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Lucas

A shameless brag or a plea for reinforcements?

30 June 2009 Lucas

I’ve taken to calling Lucas “Sir Edmund Hillary” because there is nothing that he won’t try to climb. Why? Because it’s there. I’ve gotten quite laissez-faire about chasing him off the stairs. I don’t rush to take him off the kitchen table any more. (But I do keep the kitchen chairs stacked on the opposite [...]

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Talk to me about sleep training

14 May 2009 Lucas

First, I loved your comments on my last post, where I asked you your thoughts about letting my five- and seven-year-old boys walk around the block together alone. For now, we’ve decided to hold off, and I swear it’s not because my mother called me up the night I posted it and more or less [...]

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In which Lucas makes his preference clear

27 April 2009 Baby days

I was just settling into the comfy chair with Lucas, preparing for our regular bedtime routine. He’ll nurse for a few minutes and then I’ll cuddle him to sleep – the third child truly is spoiled rotten. I’d just pulled him in close when I realized I’d completely forgotten to give him his after-dinner bottle. [...]

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The not-yet-toddling menace

16 April 2009 Lucas

I am finding this particular stage of Lucas’s development exhausting. No, really? EXHAUSTING. Also exasperating, challenging, and frustrating. (And, to be fair, delightful and charming and wonderful.) But mostly, exhausting. He stubbornly refuses to walk on his own, even though he can stand with no problem, has walked across the room unaided, and can perch [...]

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I am so farked

13 April 2009 Lucas

This third child will be the one that does all the frightful things that the first two never did, won’t he? Now that poor old mom is too worn down to properly fight back. Standing on the peanut butter jar (!) so he can reach deeper into the pantry. He’s all of 14 months old [...]

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Darth Lucas

4 April 2009 Lucas

So he doesn’t walk and he barely talks, but Lucas does a wicked Darth Vader impression: I’m sure Lucas’s affinity to Darth Vader has nothing to do with Beloved’s habit of saying, “Luke, I am your father.” (This was filmed on a Flip video camera, circulated by the Motherhood as part of the Sisterhood of [...]

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In which we talk about Lucas’s other favourite boob

23 March 2009 Lucas

Baby’s first smile, first laugh. The first time baby slept through the night. Baby’s first food, and the first meal baby feeds to himself. Baby’s first tentative steps, and baby’s first words. All milestones worthy of marking on the calendar, of noting, of celebrating. And now, finally, after a YEAR of waiting — baby’s first [...]

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Go ahead, try to *not* smile!

27 February 2009 Lucas

Playing with Flickr’s (relatively) new video sharing option. Aren’t baby laughs the best? (Lucas and I had just picked up Tristan from a birthday party when we discovered that balloons are the funniest. thing. ever! The boys were laughing so hard I had to get out of the van and catch it on video.)

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Day one of begging for votes, and already she’s exploiting the kids

13 February 2009 It IS all about me

This is what happens at the intersection of “Oh crap, I need to take a photo today!” and “Oh crap, how am I ever going to get enough people to vote to send me to BlogHer?” How could you deny this cutie? If you haven’t already, pleasevote for me!!!!

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A love letter to Lucas, Age 1

8 February 2009 Baby days

My darling baby Lucas, Has it only been a year you have been in our lives? Has it already been a year? How can both of those things seem so surprising at the same time? You, my third son, my beautiful baby boy, are one year old today. I don’t have the words to tell [...]

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