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Spring has Sprung (photographic evidence)
The weather was AMAZING this weekend, so we spent most of our waking hours at the park near our house. And I’ve got the photos to prove it. I even got Simon to snap one of me and Adlai. I … Continue...
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He sang this song first.
There’s a little song I sing to Adlai at bedtime, one I wrote just for him. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s a song about the boy he is, and about the man I know he’ll grow up to be. The … Continue reading →
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Always Be My Baby
At 21 months old, my little boy is certainly not a baby anymore. He can run and spin and climb just about anything. He’s a got a vocabulary that grows exponentially by the day. He brushes his...
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Names to Give Your Children {for Americans}
I’m kind of obsessed with names. Way before I ever got pregnant with Adlai, I owned a book of baby names that I mostly used to look up the meanings of names of people I met. When we got pregnant, …...
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What I Brought Back
Well, that’s it. I’ve returned from the US with a 23-month-old, some great memories, and a suitcase full of things I just couldn’t leave behind…like some reeeeally cute plastic drinking cups from...
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Family Photos
In addition to the photo I used on Friday to show you my baby bump, my friend Sarah took quite a few more of me and Simon and Adlai while we were in North Carolina earlier this month. What you …...
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On Teaching a Toddler to Talk
Sometimes teaching Adlai new words feels a lot like this.
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To My Son on His Second Birthday
Dear Adlai, It seems fitting that you’re turning two today, on Thanksgiving Day. I’ve only ever been as thankful as I am for you today for one other thing, and that is your Daddy. On the day you were...
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It’s a…
In which I clear up the sex of this baby… boys’ room | Mast Brothers| Mario Bros. Let’s hear it for the boys.
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Full
All day Saturday I felt this baby boy moving inside of me. And I mean all. day. I pointed it out to Simon, who watched from across the room as my belly pulsed and rolled, and I put Adlai’s hand …...
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Answering the call of the quiet buffalo
via It was never my intention to not write for two weeks, but these last few weeks of pregnancy have done something strange to me: they have turned me into an introvert. A friend of mine in her final...
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Five Things Friday
Five Pregnancy-Related Things People Have Said to Me This Week 1. “It doesn’t look like your baby has dropped yet.” For anyone not well-versed in pregnancy speak, a baby generally “drops” (also known...
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The Fear
Last Friday, I made a list of things people have said to me recently about my pregnancy. Most of them were about my size, but one was just this: “Come out, Baby Dwight!” Before this past weekend, my...
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Introducing…
On March 25, Koa David arrived via a quick and peaceful delivery. More to come, as I re-enter the land of the living.
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This Day
As I write this, Adlai is sleeping upstairs, and Koa is lying at my feet, cooing and shouting and occasionally puking or sounding like he’s going to need to be picked up soon, to be wound into the Moby...
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Sweet Relief
On Friday last week, only six days ago, I called Simon in tears while Adlai napped and Koa sat screaming in his bouncy seat. “I know God says He’ll give us what we need,” I sobbed, “but He doesn’t. I...
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My Bold and Courageous One
I looked at Koa just now, and I saw something. I was putting him down for his nap, and he was swaddled up, his little arms pinned to his sides, his sweet head poking out from his baby blue burrito …...
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To my boys, when I first learned how to love you
You are both asleep now, by some miracle. Adlai, you’ve learned how to catapult yourself over your crib railing, but I’ve learned that if I wear you out at the park in the morning, you won’t kick up...
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My Redemption Baby
I took this picture of Koa this week as we sat on my unmade bed. Adlai was napping in the other room, and Koa had woken up, happy as usual. Even as I type it, it seems impossible. “Happy.” “As …...
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This Kind of Tired
Before Koa was born, I thought I was tired. When Simon and I point this out to each other, we laugh maniacally, and the laughter sometimes turns into hysterical crying. But I digress. I thought I was...
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