Let a Sleeping Baby Lie. Except Smoosh Her Face a Little, Just For Kicks.

January 11, 2010
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Have you ever noticed that right after a baby falls asleep, you can smoosh her face around pretty much indiscriminately without bothering her even a little?
What, you haven’t tried that?
Facial plasticity is just one of the many things I’m discovering the second baby around — Claudia, the baby whom I can face-smoosh, head-stand, shot-put, and [...]

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Cookie Cutter Guilt

December 3, 2009
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Let me just start by admitting: I try to impress 4-year olds.
A couple of weeks ago we hosted one of those kids who makes preschool look like graduate school. She’s well-behaved and articulate — a great little role model for my, um, independent three-year old.
So of course I decided that on our first playdate [...]

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Blackalicious

November 30, 2009
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Fern got this cute book on our last vacation — Pinkalicious — about a girl who eats too many pink cupcakes and turns, well, pink. Except she couldn’t leave it at that — Blackalicious beckoned.

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I Wanna Make Banana Love

November 26, 2009
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Fern is a crazy cook (see “cranberries, pickled”) and today, schooled me in the right way to make a Banana Bread Pie.

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Princess Frida

November 24, 2009
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Let’s talk about lying to our children.
No, I’m talking about how Fern thinks that Frida Kahlo is one of the Disney princesses, how Dora is in reality young Frida, and her brother Diego is Diego Rivera.
Or how she says “This means ‘I love you’ in sign language” while making the universal bulls-horns sign for “cuckold.” [...]

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