Life with a Baby

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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Triage.

October 31, 2011

I lift the babies out of their cribs, trying to keep the hurry out of my voice and my eyes off the clock.  Cole is so anxious to be held that he bangs his head on the crib rails trying to pull himself up. “Just a second, buddy,” I say as I turn off the [...]

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Perhaps I imagine wrong

October 24, 2011

Downstairs the microwave beeps for a fifth or sixth time. Insistent on announcing that the water I heated for tea nearly ten minutes ago is now ready. Has been ready. On the bed, the baby squirms and cries. Getting his diaper changed is such an inconvenience these days.  I hear footsteps, proceeded by the smack [...]

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Big sisters make everything better

October 10, 2011

Vaccines are rough on my boy. I don’t know if it’s the medication making him out of sorts or the shots making his leg sore, but it never fails that the night of Cole’s checkups are a little rough.  I thought we were out of the woods with the most recent round of vaccines when [...]

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My weekend in soundbites

October 3, 2011

Last week, I read (watched?) a post by Jill and it sort of inspired this one. Or, I ripped it off.  But not really, because I’m too shy to vlog.  This was my weekend in soundbites:  Hi birthday girl! Wow, that’s a really big tent someone got you. Really? It has to stay right here [...]

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The daycare update

September 8, 2011

Today is Chessa’s sixth day of daycare. Six times I’ve dropped her off at Miss Barb’s, kissed her goodbye and quickly walked away.  Only two of those times did I leave a crying child and all of those times I came back to pick her up 4:30 and heard her giggles before I saw her [...]

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Dear Time: I’ve changed my mind!

August 17, 2011

I distinctly remembering being 13 years old and desperately wanting to be older. Oh, how I ached to go to Sunday night dances at the town park, get my license and give up riding with my parents, move out, date, and so on.  Then when I graduated from high school, I wanted to be done with [...]

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For Moms: The parenting advice you didn’t get

July 18, 2011

Dear New Mom, By now you’ve received all the pre-requisite baby advice. Everyone down to strangers at the mall have told you to cherish every moment because it goes too fast (it does). A co-worker has filled you in that you won’t be in your bathroom without an audience again for the next several years [...]

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We survived the beach…. with two babies

July 11, 2011

“What was your favorite part?” I asked, cradling her in my arms.  Behind us waves crashed onto the beach.  Their sound low and soft. Our personal white noise.  She looked up at me with wide eyes.  Not, I noticed, the tired eyes a toddler should have at 2AM.  “SUNCASHULES!” she answered with a grin.  “Sandcastles!  You had fun with [...]

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Randomness in 404 words

April 20, 2011

Chessa loves Elmo.  LOVES. To the point where we DVR Sesame Street every day, she has no less than four Elmo dolls and four Elmo DVD’s – two at our house, one in the car and one at her grandparents house.  At first it was cute and endearing when she’d point to the TV and ask for “ELMO”.  [...]

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