Archive for September, 2006

The Two Big Bears

We went to the mountains over the weekend… I could not help but think of Thoreau and his sentence “I went to the woods to live deliberately…” This weekend, I went to the mountains to a cabin wiht a hot tub, pool table, and balcony to live deliberately.
With 6 adults and 3 babies, the opportunity [...]

Bugaboo Stroller Review

When I first saw this stroller, I gasped. I thought it was super cool and beautiful. The first one I saw was orange — a highly unusual color for a stroller! Used by Madonna and shown on Sex and the City, this stroller is extremely popular. It’s simplistic design and unusual colors make it [...]

Thinking of Azaleas

My husband worked a lot of the day on a recent weekend day and that left me as the sole parent for the day. He would have to work the next 3 nights and that would leave me as the sole parent then, too.
It had been many days since I’d claimed a moment to myself. [...]

She Says…

Today the little one said “helicopter” and “squirrel.” She said it perfectly — not like a baby. This child-rearing business is wild. I tried using baby signs with her and there’s not much point, because she says what she wants to say.
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Language Acquisition

She turned a year in August. She says: car, da for okay, na for no, mama, dada, balloon, light, tree, sky, hot, sit, uh-oh, house, jenny, hi, bye, bird, fan, nose, baby signs for milk. Witnessing the acquisition of language in a human.
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