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35 weeks pregnant. It is time to order my birth kit, even though the thought fills me with all kinds of superstitious fears of committing an act of hubris. But yet? I am so relieved I can plan to labor in my own bedroom, in my own bathroom, my own little cave, and not have [...]
I was right: my ex-OB was lying to me.
So, umm, let’s work on finding all this funny… this morning produced the following series of adventures for our toddler: first, she got hold of and spilled and broke my coffee cup. My fault: it seems today she’s rather taller than, say, yesterday, and my brain seems to be having a slow day because I [...]
Z can walk really well now, and she can walk fast. Like, look-away-a-minute-and-she’s-at-the-other-end-of-the-house-throwing-the-phone-into-the-bathtub fast. So there may not be a lot of writing here for a while. There is so much walking going on, and not enough time!
I shan’t be going to Blogher this year after all. Why? Well. A has to travel for work then and I’d have to take Z with me. Which would be fairly expensive. And right now, we suddenly need to hoard all our cash and then some because something so awesome I can’t quite believe it [...]
Z is now a walker. She taught herself to walk carefully, meticulously, and with lots of caution designed to avoid encounters with anything that might hurt. It was impressive to watch: she set her mind to it and practiced and practiced and slowly but surely figured it out, over the course of a little over [...]
Kedves Zsuzsi! Now that you are a year old, it seems only fair that you should get a letter from me. After all, you can almost read! (Ahem, turn the pages of books so fast that no one can see what’s on them.) I can’t quite believe you’ve been around an entire set of 365 [...]
Z got mended, of course. We did end up going to the doctor, who was great and whom I want to take home with me to New Jersey, then on the third day of her fever it all started to go down and by the fourth day, all we were left with was a lot [...]
We are in Detroit! About which I am ridiculously excited except for some minor glitches, about which more below. And no, we’re not staying in a motel at all, instead in someone’s renovated house in Brush Park. There is ridiculously beautiful architecture here: Most of it in varying stages of decay: And then there are [...]
Turns out my local mom-friends and I are in a fairly small minority. One could say fringe minority. Let me explain. Obsessions die hard and I’ve been researching everything about infant nutrition and especially breastfed babies in some of my off moments. And it turns out that in the U.S. a bit less than 12% [...]
We’re going to Detroit this Friday for three weeks. A’s going to be photographing and I’m going to spend lots of time not being on my own with Z! I mean except when he’s got to go shoot somewhere where I refuse to go on account of general unsafeness with babies. Who crawl everywhere, and [...]
I tend to have a lot of ideas for blog posts while showering, playing with Z, walking the dog, grocery shopping, and so on. Somehow I never remember any of them when I sit down to blog. On the other hand, my daughter has a wicked sense of humor. And by wicked I mean the [...]
1. I realize they mean well. And yet it’s safe to say that few people have done more damage to my mental health than pediatricians since Z was born. I’m beginning to gear up for the 12-month visit. Or rather, do research till I drop to brace myself for it. I can’t believe Z will be [...]
It’s that time of the year: when holidays turn most religious – Easter and Passover, coming together as they do. My own point of view is markedly different from most moms who blog. In fact, when reading references to prayer, I feel very much like an outsider who had better remain politely silent. [...]
There is a shrieking noise Z emits whenever she has to spend time being shuttled to and from somewhere around town strapped in her car seat. Which is to say, it’s a noise she uses when I am driving with her in the car, and there’s no one else there to entertain her with songs, [...]
Current firsts: In addition to the word ‘lamp,’ Z recognizes the dog’s name. She now likes putting things into and taking them out of containers. Endlessly. Until she gets bored, at which point she gets up on her tippy-toes, or hands herself along furniture, or crouches down to pick up lint, gets up, crouches down to pick up [...]
Baby Z understands the word ‘lamp’. In Hungarian, for starters. (What that means? That I’ve been pointing out lamps to her very diligently of late. And now she points them out to me when I ask, where’s the lamp? Something about sources of light is recognizable even to infants, apparently.) Going from no words or [...]
It works fine for us: being silly. One could say we are good at it. To wit: (Z did not suddenly grow all that hair: it’s a cheap costume wig. For next Halloween. Must practice for next Halloween.) But sometimes life gets serious, for example when we have to divvy up some potato chips: (Yes, [...]
Nevertheless, its what finally got Z to try fingerfoods: I baked some sugary pecan-fig-orange cookies that she was rather taken with. Yes, I know how many items it contains that one is not supposed to let a less-than-one-year-old person nibble on. But she insisted. She grabbed the cookies out of my hand and shrieked an [...]
Our pediatrician’s appointment today could, all things considered, have gone better. We did indeed fail the nutrition portion of today’s exam, although developmentally all’s well (crawling: check, pulling herself to standing: check, pincer grasp: check, babbling-brooke-like soundtrack to the day: check, and so on). But (and it’s kind of a largish but): while height-wise Z [...]
The Oscars this year? Rather satisfying, weren’t they? Appropriately cabaret-like: loved Hugh Jackman’s hosting. Isn’t it more fun when Hollywood mostly does not pretend to be anything other than beautiful escapist entertainment? And as such super populist and also important because sometimes the only place where truth can be spoken? Baby Z and I were [...]
It’s so windy outside I’m afraid to go for a walk. Does that sound ridiculous? It is. But there are a lot of trees in our neighborhood that regularly, and randomly, fall on the sidewalk in this town. Or on houses: Z and I were looking out the window for a span of thirty seconds [...]
My life is strewn with first things lately. Z sat directly in the cart yesterday at Target. She loved it. She twisted herself every which way the better to see everything, and the better to be able to flirt with the cashier. Did you see the baby hanging upside down from the seat of the [...]
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