. “No, it’s the letter “U” “That’s the letter me.” “No, it’s a letter called ‘U” “That letter called “rio” “Let’s do this one. It’s called “V”

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rio says…

October 18, 2006

We’re nursing after a nap a few days ago and she suddenly looks up at me and says, “This one’s not working.” Not working? I ask. “This booby not working,” she says. “We got shopping and buy a new one?” “What?!” “We go shopping, buy new boobies,” she tells me quite confidently. _____________ Yesterday, actually [...]