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Monster milk.

August 6, 2009

It’s World Breastfeeding Week! To celebrate, each day this week I’m going to have a breastfeeding-related post.
I admit, this is kind of a cop-out post of me.  I’ve had a horrible day, I’ve had less than four hours of sleep in the last 36 hours, and I just needed something to smile about. This [...]

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Maia on the move

July 24, 2009

On the night of July 21st, I took this picture:

She had been rolling around and playing with her toys, being, as I thought, “so big”.
This morning, I took this picture:
You see, two days ago, Maia decided that laying down is for BABIES, and she’s no longer a baby.  Literally in the space of a moment, [...]

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Another trip to the park

July 22, 2009

The weather this week has been horrible.  I mean, really, it’s supposed to be summer, right?  You’d never know it from the mid-60s temperatures (just because I live in Canada now doesn’t mean I think in Celcius!) and constant cool breezes.
However, the one day where the temperature was more approriately seasonal, if still below average, [...]

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Maia <3s green beans?

July 19, 2009

Thursday morning, we went to a local Farmer’s Market.  One of the stalls was selling giant bags of green beans for $1, so we of course bought one.  As I prepped a bunch for dinner (which I blanched then tossed with roasted garlic and brown butter), I passed one to Maia.  This is the result:

I’m [...]

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The best thing about having a baby with hair…

July 17, 2009

… is this kind of stuff:
She’s starting to kick her feet around and splash when we bathe her, which is just hilarious.  I tried to teach her how to smack her hands onto the water and splash that way, but she didn’t quite get it… she just gave me this blank stare like, “Are you [...]

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Month Five

July 13, 2009

Dear Maia,
Today you turn five months old, and honestly? seriously? it’s only been five months that you’ve been in our lives?  I find it hard to believe, because I truly cannot recall life before you.
Last month, you learned how to roll over onto your belly; this month, you’ve finally learned how to roll from belly [...]

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Disney, daddies, and dumb decisions

July 6, 2009

When I was 17 years old, I ran away from home.
It was the summer before my senior year of high school.  I bought a bus ticket to Michigan, where “the man of my dreams” — we’ll call him Leon — lived.  We had met online several months earlier, and he had come out to visit [...]

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Time to babyproof the house!

July 5, 2009

Oh my goodness…..

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To sleep, perchance to dream…

July 3, 2009

I am so tired.
My head is pounding, my eyes are aching, and my jaw hurts.  The last, if you know me, is indicative of the fact that I have a brutal headache.
It’s almost 3am and I type this one-handed through a burning haze of frustrated tears.  The other hand? It’s carrying Maia. She’s crying, too.
I’ve [...]

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The Highs and the Lows (or, accepting that it ain’t all roses)

July 1, 2009

I’ve documented a lot about my little girl here.  I’ve shared some of the highest highs, but I’ve avoided many of the lowest lows.  It’s not that I don’t want to talk about them; I do.  There are times I’ve felt so overwhelmed at how much work this motherhood thing requires that I’ve sobbed while [...]

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