Tummy time.
At 2-3 months, the pediatrician told us, Ethan should be spending 15 minutes a day doing “tummy time.” He doesn’t like it one bit. Very frustrating. He bawls after about… 23 seconds. Except when he gets to do his tummy time on someone else’s tummy. That he likes.
The things that change us.
In the three months that I’ve been on maternity leave, I’ve changed. I felt it happen in those first few days. Just back from the hospital, sitting on the deck in the sunshine eating lunch and drinking a beer with Den and brand new Ethan…and I felt as though I was stepping back into myself … Continue reading
Two months. And, what you think matters, doesn’t.
Ethan is 2 months old today. It is beyond cliché to say the time has flown by, but of course it has. And around the curves and edges of this strange, structureless, precious time has flowed a changing brew of wordless emotions. The tiny, miraculous preciousness of the newborn first weeks. “Miracle” is one of … Continue reading
Oh dog!!
Before Ethan was born, we worried about how Loki would respond to him. Loki has always been frightened of kids. But Loki has not only accepted the new baby as one of her pack, she’s now taking an interest in other people’s babies too. (Babies are okay, but she still doesn’t care for children…yet.) Fortunately … Continue reading
Black and Sun 