As part of my ongoing initiation into parenthood, Tuesday night I was humbled by a 5-pound mound of plastic. It’s called the ExerSaucer, and it nearly undid Simon’s Auntie Jen and mother in the assembly. I expected the ExerSaucer Assembly to be annoying and confusing the same way build-it-yourself furniture is. I was wrong; it […]
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We’ve been waiting to hear about Ian and Christine’s new baby ever since Ian called us from the hospital 36 hours ago! When we hadn’t heard anything by midnight tonight, we figured that we would just hear about the birth in the morning. But for whatever reason Jessica couldn’t fall asleep tonight and just happened […]
An update on my friend Jen Bortel’s baby, Sam. After having open-heart surgery on December 22, Sam went back into the OR on Monday to have a pacemaker fitted. He came out of that surgery well, was off the ventilator by the time he left the OR and–best of all–he came home today. Way to […]
Tuesday, January 2 was my first day back at work from maternity leave. Besides saying hi and chatting with my colleagues–many of whom I missed–my first order of business was to find out when/if my friend and colleague Jen had had her baby yet. She was expecting to have a boy in late December. Jen […]
Man, we’ve seen a lot of babies this year. A lot. Literally. Like, if there were a vacant lot down the street and we all dropped our babies off there it would be really, really full. And then we’d all go to jail for child endangerment. But what I’m trying to get across is that […]
Simon just had a playmate born! This morning, at 7:29 a.m., our friends Lucy and Malcolm welcomed baby Colin into the world. Lucy had a pretty easy labor and delivery, which she thoroughly deserved having weathered a rough pregnancy with grace and humor. Better yet, Colin was due December 24. His early-but-full-term arrival means that […]