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Tips, tricks and adventures in parenting two kids.

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Happy Nine Month Day, Hayden Dear

Hayden is nine months old today! What a big boy!

In honor of Hayden’s “nine month day,” we have . . . Hidden Talents of Parenting in the First Nine Months!

  • To know when he’s been quiet too long, knocked something important over or about to fall.
  • To hold him and still use two hands to feed the cat, wash dishes and cook dinner. (Not all three at once, though; maybe in the next 9 months.)
  • To jump into the Love Sack safely while holding him and not snapping his neck.
  • To “wrestle” in a vaguely convincing way and make Hayden “uuuuTHE WINNA!!!”
  • To really wrestle him down to change his diapers, dress him, cut his nails or clean his nose—including holding him with both legs and an arm.
  • To appreciate the struggle—don’t always save him from his frustrations. Just sometimes.

And now the short list of Things You Can Never Get Enough Of:

  • Patience
  • Time
  • Hands
  • Confidence
  • Ways to show him how much you love him

Hayden adds “000000000000000000000000.” Got a little too close to the keyboard with him.

Today is interesting—it’s like the end of the third trimester of our married life. The first 9 months was just Ryan and me, the second nine months we were expecting and this last nine months we’ve had baby Haydie.

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Reunited

This is for Mom and Jaime. I’ve never heard the Peaches & Herb song, but I have heard them sing it quite a few times.

Ryan got back from Chicago last night after Hayden went to bed. So tonight they were . . .

Reunited and it feels so good!


Look at how Hayden looks at Daddy—he loves Daddy!

OOH STINKY FEET! Hayden loves that game. He starts laughing when you sniff his feet.

Happy all ’round!

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Pictures and a picnic

I went just a little crazy with the photos today… I took like 20 something. Here are three:

Hayden “pulled” himself up to standing using the wall. I don’t know how.


Then I fell in love with his new outfit, so I decided to try some “professional” type photos. Not much success, but here’s a pretty cute one:

Then we met Lindsey and Sadie in the park for a picnic lunch (mostly for the adults; very delicious!) and play time. Okay, so play time was mostly for the adults, too, since we just stuck around the swings and talked.

I talk a lot. I tried to blame this on the fact that, other than the check out girl at Walgreen’s, I hadn’t had a face-to-face interaction with a person that can talk back in almost three days. I probably talk a lot anyway. Lindsey is terribly patient!

Here are Haydie and Sadie playing together. This was about 5 seconds before I discovered Hayden was eating handfuls of seeds from the cement, and not liking them, either.

It was a great way to spend a lovely afternoon! Other than the seeds, of course.

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Trick or . . . trick….

I’m a bad trick-or-treatee. Door answerer. Whatever. Sometimes I don’t even say anything to the kids when I answer the door. Oh well.

Hallowe’en pictures!

The Unambiguously Scottish Trio
Hayden’s costume: Mini Kilt
(it’s really a tartan scarf and a “sporan” I knit up)

And a truly scary picture:


And on that note: hope you had a happy Hallowe’en!

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Hooray!

Hooray! I won! Thank you for all your help! I win two books (well, three if you count the one that I won from eComXpo) and am entered into the final four to be judged on merit. I don’t expect to win (I think week one’s winner was very good and there are a few good entries this week), but I’m just excited. I got 633 unique views—I think that’s my lucky number. It was the time that Ryan was born (PM) and it was my house number when I met Ryan. Plus, I only won by 3, so thanks to everyone that visited my article. I’ll get those links all over the page down ASAP.

Hayden’s excited for me, too (you need to watch this more than once to get it to work right):

Yesterday he learned to clap! I was able to catch the tail end of his third attempt. He seems to like it—it’s making noise!

Finally, I think you should go to Google if you’re “White & Nerdy” and a fan of Weird Al. He’s back—with a vengeance. Sadly, my conscience says I can’t link to it since there are like 1 or 2 inappropriate parts. But you can find it yourself.

It’s a parody of “Ridin'” by Chamillionaire. Reminds me of the time I asked Hayden how he wanted to ride (ie backpack or frontpack). I looked at my pasty white baby and immediately knew the right answer, “Mama, I wanna ride till I die.”

Maybe that part’s only funny to people who really did grow up (in but not of the) gangsta.

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A stand-up kind of guy

I finally filmed Hayden in the process of standing for all to enjoy.

Hard to believe he’s getting so big! He now spends quite a bit of time trying to stand up while holding on with only one hand. It’s so strange to think that he’ll be running around soon!

And, of course, please read my article!