Sunrise Ruby

Today is Ben’s due date. The date is bittersweet for me.
He seems not to have noticed–he drained his bottle like a champ this morning and then peed his pants like normal. Afterwards he had a productive tummy time session wherein he raised his cute little head up, and then he spent some time […]

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An IM conversation with a friend this afternoon has me thinking about motherese, the modified form of speech that mothers and other caretakers sometimes use to talk to infants. Some researchers have suggested that motherese aids in children’s cognitive development and helps them acquire language, but motherese isn’t universal–in some Samoan tribes, for example, […]

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Ben is 6 weeks old today.  He’s beautiful, and we’re totally in love with him :)  He’s already lifting his head during tummy time–I can’t wait for his first smiles.  His due date is coming up at the end of this week.  Crazy to think that I could still be pregnant right now, and that […]

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I had thought to try to embed Gallery2 into this site, but after much frustration with the WPG2 plugin, I decided that full integration isn’t needed.
Instead, I’ve manually added a link to the gallery at the top of the page, and a random image in the sidebar.

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Welcome to our new website.  Our old site was based on MoinMoin but we’ve decided to use WordPress for this one and shift the emphasis from static content to articles.  In addition to these posts, we have a photo gallery.  I’m still working on integrating the two areas of the site together, so just use […]

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