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we're driving to lynne's parents' house. about thirty min in, juno starts whining.

"are we there yet?? i'm bored, this is such a long drive"

me: "can we put on a podcast or some music? it'll make the time go faster."

juno: "ugh, baba, it doesn't make time go faster, it just makes you THINK it does!"

me: "..." yeah you sure shut me up

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For a while, I avoided posting any updates because it felt too intimidating to catch up such a vast period of time.

So much has happened since then. We moved to Northampton, MA in June 2020. Initially, this was to support our best friends and their new kid, who was due in July. But he was born, and we stuck around. Living alone was hard, and ( Read more... )

it feels like many years have passed since my last post (that one was mostly drafted a few months before i posted it).

we're in isolation now. i don't remember the exact date that it happened, but i do remember moments. one morning, around the end of february, i woke up to ominous news about the coronavirus spread. trump was still denying it was ( Read more... )

i remember her on my chest, a completely helpless bundle of blubber, her breath shallow as if fighting to stay in this world. in one of those countless moments, i must have taken some sacred oath to protect her at all cost. her helplessness softened me, and i felt a warmth and giddiness in the darkest corners of my heart ( Read more... )

EIGHTEEN MONTHS ( Read more... )

about five months since the last post. so much has happened, and so much has changed. not even sure where to start, or how to capture it all, so i'm just going to capture some of the fragments.

her language skills have grown enormously. she's picked up a lot of both mandarin and english. here are some words she knows now:

mandarin:

• speak: mama, ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty long time since the last post! And during this pretty long time, Juno has hit several growth spurts, so it's even longer in my memory.

What's new:

Juno is CRUISING. All over the place. Non-stop crawling over to the nearest corner, crevice, or fuck it a wall, and standing herself up and wobbling over to the nearest screen. ( Read more... )

juno started crawling three days ago!!! she first started crawling for my iphone, but quickly started crawling by the next day for a bunch of other things - food, pens, shiny objects, toys.

we have a bunch of videos on instagram and our iphones, and it's glorious.

(and by the way, this means i win the bet from dec 23 on her crawling within two ( Read more... )

today, after a long trip to VA. in my parents' living room after whining for several minutes, lynne propped juno into a squat and after much grunting, she delivered a bundle of smelly golden delight to us.

first poop in a LONG time that didn't happen in a car.

i know this is pretty normal for most kids, but it still feels momentous and amazing, so ( Read more... )

it's been a while. how quickly time passes, how rapidly things change!

it feels like so much has changed, but there are paltry few things to "show" for these feelings. the biggest "change" is that she can sort of do an assisted walk. really, it's just falling forward while i hold her up, but over the last two days, she's started taking little steps ( Read more... )