Santa brought Joe a box set of Montessori toys, designed to encourage him to grasp things and develop his curiosity and hand-eye coordination so that he might live a long and happy life, grabbing things …
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how to play
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new old things
The other day I said to Morrison, this year I want one hundred presents under the tree. I want the presents to cascade from the tree into other rooms like we’ve suffered a terrible leak …
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WHERE IS THE DRAGON
When choosing a Wubbanub for one’s child — which is baby word for pacifier with stuffed animal attached to it, another in a long list of words I never knew and also never knew I’d …
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the Baby Gym
There are things called baby gyms that you put your baby underneath to stimulate their brains, and if you DON’T then your baby will grow up to be a murderer or at least have little …
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Crying Practice
Over the last few weeks and months I have ingested many apps and blogs and articles and message boards, led to each after Googling something like ‘IS BABY OKAY?’ or ‘NORMAL TO FEEL LIKE BABY …
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The Wizard’s Wife
For a few months during lockdown, every Saturday, Morrison led a group of our friends’ kids through WIZARD SCHOOL, a part learning part D&D zoom adventure, in which the kids solved puzzles and were treated …
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The Crib
Last week we hit the THIRD TRIMESTER which means that in a VERY SHORT AND YET WHAT STILL FEELS LIKE A LARGE AMOUNT OF TIME, the baby will live OUTSIDE my body, and we will …
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not funny
Like a month ago, I had a very good? very bad? idea? Let’s just simply call it an ‘idea’ to make virus shaped cookies with frowning faces and give to friends. And in the time …
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The Bag
For SOME reason I was bummed yesterday (pregnancy or pandemic? Fun Game) so we started putting together a baby registry to lift my spirits, AND IT WORKED. It was mostly a game of Wait, What …
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Meet the Pod
Social Pod: (n): a small group of individuals who have achieved the required quarantine state, and therefore know they are not infected with coronavirus, and THEREFORE can begin to socialize in person Our pod: Morrison, …