Archive for the ‘Milestones’ Category

a glutton for avocado

Baby led weaning is going spectacularly. We hit the one month mark of solids and our confidence started to waver that this way of feeding him was even going to work because he didn’t seem to actually be consuming much. He would gnaw a little and when a piece went in his mouth his facial [...]

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crawling was so last week

{as were pants.}
PS: The picture is from this weekend. We’re a little more subdued than this these days.

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there will always be more

Dear OBaby,
You were born seven months ago today.
You would think that after seven of these month-birthday letters (ok, I think I forgot one somewhere in there) I would run out of things to say about how and why I love you, but I have not.
This month, sweet boy, you are downright playful. You can sit [...]

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then he played a piano duet with Sir Elton

You heard it here first:
OBaby’s first words were “Lady Gaga“. The “Lady” is really faint, but it’s in there. Check around :37 seconds.

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broccoli for the win

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take one: rice

It’s been slow going  in the food department so far, but that is more than okay. The banana was a (squishy) no-go, the peas didn’t even make it near the mouth, and the peach was spit back out for the most part.
The rice pretty much went like this:

{shudder}

{What the crap was that?!}
What can I say, [...]

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solids and a (pretty) place to eat them

About a year ago now I was busy perusing the aisles of Babies R Us creating our baby registry (the idea of which I was fully morally opposed to at the beginning but ended up being a really good thing to have). I was overwhelmed by the amount of offensively primary colored baby holding apparatuses [...]

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O Christmas Tree

(Can you believe it took me this long to use that title?)

O look what I found under our Christmas tree!
Best. Present. Ever.
We’ll be spending tonight at Christmas Dinner with Extended O My Family eating ginger cookies, Swedish meatballs, and lutefisk (which is spelled properly regardless of what you think, Firefox). OBaby will meet some half [...]

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