Baby Girl

11-Month Letter

August 30, 2010

Dear C, 11 months old.  One month shy of a year since we met you and became proud parents of a beautiful little girl.  While we have been proud of you since you were minutes old and wrapping your hand around Daddy’s finger and our hearts around your pinkie, it has only been in the [...]

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Another milestone down…

August 9, 2010

As time sprints forward towards C’s first birthday, I’ve been thinking about all the things I have to take from in the coming weeks or months.  Her bottles.  Her pacifier. My sanity.  It’s not just that I want her to stay a cute snuggly baby who babbles and sits in my arms instead of a [...]

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Ten-Month Letter To My Little One

July 30, 2010

Dear Baby Girl, Soon I am going to have to start these letters with “Dear Little Girl” because you, my sweet thing?  You are leaving babyhood in the dust.  Every day you look and act more and more like a little kid and while sometimes, my heart swells so hard and so fast with pride [...]

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A letter to the center of my world…

June 30, 2010

Dear Baby Girl, Nine months old today.  Nine months.  Some days it is so hard to imagine my life before you were a part of it and other days it feels like I just brought you home from the hospital yesterday.  Before you came along, things were mighty different around our house.  I had my [...]

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The countdown to walking has begun

June 21, 2010

Friday morning, I was home from work, sipping a cup of tea on the couch.  Minding my own business as C crawled on the floor at my feet.  The next thing I knew, I saw her place her tiny little hand on the couch.  I reached down, brushed her hair to the side and kissed [...]

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Little Miss Independent

June 16, 2010

O my.  My child has decided that she will be independent now. At dinner, she no longer wants to wait for me to bring the spoon to her mouth.  After a bite or two, she’s reaching for it, trying to pry it out of my hand and “helping” me feed her.  Then she chews on [...]

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You know what’s slower than watching grass grow?

June 10, 2010

Teeth.  Add this to the list of things I never realized.  Because teeth?  They take a damn long time to grow.  I have thought that maybe, possibly, could it be, my child was teething since the beginning of March.  With every slightly warm forehead, every time she woke up through the night and every time [...]

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My sweet child (8-month letter)

May 30, 2010

Happy 8 months sweet girl.  With every month time seems to go a little faster.  It’s crap, actually.  Just as I get all excited about you reaching a milestone, you’re on to the next one before I even have a chance to brag about it.  It’s so funny to watch you throughout the day.  You [...]

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Ready? Set. Go!

May 23, 2010

She’s learning to crawl.  She lays down on the floor, pushes her upper body up and looks around.  Once she sets her eyes on her destination, she lays her chest back to the floor, stretches out her arm and slides her hip forward.  She moves quickly, dragging her belly across the carpet as she moves [...]

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Remember when….

May 3, 2010

Remember when my daughter laid still for a diaper change or after her bath and all I wanted was for her to roll over?  Remember that?  Remember how for weeks she would get oh, so close to rolling over and I’d get all excited and then she would fall to her back with a big [...]

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