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Little Bird Baby Bird: February 2011
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Monday, February 28, 2011. Yesterday Natalie and I joined Daisy Scout Troop 3105 to sell Girl Scout cookies outside Wal-Mart. By the appointed time, I had dismissed scores of excuses for not showing up and decided to just suck it up and Be The Mother. So my shy little girl and I set up shop with Natalie's friend Kalei and her lovely mom Pam. Kalei and Natalie are perfect for each other. Quiet, sweet, unassuming. And terrible saleswomen. After a little peer mentoring, Natalie began to come out of her shell.
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Little Bird Baby Bird: May 2010
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Friday, May 28, 2010. The girly girl toughens up. Natalie is a girly girl. She wears a dress everyday, often with sparkle shoes, and she sings princess songs to herself while twirling around to make her skirt fly out. I may have contributed to this by painting her toes, buying all those dresses and generally being quite a girly girl myself. Yet I will unhesitatingly grab for a lizard in the backyard. Natalie recoils. I have decided to act. As we made our way to the goats, Natalie asked "What smells, Mama?
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Little Bird Baby Bird: August 2010
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Friday, August 13, 2010. Back to the '60s. Last weekend Tony and I went to a '60s party at the Del Coronado Hotel. It was hosted by his new men's club, the Rest and Aspiration Society, which is a fancy name for drinking and talking smart. But they are a nice bunch. And from my grandmother's closet. Here I am at Halloween, dressed as Betty Draper. The day of the party I tried on this dress, but it seemed to have shrunk in the hips while hanging in my closet. The hair quickly fell though. (That $%#@! When ...
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Little Bird Baby Bird: Field trip
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011. I recently chaperoned Natalie's class on a field trip. I don't like tight spaces with a lot of people - Costco makes me crazy - or lots of noise. I am a Highly Sensitive Person. (Are you? So this trip was a bit challenging for me. I recorded 15 seconds to share with Tony, so he could praise my not leaping out the window. It was 35 minutes just like this. Can you hear the Disney music over the din? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). San Diego, CA, United States. C jane enjoy it.
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Little Bird Baby Bird: July 2010
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010. He just keeps on livin'. Over the weekend we had house guests: Merlin and Kitty. They live with Natalie's dad. Natalie and Matt went to the Bay Area for the weekend to see his parents in Bodega Bay and also join the 5th annual reunion of families with whom we traveled to China to meet our daughters. Poor Merlin is winding down. The Merleman has bone cancer, and Matt was told back in January that Merlin. When I take off the collar, which we call the cone, Merlin is very happy.
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Little Bird Baby Bird: June 2010
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Lately bedtime has gotten a lot more fun because of the beatbox. Each night I read a story to Natalie, or she reads it to Tony and me. And then Tony tells a story. This is how it went when I was growing up, except for the beatbox part. I’d say to my dad: Tell me a story and read me a story! And he'd always oblige. His stories were often about Spot, a bluegill, and Spike, a perch. And each story began the same way:. 8220;And all the girls wore pretty dresses and there was popcorn...
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Little Bird Baby Bird: She can eat hard food now
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011. She can eat hard food now. The top front tooth that Natalie's been babying for weeks finally came out tonight. Which is really terrific because it's felt like having an old person living with us. Soft food only! This tooth has tormented her! No apples, having to bite a PB&J with her canine and first premolar. Can you imagine her relief? She suggested Tony and I go to bed early tonight, so we don't scare away the Tooth Fairy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Not a last resort.
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Little Bird Baby Bird: I'm back!
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Sunday, January 2, 2011. And it's all thanks to my two faithful readers, Thyme and Kristine, who were standing out there in the dark, holding their lighters up for me. Let me tell you, when I get complaints from 20 percent of my readership, I take it seriously. So, the last two months, in a nutshell:. 3 We went to Wisconsin for Thanksgiving. It was very cold! 4 I went skiing with my dad in Aspen - my first time on skis in 15 years! We drove up to Norco last night to see them and fell for two - a boy and ...
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Little Bird Baby Bird: March 2010
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Sunday, March 28, 2010. Natalie gave a fantastic performance during her last Spring Sing at Children's Growing Center. Next year it's off to first grade. We are sad. But also quite happy because Natalie is a big girl now and Spring Sing is a kind of a drag. Natalie sang and danced and she was super cute in her zebra print skirt. My friend Jennifer said it was her Swan Sing. Great job, Natalie! Saturday, March 27, 2010. Photos courtesy of the delightful and talented Katie Gardner. Labels: tony and me.
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Little Bird Baby Bird: April 2010
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Thursday, April 29, 2010. Those hikers on the evening news. Since we have been home from our honeymoon on Kauai people ask us how our trip was and if we have time and we gauge them as a receptive audience, well then we tell them about The Hike. Our first day in Kauai it rained, so we spent much of the day at the Love Shack. Guess what we decided to do? So I was ready to knock out eight miles in Hawaii. See? As I mentioned, it had been raining. Which made the trail a little muddy. So we slipped and slid u...
