Spiderman and his sidekick
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We went to a Fall Festival this weekend, where I temporarily lost my mind and entered Patter in a 2-and-younger costume contest. Earlier in the afternoon everyone–and I mean everyone–we walked past commented on how SO CUTE SO ADORABLE OH LOOK AT THAT LITTLE SPIDER he was. It got to my head, [...]
[Birth order is] simply a proxy for the actual mechanisms that go on in family dynamics that shape character and personality.
Child and family dynamics is like a chessboard; birth order is like a knight.
Peri Klass’ NyTimes article yesterday throws out a few (and mostly not-so-new) ideas about birth order and the importance of placement amongst a family’s ”constellation [...]
Yesterday Patter said goodbye to Zoe the black dog and our friends in Maryland. He rode the weird WWIIesque shuttles at Dulles airport and snuggled against me in the BabyHawk carrier. He crawled the blue carpet floors at the United gate and flirted with young women eating sandwiches. Then he nursed and slept while we flew across the forests of the east back to the [...]
Horrah for circus pants! Just wait ’til I pair them with the polka dot shirt and stick a jester hat on him for Halloween.
Why yes. I do coordinate my hiking outfits with the carrier du jour. Doesn’t everyone?
He is a grunty, growly little man. Oooh! Oooh!
He wants to see how it works, to touch [...]
