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Early Exposure

A few weeks before Gabriel arrived I was lamenting to my mom that I had fallen into an unfortunate habit of letting Dante come home from day care and watch TV while I got dinner ready…about an hour or an hour and a half.  And she said that, yes, with another one in the house [...]

The Second Time Around

When we left home for the hospital to have Dante (formerly know here on the blog as Pumpkin) I clearly remember thinking that we were about to embark on the best two weeks of our lives – Nathan (formerly known as Spouse) had taken two weeks off from his high stress, long hours job to [...]

Learn: Pumpkin is learning to talk!

If you have been reading along, you know that my precious Pumpkin is a bit behind on language development.  To be specific, according to our evaluation a few months ago, he is 27% behind.  Whatever the percentage…about three weeks ago he decided it was time to talk.  I have a feeling that this is just [...]

Learn: Letting Go, or Not

This pregnancy has been in a few ways about letting go – I have been physically unable to keep up with all the demands that existed before being with child – and toddler.  Not that pregnancy is an excuse to stop being a responsible wife, mother, employee, friend.  But it sure means that by the [...]

Pumpkin’s Tough Choice

Since Pumpkin came into my life I have been amazed at how distinct and clear some of his personality traits are – nature v. nurture?  I have seen a whole lot of traits that are clearly nature.  And those traits allow Pumpkin to make decisions and take actions accordingly.  Even though this has been the [...]