Ivy gave me a nice Mother’s Day present a day early (in addition to the lovely InStyler hair gear 🙂 ) – she began to crawl! She had been up on all fours rocking back and forth for a couple weeks prior, and was just oooohhhh so close to taking those first “steps,” but while […]

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We let Ivy bang on the laptops sometimes, to entertain herself. Well, apparently she clawed the “M” key off of Joey’s laptop, and managed to partially swallow it before we knew what was going on. Poor thing was VERY cranky immediately. I swept her mouth after first noticing the key was missing and didn’t feel […]

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I think Ivy is getting the concept of “this thing belongs HERE.” She has been pulling my glasses off my face for as long as she’s been coordinated enough to grab them. A few days ago, though, I noticed that after she played with them, rather than tossing them aside or me taking them away, […]

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I’m not really “concerned” about this right now, but did want to write about it… Back in December, I had an EKG done as part of my overall checkup, to replace the hypertension meds I had been on since delivery (techtalk: I was on methyldopa, which is the only kind they could prescribe during pregnancy… […]

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Even though we’ve got two dogs now, I found myself still looking through the available dogs at the HSPCA and the city/county shelters. Each time Joey and I went to the HSPCA, we both wanted to just bring everything home with us. Well, I decided to sort of compromise, and signed up as a volunteer […]

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I can’t believe it’s been just over 9 months since Ivy was born. That’s a whole other pregnancy, timewise! She is such a terrific, awesome, cute, charming, happy, smiley, beautiful little girl! Every day, we are greeted with her dimpled smiley face in the morning, as she is happily talking to herself in her pack-n-play. […]

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OK, so most folks with a fairly good familiarity with the internet have heard (if not necessarily heard of by name) “LOLCats.” Well, today as part of an effort to diffuse a brewing flamewar on one of my favorite websites, someone posted a link to the LOLCat Bible. I just about died reading it. This […]

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The past week I have had major doggie brain. Some of it has been full of sadness. Some has been full of happy memories. Some has been full of ghosts born of old habits and expectations (that Tootsie would be home jumping up and down in the front door, excited to see me return from […]

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Today, around 5:45pm I got a text message from Joey, saying simply “bad news.” I called him when I got downstairs to pick me up after work, and he informed me that Tootsie was no longer with us. She had bolted out the door when he came home – part of her usual “happy to […]

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I have been a regular participant at the iVillage bulletin board aimed at women who were (originally) expecting in August of 2008. Last May or so, Joey & I had lunch with a couple of other women from the August group. We’ve all since had our babies. Well, Amie (one of the mothers) and I […]

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