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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
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9:19 pm - can we be any more cali-rific?
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This is the picture that will haunt me when she is 15, and we live somewhere terminally uncool (like, anywhere a 15 year old has to reside) and she sees just how much of a cali girl she was. palm trees and all. I can hear the accusations and whining now...
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| Thursday, August 21st, 2008
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8:47 pm - holy shit
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I was so not ready for this...not -quite- yet.
Little Bit is 2 days shy of 11 months. She's been cruising holding on for a while, even sideways, but didn't seem really ready to go it alone. Our house is toast.
Oddly enough, she is wearing her Level One Human character sheet shirt for the first time today, so I guess she wanted to prove she had leveled into it. :)
Dearest, darling one--
Today I clapped and laughed and kissed until I cried. You left out the last one. There will still be lots of times that you will look for my skirt to hold onto, but today you took big, bold steps into being your own person. It tears my heart in two, and makes me the happiest, proudest woman alive.
I know, sappy. You'll get it, someday.
Love, Mama
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| Saturday, August 9th, 2008
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9:31 pm - who knows all of what goes on in her lovely head...
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but I can tell you some, just by watching, and it blows my mind.
In the backseat of the car today, little bit was sleeping as we drove to the store. Since an impromptu nap is always a good thing, we did drive thru for a drink. Annika woke up while we were in line, and looked around a bit. We handed her the baby doll that has been facinating her for the last few days, and waited for her to be unhappy for being awake in the back seat, strapped down and alone.
But she didn't squawk, because she wasn't alone. Bit spent the next 10 minutes quietly "talking" to the doll; her inflection went up and down, she was using a soft voice, and the syllables changed. She held the doll upright, looking into her face, and part way through gave the doll a kiss; then she put her in her lap and patted her head.
Can I just say good lord?!? Ok, maybe I need to read up on my baby books, and ordinary children do that at 3 weeks, and they all do it eventually, but this just happened and I was amazed. She discovered that the doll is a baby, and called it that, and is now treating it like one.
Annika, my love...you freak out Mama. It's all good, but it causes a bit of emotional vertigo when I get to quietly watch in the mirror from the front seat.
(since Andrew had already stolen the first picture, even though it was my favorite, I'll satiate the cute jones with another!)
*mwhah!* love you too, little bit!
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| Friday, August 1st, 2008
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10:26 pm - baby-leveling (with a healthy dose of the cute)
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| Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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9:34 pm - sweet jesus....
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home after 5 weeks, 5 states and 6 beds. bebe seems to recognize it. i'm going to sleep, so when she wakes up at 8 EDT i'll be ready.
will i be ready? oh, hell no. but, leland and candice will join us for snow and falafel drive in tomorrow to celebrate really being back!
a little cute to tide you over...
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| Thursday, July 24th, 2008
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10:00 pm - 10 months today.
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She's officially longer than a school year, and infinitely more complicated and beautiful.
To my so big Little Bit:
I've been so bad at writing because the last month or two have been chaos for many reasons. However, you are my biggest blessing always, and I can't believe that I am lucky enough to know you. Annika, you are almost walking, a madwoman in the walker, clapping, waving, imitating sounds, pulling up, and a tool-using monkey. This time you sussed out that if you stood on one of the toys in her playpen that you could see over the edge. Such genius!
Little bit, you have now been sick, having picked up a rotavirus in the pool in Florida. I've been a wreck, but you have been so good that Daddy's family thought I was a nervous nellie. I kept saying you didn't seem right, were fussy, were tempermental, and they all thought you were good. A week plus of fevers, green poop and sore tummy later I think you are over it, with only the diaper rash remaining.
Dearest, darling girl. You are my heart, (almost) walking outside of my body. If looking back you ever doubt my love and devotion, because I don't have time to write in this about your life, just remember that I was glorying in every second of living it with you.
Love, Mama.
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| Saturday, June 21st, 2008
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11:00 pm - rain? thunder? lightning?
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dude. i live in california. it is the 21st of june. i thought andrew was a moron and turned the sprinkler on at noon and on the roof of the patio. (sorry, babe.) but it was 45 seconds of really hard rain...it made the smell of summer rain that i love.
then when we went to santa cruz for a very lovely wedding (more on that next post) there were 3 lightning flashes, sprinkles, and even thunder...annika's first. very cool.
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| Friday, June 20th, 2008
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10:56 pm - thoughts from rocking in the dark and the heat
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| Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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12:19 pm - and now...
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| Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
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12:37 pm - and now...
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| Monday, June 16th, 2008
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12:25 pm - and now...
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| Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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12:22 pm - and now...
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| Saturday, June 14th, 2008
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12:21 pm - and now...
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| Friday, June 13th, 2008
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12:55 pm - and now...
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| Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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12:09 pm - and now...
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| Monday, June 9th, 2008
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12:08 pm - and now...
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| Sunday, June 8th, 2008
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12:08 pm - and now...
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| Saturday, June 7th, 2008
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12:18 pm - and now...
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| Friday, June 6th, 2008
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10:08 pm - this would be more fun with visual aids...
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12:12 pm - and now...
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