A Day of Firsts

Today, Henry:
1) fed himself Bluebell Vanilla Bean with a spoon. (Turns out he likes ice cream after all! Mama’s been working on this one, surprisingly enough.)
2) discovered that it is incredibly fun to take Mama’s clean underwear out of the laundry basket and place it between stacking bowls, over and over again.
3) finally [...]

Question of the Day

Who asks for a raise immediately after being reprimanded? I really want to know the answer to this question. Who?

Letter to Henry Wallace, 12 months

Dear Henry,
This month I am late with your letter because, one, we celebrated your birthday like crazy rockstars last weekend, and two, I want to include your stats from your 12-month well-check today: 25.1 lbs (75-90th percentile), 31 inches (75-90th percentile), noggin circumference of 48.7 cm (95-97th percentile). Big thinker, you are!
This is such [...]

And I Thought it Was All About Angles and Calendars…

http://icanhaz.com/BoyOrGirl

Riding Alone

I aspire to be like Lenore Skenazy, but I anticipate this being the hardest lesson I will learn as a parent:
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/why-i-let-my-9-year-old-ride-subway-alone

Happy First Birthday, My Love

Newsletter to come after the party dies down and the visitors have gone, but for now, a bit from one of my favorite poems:
Each thing
I did, then, I did for the first
time, touched the flesh of our flesh,
brought the tiny mouth to my breast,
he drew the avalanche of milk
down off the mountain, I felt as [...]

Making Love to PB&J

Our Adventures with Kelp Powder

Since Henry started solid foods, I’ve more or less tried to follow the Super Baby Food diet. Around month 8, you introduce kelp powder, which is good for several things, mainly glandular health. The natural iodine acts as a radiation antagonist, which is comforting when your pediatrician makes lead tests a standard part of [...]

Beware the Crab, I Think He Knows…

Henry has a new favorite book: Squishy Turtle and Friends. He loves this book so much that even when it’s in another room, I can recite one of his three favorite pages, and he flashes the biggest grin and starts cracking up. This is “Beware the crab, I think he knows just how [...]

Capitol 10K

Last Sunday Henry cheered for me in the Capitol 10K. He is the reason why I ran it in 45:20 (despite the brutal 15th St. and Winstead hills and the pouring rain) and got 11th in my age group, 64th overall. I used to be such a stress case about my races until [...]