Archive for the tag 'Aurora'

I’m Not Afraid

Aurora has grown up around our dog, Kaia. Kaia scares strangers, because she looks all feral and wolfy, despite the fact that she’s an elderly marshmallow with fur, and pretty much incapable of aggression to humans. In her nearly 14 years of life, I’ve only ever heard her growl at a person three times. She [...]

Milk and Love 4 — Update

Haleema, Aurora and Kestrel’s milk sibling, is growing up. Just like they are. It’s kind of odd to contemplate; even though Haleema is older than Aurora, in my brain, she’s still that baby. This is sort of a double gutpunch. I just posted about freaking out about Aurora growing up, and this just makes it [...]

Shorter Years

Today, I packed up all the diapers, to send them to my sister in law Ria, and her new baby Arianna. Aurora has been accident-free for ages now, and last week, decided that it was time for big girl panties. In fact, when we went to the beach and she got damp, necessitating a change [...]

Playing in the Sacramento River

Last year, we let Rowan and Kestrel go to Nana and Grandpa Allen’s for a week. Without us. It was a huge step for me, as a mother, to let my babies go, even to people who I knew were going to take fabulous care of them. But I also recognized that it was time [...]

Me n My Girl

Aurora’s Two!

We decided to keep Little Miss Northern Light’s second birthday fairly low-key. I know that a lot of parents make other choices, and that’s totally fine. Considering that all three of our children’s birthdays are jammed together over a little less than two months that also happen to include Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Fourth of [...]

Kidlets on the Meadow

Her First Word

I mentioned the other day that Aurora is starting to talk up a storm, and someone asked me what her first word actually was. It does my heart good, after two prior attempts at gender-neutrality that failed utterly, to let everyone know that Aurora’s first official word was: Yup. Her word was “truck.” Just the [...]

A Marina Holiday

Yesterday was the Marina holiday party. It’s like that, when you have lots of chaos in your life; you have to wait for some sort of external motivation to do the decoration thing. Otherwise, your brain is saying “oh goodness, that looks and sounds like more work…” So. Considering that we live on a boat, [...]

Things to come

Taken by my pal Steven, on a more-or-less recent visit.

Sprouting

We eat a lot of sprouts, on this boat. Not only are they little nutritional powerhouses, but they’re yummy finger food, they lend themselves to recipes well, they’re easy to store in the tiny storage space available on a boat, and, well, they’re fun. Just recently, the Sproutpeople, my favorite supplier, ran a sale on [...]

Unemployment #3

Unemployment #1 and Unemployment #2 are over at my other blog, Excellent Adventure. This morning, I am grateful that I am unemployed. Aurora is cutting teeth. By this, I do not mean she’s teething. No. She’s doing exactly what Rowan did; running a fever so hot it’s scary, being listless and uncomfortable and unhappy, and [...]

Aurora and Scorch

This is a shout out to all the dragon lovers we know…

I Want To Be Like You

As I’ve mentioned a time or two before, Aurora is growing fast. Way faster than her brothers did, mostly because she has them to look up to, and an intense motivation to catch up to them. I didn’t post the other day when she started crawling, but she is. It’s still not super-organized; more like, [...]

Growing at the Speed of Light

I swear, this is not a posed photo. Aurora was laying on the sofa, and decided to roll off, legs first. She landed, and stayed standing for enough time for Jason to get the camera and take a series of shots. I’m pretty sure she’s thinking "tah-dah!" She is growing and moving so fast. It’d [...]

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