My baby is seven months old today!
She seems so grown-up these days, scooting and crawling and telling us exactly what’s on her mind. She loves the sound of her own voice. Her favorite word is “Mama,” and she may not know what it means, but she knows that when she says it and reaches for [...]
Archive for September, 2008
seven months
Posted in family, photos, tagged abigail, family, motherhood, photos on 09.23.2008 | Leave a Comment »
look at him digging in the sand with a shell
Posted in family, literature, tagged abigail, family, motherhood, reading on 09.15.2008 | Leave a Comment »
From an article in The New Yorker about whether Babar the Little Elephant is sneaky Frenchy colonialist propaganda:
“Page 2 of ‘Babar’” is a code word among certain parents for the entire issue of what it is right to expose our children to. (It’s actually the sixth numbered page in the book, and the fourth page [...]
well baby, love a dovey all the time
Posted in family, tagged abigail, family, motherhood on 09.12.2008 | 2 Comments »
Abigail had her six-month well-baby checkup today. We just switched insurance providers – now we’re on my husband’s student health plan – and I was pleasantly surprised to find that her checkup was free. No copay or anything. At first I was touched; as in, Wow, Large Evil Insurance Corporation, how kind [...]
parenthood: the ultimate book censor?
Posted in family, literature, tagged abigail, family, motherhood, reading on 09.4.2008 | Leave a Comment »
Like many parents, I no longer have a lot of desire to read books in which children are harmed. My imagination is deficient and puny in every area except this one, where it works unstoppably for eighteen or twenty hours a day; I really don’t need any help from no thriller.
I just read this [...]
little grown-up girl
Posted in family, photos, tagged abigail, family, motherhood, photos on 09.2.2008 | Leave a Comment »
Abigail seems so big and grown-up lately. She’s always been big (okay, huge) for her age, but lately she seems so much older. Dan went away for less than a week, and in just that short amount of time my mom and I noticed so many changes.
For one, she chatters all the time [...]
