Edited below: sock monkey hat source!I'm not sure why I thought that chasing the hyper-toddler up and down the icy streets of Montreal was a better option than wrangling her at home, solo, while...
When Princess Diana died, I was bothered by the fawning coverage of what seemed to me to be the excessive displays of public grief. This was at the tail end of my undergraduate years...
It always does. Even when it's been totally, star-obscuringly dark, it always comes out, the sun, and it shines. Not every day, not even every week - and sometimes it can feel like whole...
Wonderbaby is fiercely independent and extremely strong-willed. This will, no doubt, come as no surprise to anyone who has followed my stories about her exploits, but, oddly enough, it comes as a fresh daily...
Why is it, that on top of all the other discomforts and inconveniences of pregnancy - the heartburn, the back-ache, the farting (it's not just me, is it? It can't be), the disrupted sleep...
Dinner chez HBM, last night:Wonderbaby (pointing, with frown, to suspicious orange lump on plate): Whassat?HBM: Sweet potato.Wonderbaby: NO LIKE TAY-TOE.HBM: Fine. It's a yam.Wonderbaby: HAM?HBM: YAM.HBF (helpfully): It's a tuber.Wonderbaby: TOOBER?HBF: Tuber.Wonderbaby: NO...
You know how it goes. You have a prenatal appointment, they do an ultrasound, they let you see your baby, and you're just filled - suffused - with the joy of seeing your beautiful...
Wonderbaby's relationship with her nether regions is evolving. It is, she will have you know, no longer a hole.It is now a pocket.A recent scene at bathtime:Wonderbaby: (pointing to nether regions) Look I got,...
I didn't give Wonderbaby's future a lot of really reflective thought while I was pregnant with her. Which is to say, to the extent that I thought about it, I simply assumed that her...
