Baby Boy

Month 11 {Letters to Cole}

February 9, 2012

Dear Cole, As I write this we are on vacation. Your first trip to Florida, hopefully not your last. But given that I think I heard you crying at 2AM last night from your grandmother’s room, I’m not sure we’ll be invited back. Oh, buddy. I know I say this all the time. It’s probably starting [...]

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my kids have new tricks

January 25, 2012

The clock clicks slowly towards their bedtimes and the kids are bouncing off the walls. I’m torn between letting them bounce and crawl and run and jump, hoping for extra tired kids and an easier time getting them in pajamas and tucked into bed and asking them to please, just shhhh….  Chessa starts showing me [...]

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We dance

January 17, 2012

He fusses for his daddy. He does that a lot lately. I thought when I had another baby he or she might like me better. When Cole would curl up to me at only a few months old, I thought “ahh.. this is what all those mommas of boys have been talking about.” But no [...]

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On c-sections… and education… and judgment

January 11, 2012

It’s been a year since the migraines started. Almost a year since we started talking about a c-section. Just over ten months since the surgery and Cole’s birth. I never gave much thought to a c-section or paid attention to heated debates, snarky comments and even well meaning advice for people to become more educated [...]

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Letters to Cole {Month 10}

January 7, 2012

Dear Cole, At ten months old, I’m trying desperately to commit to memory the parts of your babyhood that warm my soul from inside out. The way your blond hair, though getting longer, still has the soft silky feel of an infant. The way when I snuggle you before bed, you suck your thumb and [...]

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No, YOU be the patient parent

December 19, 2011

When people ask me what it’s like to have two kids so close together and so young, I usually laugh and say that it’s wonderful.  Hard. But wonderful.  Then I tell them that someone is usually crying. I tell them I didn’t know children so young could fight so much.  I tell them that one [...]

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Letters to Cole {9 Months}

December 9, 2011

Dear Cole, Nine months. Nine whole months as we round out the holidays and the year. You are, by far, the best thing that happened to us this year. It’s your birth that keeps me from writing this year off as a hot mess. Because if your daddy and I had to go through everything [...]

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Weekends were made for this

November 30, 2011

A Sunday afternoon earlier this month.   Finding joy and happiness in the simplest of things.  Like a game of hopscotch.  And learning to jump.  When the weather was cool but not cold. When the leaves had fallen off the trees and the calendar said we should be pulling out mittens and heating chocolate, but the [...]

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Just… go to sleep

November 29, 2011

Sunday He fights against me with everything that he has.  Angry arms are trying to flail, but I hold them firm against me; tiny feet are kicking against my hip.  I hold him tight, readjust when he wiggles a space between us and keep walking and bouncing and shushing.  He’s tired. It’s an hour and [...]

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I don’t even know what my point was

November 16, 2011

The voices are raised so that we can hear each other over the sound coming from the TV, the sizzling of hamburger browning and the fan that keeps my smoke alarm from screaming.  Chessa is yelling to be heard, the adults in the room are in a heated conversation and Cole is starting to cry [...]

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