Baby Boy

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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Letters to Cole {Month 8}

November 7, 2011

Cole Michael, Hey buddy. Slow down.  No, really.  Slow. Down.  In the last month you’ve added crawling, fighting with your sister and pulling yourself up on furniture to your list of “things I can do without breaking a sweat.”  And Momma’s not ready for that.  Certainly I’m not ready to be chasing two kids in [...]

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I really have to stop turning around

October 17, 2011

Say what you want about boys and girls not being very different as babies, I don’t remember finding his sister under the table chewing on the chair at seven months old. 

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I swear it’s OK if he doesn’t play football

October 12, 2011

I mean, teaching him golf sounds like a really good plan some days.

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Letters to Cole, Month 7

October 9, 2011

Dear Cole, Seven months old. Seven months and two days old, if you’re going for accuracy. You have taken off this month, from baby boy to little boy. Maybe it’s the way you zip across the floor after your sister or one of her toys. Or your blond hair that is getting longer and thicker [...]

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You can close your eyes

September 20, 2011

Well the sun is surely sinking down. But the moon is slowly rising. So this old world must still be spinning around. And I still love you.  I shift his weight in my arms, press his body to my chest, and graze my nose along his cheek as I sing softly with the song that’s [...]

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sharing. in pictures

September 9, 2011

Oh hey, two cute kids laying on their blankets playing with their toys.  Boy kid eyes up girl kid’s Elmo.    Girl is doubtful that this is going to end well, but gives boy the benefit of the doubt. Boy is not deterred.    “NO! My Elmo!”   “Fine. I’ll pull your hair.”   “Screw [...]

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