Music For Mister Finn and His Babyfriends

Hello friends in the real world and inter-world alike.  I’m making a mix of music for Mister Finn and his babyfriends. Do YOU want a copy? I will mail you a CD! A real, live one, that will traverse over hills and mountains and maybe even oceans to get to you.

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Mixed Messages

Mister Finn has been doing this really lovely thing where he acts tired (rubbing eyes, yawning, fussy, wanting to nurse) and then the minute we begin the process of getting him down for a nap his eyes spring open and he starts babbling and orating animatedly, doing everything he can to tell us that he [...]

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About Pride (and Prejudice)

{I wrote this for Mister Finn a few weeks ago but it got lost in the hospital adventure.} To my A., You are only one year old and you can’t read yet (though sometimes it seems like you can), but I am writing you a letter today to tell you about Pride. You went to [...]

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It’s in the Intonation

I say to Mister Finn, “I love you.”  And he says, “I la la.”

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Nope, not ghost knots. Real knots.

It turns out I was especially worried about Mister Finn’s cough for a reason. {How does this parental “intuition” thing work?? What does it mean? How do I keep myself from having false-alarm freak-outs, now that I’m apparently developing a track record of sensing correctly when something is wrong with my baby?} On Wednesday morning [...]

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