We have been transitioning nicely into summer hours around here. To start, the end of all my day-to-day academic responsibilities coincided with the start of the World Cup. With the exception of the odd 30 minutes of Lawrence Welk, prior to last week Eleanor had basically never watched TV. In the past week, she has [...]
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Freaky Friday
June 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Carleton, EDG
Ok, not freaky. But unusual inasmuch we did three (for us) exciting things. As I’m sure almost none of you know, I’m a particular fan of pigeons. I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved them. When I was a child, my mother took me to Trafalgar Square back when it was covered in pigeons [...]
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Birthday the first
June 3rd, 2010 · 6 Comments · EDG
Eleanor turned 1 yesterday. We have been doing what it seems is the done thing on such an occassion: reminisicing about this time last year and comparing the small, small baby that we met on June 2nd 2009 to the much larger, personality-filled person we have today. We are having a party this weekend for [...]
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The great dandelion massacre of ’10.
May 13th, 2010 · 6 Comments · EDG, Garden
“We ordered a push mower yesterday after reading a lot of glowing Amazon reviews and receiving reassurance from a neighbor that a push mower will do us just fine. It’s due to arrive tomorrow. I don’t know how long we’ll last without a gas mower and if a push mower is the ultimate in hippie [...]
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Toronto
May 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · EDG, Trips
Phew. We’re home after an extended weekend in Toronto. Emily left you with a cliff hanger on her last post: how would Eleanor travel? I am pleased to report that she was awesome. She was happy during all the flights (ecstatic during take-offs) and happy for hours and hours in her car seat as we [...]
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Misandry
April 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · EDG, Uncategorized
Eleanor doesn’t generally like men. She’s a real fan of her father but otherwise plays it very cool with the fully mature XYs (she has no problem with the baby boys; she loves the baby boys). People have reassured me this is normal. She used to scream whenever Dan H.and his beard entered the room [...]
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Update
April 8th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Belly, EDG
As Emily indicated in her last post, the past few weeks for us have pretty much looked like this (and, for the record, I was not the one that reached for the camera this time): But the (germ) clouds appear to be lifting. Eleanor has perked back up and more or less returned to her [...]
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Think like a baby
March 21st, 2010 · 7 Comments · EDG
I need to get better at thinking like a baby. Ellie is curious and mobile, which means that she is getting into anything and everything. A few times now, I’ve put her down and scanned the room for danger. “Looks good to me,” I said to myself, only to turn around 5 seconds later to [...]
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Cheerios
March 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · EDG, House
It has been a week of firsts. Eleanor started crawling, started waving (that weird, hand-folding wave that, for whatever reason, grown-ups use with kids. Eleanor now waves to herself because that’s what she sees. She doesn’t yet get that just as we wave to her, she should wave to us) and started saying “Da da” [...]
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Schindler’s List
February 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · EDG
They say that regular posting is the life-blood of a good blog. We have failed. But we have a good reason: we were in Chicago for three days without Eleanor. How wonderful and stressful but mostly wonderful. We were very sorry not to be able to show-off Ellie to all of our friends, but it [...]
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