Category: koala update
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Nettles update: three years
There are three things I know to be true: There are types of self confidence that cannot be bought or therapy’d into you. A kid who is comfortable being choosy about cake is going places. This is going to be one hell of a year. So here we go. The hills are alive… with the…
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Zooey update: eleven months
(See? I told you I’d be up in your face making you crazy-laugh again…) The sun and warmth and faint smell of spring have started to creep up around us and so your winter sniffles and spotty sleep schedule have started to melt away. Literally, right now, we’re on the floor together, you’re up on…
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Zooey update: ten months
There are months when I take a million and a half pictures of you, where I’m up in your face covering you in kisses, where I tickle torture you until you snort. Zooey this was not one of those months because there’s so much going on. But I’ve missed you during late nights at work…
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Zooey update: nine months
On the one hand, you make your opinions known. My baby ate my homework. On the other hand, you have to constantly watch your back. Good sport. And that’s a lesson in how to survive in your family of six.
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I cry over spilled milk and closing chapters.
I had an unexpected emotional trigger when, as I walked toward the office fridge to grab my pumped milk at 18:45, I saw the fridge door already open, with its glistening empty shelves, and the cleaner standing in front, putting new garbage bags in the trash cans. The office manager had emailed earlier that everything…
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Zooey update: eight months
Durable. Is that a weird way to describe you? Persistent. Attentive. Problem-solving. You’re proving more by the day that you can keep up, especially with Nettles. The thought of the pair of you… well… makes me realize I’m going to need to up my game. In the meantime… stay innocently curious, deliciously cute, with that…
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Zooey update: seven months
Zooey, No joke – you’ve made it clear. You may be four, but you’ve given me a run for my money. This doesn’t get easier just because you’ve done something similar before. Going back to work has been extremely difficult – that has always been the case – but your refusal to take a bottle…
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Koala update: seven and a half
Did you hear the one about the kid that wanted to know everything about everything? (Aside from Sid the Science Kid, which you’ve grown out of,) that’s… you. I can’t wait to show you Wikipedia… and to catch you at 11pm with a flashlight under your covers reading in a Wikipedia spiral… Huge milestone this…
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Zooey update: six months
Even after three other kids… Even after seven years of parenting… Even after hundreds, if not thousands, of sleepless nights… It just goes to show you can still be taught. Zooey, every day that you move, grab, scoot, reach, crawl as quickly as you can, clinging to the idea that you can keep up with…
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Bebe update: five and a half years
Bebe, We enjoyed such a great summer together. It was the highlight of the last half year. Your curiosity is my favorite thing I discovered about you. You’ve got to touch and smell and feel and wonder at everything. It’s your age, and it’s you. Wearing a flowery dress to feel pretty, while exploring a…
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Nettles update: two and a half years
Nettles. When you’re not around, I think about you. Randomly. You pop up in my thoughts. I was thinking the other day if you had this much character a year ago. I guess you did but in smaller bites? These days, the bites are getting chunkier (and I don’t mean because of your dinosaur teeth).…
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A dream horse come true.
Because it’s so obvious I’m going to just lay it out, plain and simple. Because it’s so cliche, I’m going to hide behind my hands while doing it, peeking out between two fingers: Once upon a time, there was a little girl who spent her early childhood in the 1980’s, into the 1990’s. It was…