Sunrise Ruby

more waddle than walk
stretch marks fan across my belly
the thirty-sixth week

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Happy 15 months, beautiful boy.  Your childhood is whizzing by at break-neck speed.  I intend to enjoy every last minute of our next few weeks together, while you’re still my oldest and only.

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As mentioned in my last post, Ben has his first cold this week. I guess it’s a cold. He’s not used to being sick, I’m not used to him being sick, and it’s been pretty miserable. He’s not eating much, not drinking much, he’s tired but too uncomfortable to sleep much.  Being 25 weeks pregnant […]

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Ben’s babbling has seemed much more varied and complex during the last week.  Instead of chains of the same syllable over and over again (’da-da-da’ and ‘ga-ga-ga’), he’s combining different syllables into babblings such as ‘da-ga’ and ‘bo-bo-ga’.  He’s making more and more consonant sounds (I occasionally hear a ’sh’ or a ‘t’), and I […]

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Ben turned 1 yesterday!  Last weekend we celebrated with a party of family and a few close friends.  In his first journey around the sun, our little bub has gone from a tiny 5-pound preemie to a whopping 25-pounder who’s a little tall for his age.  He’s acquired the ability to eat and breathe at […]

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“The work we are doing as parents is often on the scale of picking up toys or cleaning scraped knees, yet it is joyous and vitally important.  Our children will shape the world to come, and especially at this precarious time on earth, what is more vital than raising sane children who are compassionate and […]

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