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parenting

One last day of infancy

by Her on January 12, 2012

Well. It’s here.
This is the final day of Hannah’s infancy, the final day of what has been the most nourishing year of my life.
My daughter (mine–wow), this one,

is turning one tomorrow.
It would be impossible to contain this year with some eloquent statement.
It’s simple, though. I’m deliriously in love, my heart surges and shatters every single [...]

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The Holly Jolly Folly of Pictures

by Her on December 17, 2011

What? It rhymes.
Eric and I haven’t made up our minds about which Santa/St. Nick/whoever story we want Hannah to know as she gets older. We obviously didn’t have decide this year, so we went full on Santa, and I have to say it has been a blast.
The last few months have been gloomy-ish, and we [...]

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We’re off!

by Her on October 25, 2011

We’re taking off for Denver in a couple hours. It’s supposed to be snowing, and I am ecstatic.
Hannah has been taking off for a while doing these sorts of things:

Our life has been a big motion blur of increased mobility. We needed to babyproof quite a while ago, but we’re nowhere near done. She gives [...]

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We have…

by Her on October 3, 2011

A lot of this.

A smidge of this.

And the most of this.

Every week she learns something new, which thrills me, but also rips at my heart because that means she’s one skill closer to not needing us for everything. She’s long refused to let us hold her bottle, will be on the other side of the [...]

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Clutter we loved: Part 1, Babywearing

by Her on September 24, 2011

All of our baby stuff would have been clutter two years ago, and will eventually be clutter again in a few months, at least until we have a second child.
Before Hannah was born I tweaked the heck out of our baby registry–it was a work in progress before, during, and after our shower. I didn’t [...]

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