Tag: bebe

  • Bebe update: Twenty months

    Bebe, I’m starting to lose count of how many months you are. We’re pretty close to the end of the month-by-month thing. I’m very ready for a two-year-old you but but there are a few things I’m not ready to let you grow out of yet… The face you make when you do ‘foo’ on…

  • Bebe update: Twelve months.

    Good night, beautiful little Bebe. I’m looking at you after you’ve fallen asleep at my chest. You’re exhausted after an active day in the warm April sun over Jerusalem. Your eyes are shut and your forehead is glistening with sweat from our body heat together. You’re an amazing creature. It’s been a year since you…

  • Time flies when you’re pulling yourself across tiles.

    One day, you’re nursing your brand-newborn in your bed at home. The next, (or 5.5 months later) you turn around for under a minute only to turn back and realize your baby is not where you left her, but rather pulling herself at a steady pace across the floor, reaching into the bottom shelf, pulling…