life with preschooler
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Elan & Emry pose with Interfaceflor tiles, June 2011Elan: "Me and Wems are a team."Nana: "That's right! You and Emry are a team, just like your Mama and Dulu [my sister Laura] are a team."Elan: "We're going to be a team always! Until... until we die!"Nana: "Yes, well, let's hope that doesn't happen for a very, very long time."
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Rebecca - - No responsesWe bought a new couch. It was rather an impulse purchase. Now that Mikhail has A New Job, we are celebrating the ability to make purchases again, impulse or not. We knew we needed a new couch sometime soon, though the first month of The New Job, after 18 months of semi-employment, wasn't the ideal time for non-essential purchases. But then I looked on Craigslist "to see what's out there," and found a really great leather couch and a lot of not-great leather couches, the kind with all the slouchy ... more
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Rebecca - - No responsesIs this not the classic picture of summer fun?Blowing bubbles in the backyard on a sunny morning, wearing your dino PJs. Except I took these pictures back in April, but we were in San Diego, so it was like summer.There's something about bubbles. The concentration it takes to blow them.The wonder when it works.The exhilaration of watching them float away.<a ... more
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Rebecca - - No responsesI'm having one of those weeks when it's hard to catch my breath, and my mind is racing in a thousand different directions with all my to-do lists circling.Emry has decided bagels and chunks of hard-crusted challah are his new favorite teething toys.Elan has decided he doesn't want to be parted from me, ever. Certainly not for the babysitter, hardly even for school.It's all a little bit crazy.
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Rebecca - - No responsesWhen you have two sick kids, the big one with a mysterious rash that's appearing in symmetrical patches all around his body, the little one fussier than usual and waking up as soon as his Motrin wears off, it's a good morning to make cinnamon toast. I had it in my head to try Pioneer Woman's Cinnamon Toast the Right Way, and I happened to have the perfect loaf of wheat bread.When your kids are sick, and you're kind of sick yourself, it's especially important to take treat yourself ... more
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Rebecca - - No responsesGrasses, San DiegoYou know those days when we fall and can't manage to right ourselves again? I'm talking metaphorical falls here -- those days when one trip, a hiccup on any other day, turns into a series of cascading slips and slides until we finally land, not gracefully, ending the day with a thump or a bang, or a slow run-down stop, the energy wrung out of us? I had one of those days today. I'm not sure how it started, or why. There's ... more
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Rebecca - - One responseMikhail went on his first (of many to come) business trip last week. It was trial by fire for me: 5 full days, 4 and a half nights of doing the parenting-2-children thing on my own. Luckily for me, my sisters-in-law took Elan for one night so that I had one night and morning of only having Emry, which was quite luxurious and relaxing. I do so love living close to family!Emry in the Ergo, camping, MayThe week went pretty well on the whole. ... more
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Rebecca - - One responseCamping with my boys, May 201110 a.m., heating up my coffee, my house quiet and peaceful. The baby asleep for his morning nap, Elan at school. I've already been out in the windy, sunny morning - dropping Elan off at preschool, him running right in, immediately absorbed by some glue-intensive art activity, walking to the Cheeseboard to buy challah and a morning treat, Emry in the Ergo, dropping my chin into his fuzzy baby head simply to inhale him. Mikhail's at work, exciting and ... more
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Rebecca - - One responseListening to a "Frog and Toad" story, Elan was fascinated by the part when Toad writes his list of things to do today."Here's where Mama writes her to-do lists," I said, showing him my stack of elaborately marked-up print-outs ensconced on a pink clipboard."I wanna turn," he said, grabbing a pen. "How do you spell Go To School?"He wrote it."How do you spell Go Home?"He wrote it."How do you spell Have A Snack?"Things started to degrade. The H and the A migrated way up high; the V and the E ... more
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