I have my own (minor) issues around food, and I watch myself with some (minor) dread and fascination as, in the early morning breakfast hours, I find myself clenching my jaw and wanting to insist, dammit, that Piper have Just One Bite of the cheesy-eggs I spent 5 whole minutes making for her. Piper, meanwhile, [...]
Kate recently came to me to ask about an entry in her online calendar that she hadn’t put in. I had utterly forgotten about it, but when I looked at it, I remembered that about a year ago, I had, in fact, written it into her calendar and not told her about it. It read: [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday is chasing me down the island, south, into today Last night’s ill-advised late dinner turned into a series of IEDs as I drove towards morning and dreams of guilt and frustration woke me, head aching, long before the hissing alarm but the two bellows I left breathing in the bedroom are still facing the [...]
Piper’s just today crossed some development threshold: she’s smiling in a way that seems almost, barely, on purpose. Or maybe it’s “vaguely in response to external stimulus” … or maybe Bob is the cognition-fairy. The smiling is way far from consistent, mind you, but there’s noticeably more of it than yesterday. Either that or all [...]