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Your First Birthdays

May 31, 2011 – 4:12 pm

Dear James and Owen, Your first birthday was most perfect. Sophie helped us wrap your presents. We had make-your-own-tacos for dinner, along with corn salsa. You loved the avocado, beans, corn and cheese, among other things (and I was worried you’d still be eating baby food on your first birthday!). So many people who love […]

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Becoming 1-Year-Olds

May 27, 2011 – 9:05 am

James, May 19, 2010* James, May 19, 2011 Owen, May 19, 2010* Owen, May 19, 2011 *These are the only pictures I have of my beautiful boys on the day they were born—I never saw them in the delivery room. They were whisked away to the NICU too quickly. After delivery I was wheeled down […]

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Significance, Insignificance and the Validity of the Tantrum

May 25, 2011 – 8:17 pm

I gave a lot of thought to the boys’ first birthday present. I had toyed with the idea of a water table for Sophie, but never bought her one. After I saw how the boys reacted to baths out of the sink and in a real tub (so. much. splashing.) I knew they would love […]

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Window Watchers

May 25, 2011 – 7:59 am

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” —Walt Whitman

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A Handmade Puppet Theater

May 24, 2011 – 8:35 am

In April we had another, small birthday celebration for Sophie at my parents’ house, as they were unable to join us on her actual birthday because they were in North Carolina, where my sister and her husband were welcoming their new baby into this world. My mom and dad had cooked Sophie’s favorite foods, and […]

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Snuggling With Grandma

May 17, 2011 – 11:09 pm

Even at 3, Sophie still loves to snuggle up with Grandma and, invariably, fall asleep. “Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.” —Welsh proverb

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We Call Her the Manipulator

May 17, 2011 – 8:42 pm

Saturday night my parents stopped by the house to take all three children out to dinner, giving us some quiet time to get things done (this week’s to-do list is two pages long and single-spaced, because of things due, appointments made months ago, out-of-town guests and birthday party preparations). So Nini and Pop Pop loaded […]

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Playing Guitar

May 17, 2011 – 12:23 am

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.” —Robert G. Ingersoll

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Library Book Bags

May 13, 2011 – 3:51 pm

Speaking of libraries, my mom made these fantastic library book bags for the kids for Easter this year. Sophie’s has Olivia (one of her favorite book characters) on it, while the boys’ bags have Dr. Seuss‘s Thing 1 and Thing 2. James’s bag is the middle one—to reflect his content-to-sit-quietly-and-think personality. Owen’s is the one […]

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Help Build a Library in Belize

May 11, 2011 – 3:19 pm

Last fall my cousin Ben taught at Our Lady of Guadalupe Primary School in Belmopan, Belize. (Here he is with his class, all decked out for Cultural Day.) While there, Ben realized that the school, which educates 700 children, pre-kindergarten through the 8th grade, doesn’t have a library. So, he formed the OLOG Library Group, […]

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