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One Month: Happy Birthday, Tate!
Dearest Tate,
You will be one month old tomorrow! We will definitely celebrate, just like we celebrate every day that you’re in our lives.You are such a sweet, sweet boy, and we are incredibly grateful that you arrived safely and in strong health. You were over ten pounds at birth, which means you are quickly outgrowing your newborn diapers and clothes! You have to eat a lot to keep up your weight, and you make the cutest little snorting pig noises when you’re hungry. You’ve also been incredibly strong from day one. You were born with amazing head control, and you seem to have a sixth sense when it… Read More -
An Infant Montessori Environment
When I was pregnant with Henry, I started getting his Montessori nursery ready several months in advance. This time around, we didn’t create a nursery for Tate at all. In this particular instance, it’s not a case of busy-second-time-momness. Really, it was simply a function of the fact that our move-in date for our new house was two weeks after his birth. And then the builders tacked on a few more weeks until they were going to finish our house. Two weeks at our rental house with baby Tate started to turn into a month or more. He still didn’t need a full-blown nursery for a single month (since he … Read More
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Post-Partum Update: Week Three
We are officially three weeks and three days into our new life with Tate (by the time this post runs, we’ll be four weeks into it). I’m happy to report that–so far–it’s much easier this time!I don’t want to jinx myself because we’re still early into this journey and a number of difficulties could still pop up, but compared to where we were as a family 2.5 years ago with Henry, life is going well.Several things are different this time. First, we aren’t going through such a monumental identity shift. We were already parents. We already felt the gravity of what it means to take… Read More
