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 [...]
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August 20 2010
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 [...]
August 6 2010
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 [...]
December 20 2009
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, [...]
December 8 2009
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 [...]
August 5 2009
Kestrel’s New Haircut
Kestrel decided he wanted his hair cut. He was serious. For over two months, he badgered me about getting it done, and I stalled, not only because I wanted to make sure that was really what he wanted, but also because I loved, loved, loved his golden curls, and the way they made him look [...]
December 23 2008
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, [...]
August 18 2008
Posing
Kestrel wanted me to take a picture of him and Aurora. He had been holding her for a while, and thought they looked cute. So I picked up the camera. Clearly, Kestrel was far more interested in being photogenic than Aurora was. Jason stepped in to try to get her to focus in the same [...]
