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Ten Months

June 28, 2011 By Victoria 1 Comment

It’s always fleeting, this first year of life. The magical softness, the effortless cuddles and quiet times spent alone together with just the coos and the sound of your breathing mingled with theirs. So at 3:41 a.m. when The Fifth Element woke up again despite just having eaten I didn’t mind picking her up out [...]

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The Fifth Element- Month 7

March 21, 2011 By Victoria Leave a Comment

Oh, how are we already here. Sitting up, eating food, drooling like a pro and sporting a new tooth. It’s too much, too fast. My baby (wail…) The Label as my neighbor likes to call her at seven months.

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Seven Months

June 17, 2009 By Victoria 1 Comment

At this moment you are sound asleep in your sweet peace your heels forming a v-shape. Those little toes look so tiny and entirely edible. Your sister wants nothing more than to kiss you right now but I don’t believe in breaking the cardinal rule of baby care, “Never wake a sleeping baby.” You are [...]

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Halloween Happenings

October 31, 2008 By Victoria 2 Comments

Feet are up. Glass of water sits beside me. Oh, that old game again? Yes. Yes, it is. I had my special sonogram today and we found that indeed this time my amniotic fluid is low and the placenta? The ‘done’ buzzer has pretty much gone off on it. Dash Two has not made great [...]

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Oh Just a Tad Nervous

May 1, 2008 By Victoria 4 Comments

I’m a wee bit nervous today. OK, maybe more like A LOT nervous. Today is the day we get to hear this bean’s heartbeat for the first time and this day always fills me with some fear. I get all excited when we first make the appointment but as the day draws closer I find [...]

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We are in Mourning

October 22, 2007 By Victoria 2 Comments

I knew it would happen someday but I just kept thinking, “not in my house, not with my kid.” Then it did. It didn’t even start off slowly it was just a one day turn around and now there seems to be no going back. Nap time. It used to be a blissful, though short [...]

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The Dash Two Factor

September 24, 2007 By Victoria 6 Comments

What is it about a kid free weekend that makes you wonder and discuss the idea of having another child? That topic came up more than once for H and I this sans T.D. weekend. For me, it surrounded me and clouded my thoughts, making me jump from one opinion to the next never able [...]

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Scary Even to Me

July 10, 2007 By Victoria 2 Comments

Sometimes life just gets to be too much. No amount of wine or cigarettes (I wish!) will do. A nap, a good book, or a time out just isn’t sufficient. Pedicure? Yeah right. What you need is a good crying jag. Or a meltdown of such epic proportions that has built up for so long [...]

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The Good Ol’ Days

July 6, 2007 By Victoria 11 Comments

Back in the days when I was “with child”, “preggo”, had a “bun in the oven” or was just plain pregnant I had a lot of people say some pretty bizarre or just plain rude things to me. They feel it’s perfectly ok to not even say ‘hello!’ or even smile at you, but just [...]

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Back to Reality

February 13, 2007 By Victoria 2 Comments

How is it that in span of less than 60 seconds the phone can ring, I burn myself with hot wax (and sadly nothing even remotely kinky was going on), T.D. falls off the bed and manages to eat a nice mouthful of diaper cream? How? I guess it was just the universe’s way of [...]

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