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Kai's Birth Story
Everyone in the childbirth class we took at our Birth Center has been sending out birth stories to the group as their babies have been born. We were the last ones to go, and I just wrote this up and...
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(I wrote this over a period of several days, which is apparently the only way I can find time to write a long blog post right now. Please excuse any temporal/tense weirdnesses or contradictions in the...
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Recent Achievements
I do wonder how much of a person's personality can be glimpsed when he or she is just a very tiny baby. I know that a lot of baby habits are at least semi-universal, but there still seems to be things...
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August Activities
Unsurprisingly, we have kept pretty busy lately! Big projects of late: *Working on Kai's bedroom. I have a long long post I've mostly written about his room and the Montessori philosophy behind it;...
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The Best Christmas Ever
By last Christmas, we knew we would be moving to a house in Oakland soon. Our apartment, TimeCube, was amazing, but it was unquestionably a deathtrap in terms of small children. (To say nothing of...
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5 Months
One of the things about having a baby that I didn't expect (but totally should have, given my years of teaching experience) is the gradual way that things change. I think to myself: "Oh, when did he...
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On Outdoor Kindergartens, and some Montessori Musings
This morning, this video came up on a natural playscape discussion group I belong to:"Outdoor Preschool: Norway" on YouTube Please watch this if you have the time and have children, think you might...
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Strange Bedfellows; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Hating Cosleeping
Kai happily playing on his own bed in his own room, post-nap I've been very lucky in my limited time as a parent so far. Most of the things I theorized about what having a baby would be like have been...
View ArticleMiro Zephyr's Birth Story: Part One (Context and pre-Labor)
So, let's talk about how this kid finally made his appearance! This is quite long. I loved reading birthing stories heavy on the details. I found having a lot of very real, very detailed information...
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Miro Zephyr's Birth Story: Part Two (Labor and Birth!)
PART TWO: Labor and Birth!(See lots of photos to illustrate this story in this flickr set)Colin got back and I was out of the shower. We settled down in the nerditorium and put an episode of Sherlock...
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