In our Exciting Event of the Week, Jack crushed his fingers in the trunk of the car. We were heading to baseball practice, him and me and Craig (Professor has been out of town for ten days in a row, but he comes back soon – and he took Liam with him for the latter six days…
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Orbit
We were never one person. We were always only two people, one inside the other. In those pregnant months it felt like we were one, but of course they each had their own hearts, and after a few weeks, their own little budding kidneys, a little wee stomach, liver, a tiny electric brain – all the important pieces and…
This guy turned one on Friday. In what I suspect will be typical of this Gulf Coaster’s birthday in years to come, his birthday celebration was actually a Mardi Gras celebration. In other words, instead of having any kind of cake or party, we all went to a parade. Friday was an extremely…
Get Into the Groove
(You’re welcome for the earworm.) Liam had the novel experience this morning of being “the well-behaved one” for once, and I wanted to get the event down for posterity. As you may recall, the Professor does his professor-ing in a different city and state, and travels there each week to stay three days in a…
Lean Mean Weaning Machine
Well, I think I’m done pumping, which de facto means I’m pretty much done nursing. Exit Baby-Making Stage of Life – enter Stage Two: Growing Kids and Careers edition. I’d planned to carry on nursing fully through the Christmas holidays, since I will be home with the baby for several of those days and it’s…