Archive for October, 2009

Her Father’s Daughter

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Scratching as Diversion Originally uploaded by qBaz Note that while she’s found that she likes to put her hand on the texture of the cosleeper’s mesh wall, she has not yet figured out how to use that hand to pop her pacifier back into her mouth. That’s occasionally a source of some frustration to her. [...]

Piper Notes #2: not our monkey, cooing, Governors’ Island

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Piper-Notes-2 Here’s the next installment of our Piper Notes. Included in today’s installment: A failed attempt to get a laugh out of her using bathroom humor, and our lamentations that she is not our trained monkey A review of her accomplishments in the last six weeks, interspersed with random coos, cries, and snorts, painstakingly hand-collected [...]

Jargon: “Hitting the snooze button”

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

When Piper’s slowly ascending from the depths of sleep (and given the horrors inherent in getting the bends, a slow ascent is advisable) she’ll sometimes squawk a few times. Kate or I will wait a minute, and then go into the bedroom. If her eyes are open wide, she’s up. If they aren’t open, or [...]