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Sleep Position

May 29, 2008 – 11:44 am

Sometimes I sleep with my arms in the air. It’s comfortable, really! “In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.” —Steven Kloves

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Welcome Home, Dad

May 28, 2008 – 8:49 pm

Sophie is all smiles now when Andy comes home from work. “You will always be your child’s favorite toy.” —Vicki Lansky

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Tucker’s New Friend

May 28, 2008 – 8:38 pm

Monday Jen brought over her new puppy, Joey (short for Josephine), to play with Tucker. Here Tucker and Joey are meeting for the first time. They share very well. Jen got some Sophie holding time, too. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” —Charles M. Schulz

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For Maria

May 25, 2008 – 11:05 pm

A pretty dress and a pretty smile. “The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.” —Madeleine Vionnet

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Quilts

May 25, 2008 – 10:30 pm

Earlier this month Kyle, my dad, Sophie and I went to a quilt dedication at Creekside Elementary, where my mom teaches kindergarten. To create the quilt you see here, my mom’s students used a lot of the philosophies of the Reggio Emilia Approach (which my mom studied in Italy earlier this year). They sold homemade […]

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Finally, Sleep

May 22, 2008 – 9:58 am

Sophie slept from midnight to 5:45 this morning, then again from 6:30 to 8:30. Life is good. “Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,Beloved from pole to pole.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Election Day

May 21, 2008 – 8:26 pm

Yesterday Sophie learned all about voting, mainly, that you get a sticker. “It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.” —Barack Obama

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Last Bruises Are Fading

May 20, 2008 – 2:29 pm

Last week I finally finished my shots. Because of a possible Protein C deficiency, I had to give myself two injections of Lovenox daily, throughout the pregnancy. Starting at 36 weeks I switched to two injections of Heparin, and continued the Heparin for six weeks after Sophie was born. That’s 544 shots. And we still […]

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Brooklyn Baby

May 20, 2008 – 2:21 pm

When Uncle Kyle and Christina came to visit, Sophie wore a onesie Uncle Kyle bought for her in Brooklyn, before she was born. It was made by a Brooklyn artist and has a cool screen print of the Brooklyn Bridge on front and says “Brooklyn Baby” on back. Sophie loves it. “When Charles first saw […]

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And a Visit From Christina

May 20, 2008 – 2:10 pm

Kyle’s girlfriend, Christina, seemed to be much more experienced with baby holding. She also offered to babysit, which Andy and I will be sure to take advantage of in the future! And Sophie wasn’t fussy everytime Uncle Kyle held her.

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    We woke them up for breakfast and they fell asleep while waiting for their bagels to toast. Perhaps we should have done a better job transitioning back to these early mornings. Also, I already have one home with me today due to a fever. Two days, I got. Two days! I mean, I hope he feels better soon. 2nd, 4th, 2nd. Walking back after dropping them off Andy gave me a high-five and said, "You have until 3!" (Turns out working from home with kids at home, even when they're older, is difficult. I've been counting down the days.) And then I cried. Motherhood is complex. My dad has practically fed us all month with garden treasures: zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans and now, cantaloupe. This year he's also made relish, pickles and salsa (which is not pictured because it's half gone). Still, in retirement, he's one of the hardest workers I know. For 7 years we've cooked with only one large burner. I don't know why we never called someone. When the boys were little everything not a necessity was put off. And I didn't think about it, really, until I needed both burners and I would whine as my meal took longer to prepare, vow to call someone in the morning and then promptly forget while brewing coffee and the blur of a new day began. This week Andy order a new radiant surface element for $92 on Amazon. It arrived two days later and he spent an hour installing it. And it's fixed. The old one had tiny little cracks in the clay causing minuscule breaks. All those years, all those meals. And this was the fix. We've reached the point in summer in which squirrels eating flowers one story up is entertainment. #aug16 Nature shop. The dandelion cost me a nickel. And the shelving was quite precarious. Apparently paper gowns at the pediatrician's office are hilarious. This kid is 7 and this week I discovered he's never husked an ear of corn. I'm failing as a parent. (Also, there are two 7 year olds who will be husking all our corn throughout these sweet end-of-summer months.) We buy floss in bulk. Sometime in the last five years bridges have begun to freak me out. (Why?) But we walked across this beauty last week. And I didn't freak out. Mostly. Maybe a little. way better than the strip mall salon working in Pop Pop's garden sunset over the dunes, Huntington Beach State Park (Andy is no longer listening to my arguments about why we should move) Seashell ornaments decorating an empty beach. Humans can be lovely sometimes. We fell in love with long night walks on the empty beach. The first was a pleasant surprise because James, in particular, was such a disaster that same morning, during our sunrise walk. (At one point he was so grumpy and annoyed with us that he tried to run away. As I watched him run straight into a family's professional photo shoot I began yelling "Run AROUND the photographer! AROUND her!" He turned around, fists clenched, and ran past us, the other direction.) Turns out he's not a morning person. Also, it was this night I saw a huge shooting star.
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