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Category Archives: Mark
Our Life Is About To Change Forever
(No, I’m not pregnant. Come on, people.) Last week, Mark crawled (not official on-all-fours crawling but still crawled) from our office/playroom to the bedroom. Ellie yelled to me in the kitchen, “Hey! He came to find me in the bedroom!” … Continue reading
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Music Lessons
First, play the tambourine. (Just don’t bash your nose in while you’re at it.) Next, Ellie will demonstrate how to play the harmonica (a new skill!). Finally, she’ll show you how to play the kazoo but when you don’t learn … Continue reading
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Don’t Call Me. I’ll Call You.
It’s a good thing both Nik and I were math nerds in high school because otherwise, we’d have some squabbling on our hands over just one TI-85 calculator to play with. Thanks to high school upper-level math classes for both … Continue reading
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Why “Eat, Play, Sleep” Doesn’t Work For Me (and our kids)
A fairly common piece of parenting advice for new moms (particularly when their babies are newborns), is that their babies should be on an “Eat, Play, Sleep” schedule. They should nurse, then have awake time, then fall asleep on their … Continue reading
Port Discovery With Yiayia
Yesterday, Ellie, Mark, and I joined Yiayia for a fun morning at Port Discovery, a children’s museum in downtown Baltimore. We started in the tots room, for kids under three. Ellie loved the sand box! Then we moved on over … Continue reading
The Practice of Assigning Positive Intent
I first read about this life-giving practice here. A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. Proverbs 15:1 A discipline I’ve been trying to adopt recently has been the practice of “assigning positive intent.” Basically … Continue reading
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My Sleeping Tummy-Loving Boy
He’s getting so grown-up, I can hardly stand it!
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Nursing – The Perfect Travel Food
to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week 2013 at a park in Arlington, VA, 8/4/2013 Traveling with a baby can be stressful. Routines are disrupted and environments are unfamiliar. We recently spend two weeks in Montana, a trip that involved a long … Continue reading
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Books Are Good For Everything – Even Teething!
Who doesn’t love Sheep In A Jeep? 🙂
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The Honeymoon Is Over
Mark is on the move. He also has object permanence now so he’s not so easily distracted if I take something away from him. He has started crying in protest if he really wants it! Today, Ellie was crying because … Continue reading
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Salmon and Souvlaki 