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 your first [...]

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We have a tooth!

Finally!  I have not gotten a picture of the little bugger yet, but hope to soon. So, first tooth: 10.5 months. A little bit of a late bloomer, I guess? All of his other baby friends already have some; though what an odd thing to worry about (not that I was worried, really)– it’s not [...]

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First Birthday

It was a beautiful day.  It is hard to wrap my brain around the fact that it has been a full year since A. was born. But here we are: he is ONE! I feel victorious, blessed, and tired. As beautiful, important days often are, the day was a frenzied collection of minutes; the minutes [...]

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First Strange, New Person Taking Care of My Baby

Well, aside from the hundreds of strange, new people that took care of him for three months in the hospital. But it’s different now. He is mine now.
We met someone that we, and our dog, like enough to be our part-part-part-time nanny. Nanny just sounds better than Babysitter, don’t you think?  R. is maybe a [...]

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First Christmas

Now I shall take a break from obsessively reading Ask Moxie’s sleep-related archives, and turn temporarily to happy thoughts. (How is it that I have so much writing time?  Well, our open-ceilinged apartment is dark, in hopes of setting a sleep-inducing mood for Mister Finn, and my computer is the only real source of light. After [...]

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First Formed Poop

I will spare you a picture of this one, but I will say that it was the exact size and shape of a tangerine wedge. Wifey and I exclaimed at the changing table, “Oh Mister Finn, you pooped like a big boy!”  He seemed pleased.

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First Christmas Tree Farm

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First Pumpkin Patch

Thank heavens time is non-linear in Blogland because this happened about a month ago!
Uncle K came up from Portland and we all went to a pumpkin patch out in the farmlands. It was a beautiful, warm day and the mood was celebratory. For in a vine-tangled field of symbolic, giant, orange squash bobbing beneath a [...]

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Baby’s First Protest

Equal Rights March, Saturday November 15th, 2008

It was a beautiful day, and the march was a HUGE success– over 3,000 people took to the streets of downtown Seattle.  It was a diverse group:  lots of families, strollers, straight people of my parents’ generation, old, young, the dressed up to party.  It was very peaceful, people [...]

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