9 month statistics

Somewhat delayed in the telling, but here we go:
He weighed (on November 30, his 9 month birthday being November 26) 27 pounds and 10 ounces. He was 30 1/2 inches long and his head was 48 cm in circumference.
All of these measurements are off the chart for his age.
He’s a big fella.
The doctor said [...]

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cat eye

So, seeing as nobody else feels like talking about shopping so much (…ahem…) how about some brilliant and adorable baby footage? Everybody loves that, right?
Here we have Rainbow playing with Rockinrolla. He’s not talking or anything here, just being his cute self, but I include this mostly because Rockinrolla si being [...]

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so, whatcha buying?

I’ve been ticking along with a bit of Christmas shopping and planning and thinking I was doing fairly well, but now it’s DECEMBER ALREADY and I feel the need to STEP IT UP and GET IT OVER WITH.
The Commodore helped me bring down some boxes of decorations yesterday; Mildly Creepy Full-Size Santa is out on [...]

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new do

Oh, look, I got bangs:

I think it takes some years off. Like, thirty or so:

That was literally the last time I had for-real heavy bangs. My mom (who met me today for lunch with Rockinrolla) noted this also, and did a lot of chuckling.
Just for kicks, here’s the rest of the class.

I think [...]

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picking up steam

with the words, that is.
Last night, Rainbow totally said “Cat.” It was sooooo sweet, just dripping with the sugar. It was like the Sesame Street skit where there are two profiles and one face says the first part of the word and the other the second: he was all K-K-K…AT-AT-AT…T-T-T…
CAT.
And this morning, with [...]

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Thanksgiving

So, it’s almost Thanksgiving, and I wanted to acknowledge that while I am tremendously grateful for my life and all the joys I get to experience, the holidays can kind of suck if you love someone who is no longer alive.
And I wanted to say to anyone who is reading this, that if you are [...]

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Christmas Presents for the Babe

So, I’m pretty sure Rainbow is getting this item along with a few stocking stuffers like this and this and this for Christmas.
He asked Santa for it, and Santa (I’m quite certain) feels it is a reasonable request. I think Santa also knows that probably he will not be the only person to give [...]

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adoption list link

I was just eating some marginally stale birthday cake and having a spot of tea after I got Rainbow down for a nap, and came upon this list of adoptive hotbutton questions.
It’s pretty good, nothing tremendously earthshattering I guess (YES, we’ve heard about all of them, unfortunately) but I thought it was interesting that the [...]

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Gold Star Day: First Word

Last night I was putting Rainbow to bed and reading Goodnight Moon (again: DANG, but this child loves this book with a passion) and he said it.
His first word, other than an occasional “Da Da” and (when agitated) a “Ma!” or “Mam!”
(Which I confess that I love and may cultivate. I’ve been Mama [...]

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s’long, Fishmaster…

and hello, Commodore.

Chosen not for his daddy’s college alma mater, but for one of his current fave bands:

(how cool is it that my fourteen year old loves to listen to vinyl LP’s of Linda Rondstadt and the Commodores and the Sex Pistols and the Rolling Stones?)
(waaaaaaaay cooler than I was at fourteen, that’s for sure.)

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