Baby Boy

That’s life

April 10, 2012

Oh hey look! A blog post. Actually this was just a test to see if I even remembered my password to get into this site. Turns out I do. I guess that’s the upside to using one of the same three passwords for every. single. thing. I’d like to say I’ve recommitted myself to writing [...]

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March 16, 2012

I sit with my back against the arm of the couch and my knees pulled up. Like when she was a baby, I sit her facing me, with her back against my knees. Only now, her legs extend past my ears and her head is high above my the tops of my knees.  I laugh [...]

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Dear Cole – One Year Letter

March 7, 2012

Dear Cole, A year ago, I sat with my hand on my belly, feeling you wiggle and kick as your daddy and I drove to the hospital. I was quiet. Wondering what your birth would be like, wondering how it would feel to be a new mother again, wondering who you would be and wondering [...]

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Grounded.

February 23, 2012

I’m rocking him back and forth in the white glider and softly singing my favorite James Taylor song.  A short afternoon nap and full bottle has made him sleepy and he looks at me with that same milk drunk look that he had when he was an infant and was half of his current size.  I smile at [...]

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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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