Month 6

Nuala,
It’s been a whole half year since you were born.  Incidentally, I fear the cumulative pressure of teaching, learning, writing, wifing, and mothering has taken its toll on my command of grammar.
I don’t know if it’s hitting this half-year milestone, which is fairly meaningless in the long run, or if it’s a regular effect of [...]

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A true statement

Though it would probably be more true to say “A LOT of people in Louisville love me.”

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Monkey see

To work up to that ungodly distance I’m planning on running in the spring, I have to run 3x a week.  Any more, I found out a couple years ago, and my body starts protesting with injuries.  Any less, and I simply won’t be able to make it.  So I’m back [...]

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Let’s get creative

So the past several days, Homegirl has vacillated between eating like I’m going out of style and refusing to do anything but snack.  On the snack-y feedings, sometimes I can convince her to keep eating if I change positions, carry her over to a different chair, or lie down on the bed with her.  And [...]

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Just in case you missed it

There are tabs at the top of the page.  Nothing has changed in the “About” or “Grimsajunior: Pregnancy Edition.”  I’m not 64 weeks pregnant and counting, after all.  I have been posting weekly pictures of Nuala in “Grimsajunior: Baby Edition,” though, in case you’re interested to see how that little face becomes more adorable with [...]

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So it begins

Because I don’t have enough to do these days, what with teaching a class, taking a class, applying for jobs and postdocs, writing a dissertation, and raising the best baby in the world, all while maintaining my usual level of awesomeness, I have decided it’s time to get my butt in gear and start working [...]

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If I’d known there would be math…

You know what I hate? The leaf-sucking truck that comes by right as I’m rounding the corner for home after a walk with Nuala in the Moby wrap to convince her of the virtues of a third nap when her first two were crap.  You know what else I hate?  Not being psychic.
Getting her to [...]

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Syllabic baby

In the last several days, Nuala has started making syllables.  It is incredibly cute, and incredibly funny as well, since she draws the corners of her mouth down like she’s a ventriloquist dummy when she does her “bwah bwah bwah.”  I don’t know where that’s coming from.  I especially love the “bwah bwah bwah” whispers, [...]

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This will probably end badly

Reaching for her reflection in the mirror on the underside.  I guess this is why these things have little harnesses you snap your kid into.

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And how does that taste?

The above is a stark reminder that babies aren’t programmed to like any food but breast milk.  We started with butternut squash, which I personally like as an adult, but I don’t remember liking it as a child all that much.  Now apples, on the other hand, I loved then and now.  A few weeks [...]

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