Today I am very proud of my daughter, my stalwart, curious, and unassailable girl. She went to the dentist for the first time today and she was so relaxed about the poking and prodding and scraping and scratching and flossing and polishing and picking and suctioning that you’d think she was a professional dental patient….
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Birthday Number Three Means Three Days of Partying. Right?
Erin is officially three years old. By “officially” I suppose I mean “in a number-counting” kind of way and not in a “here’s a letter from the mayor” kind of way. Although the mayor did call, and just like I do with every other telemarketer who calls asking for money I gave the phone to…
Little Boys and Girls, Part One
We try, well, not hard, to be pretty gender-neutral when it comes to the kids. We don’t ignore the fact that the kids are biologically different, but we at least keep the culturally-gendered pseudo-differences in suspicious view, and knowing is half the battle. (Go Joe!) I introduced both Erin and Adrian to hockey early on,…