July 2010
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June 2010
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“The stone age didn’t end because they ran out of stones.”
– unknown
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“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Compaq Nougat Convertible Carseat
Today I ran a couple of errands after wrangling a few extra hours sleep last night. First on my list was picking up a car seat which my mother had very kindly gifted us for the new baby. I’ve been excited about picking it up all week, as it marked the last “big thing” we need to have ready and on stand by for when the baby comes.
James drives a very spiffy, but very compact convertible which...
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Full Term
We have three different due dates. I guess that’s what happens when you see four different care providers over the course of one pregnancy and everyone works it out a different way. But as of yesterday, the most in the middle of those due dates makes our baby full term. That means if she were born now we wouldn’t consider her mildly premature any more. She isn’t actually due for...
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“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules,...”
– Mary Lou Cook
“home birth is not simply the subtraction of medical technology from birth, but...”
– Stand and Deliver
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Clothing Winnie
We do our grocery shopping online, and so I ordered a box of baby wipes without really thinking much of it. Until they arrived with Winnie The Pooh plastered all over the container. Now before you think I am some sort of pooh-bear-hater, let me assure you that I am quite fond of the pre-Disney character. But there is something very strange about a bear who doesn’t even wear pants advertising...
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Nesting Instincts
Well, I never thought it would happen, but yesterday for the first time in, well, my whole life, I felt like cleaning. Apparently I can thank my hormones for this.
I decided to make the most of it and got the spare room in order. There were piles of crap all over the floor and boxes of god knows what. Thankfully, we bought a new bookcase a couple of weeks ago which meant I could at least transfer...
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“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be...”
– Edward de Bono
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Alerting the Neighbors
The apartment block we live in seems to have paper thin walls. We can hear when our neighbors cough, flush the toilet or plonk into bed. So, the idea of giving birth at home, along with the usual sounds of labor, has made us a bit concerned about what the neighbors will think. Rather than leave them guessing (and risk someone calling the police to make sure we’re okay) we made up some little...
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“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the...”
– Alan Alda
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May 2010
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“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed...”
– Charles Brower
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Hiccups
The baby has been having hiccups for quite a while, but lately we’ve noticed that she does it for much much longer, and that they are very evenly spaced. She usually starts up when I’m in bed at night or sitting quietly with a book, and it can go for a good twenty or thirty minutes. It’s so funny, but when trying to sleep they have the same affect as a tap dripping. Ergo, last...
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“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.”
– Theodore Levitt
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“When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don’t state the matter...”
– Lewis Carroll
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