roman is walking now! he looks like a zombie staggering with his arms straight out but he is walking and getting better at it every day. he also seems to get cuter every day. he knows how to comb his hair and put a hat on his head and he is finally interested when we read him books. so far he is really liking "brown bear, brown bear what do you ( Read more... )

ugh. i keep forgetting to write in my journal! i wanted to talk about all the cute things that roman does because i know he'll be moving on to other cute things soon and his current cute things will be lost forever. currently i am on my last 2 weeks of paid family leave, coinciding with the move to our first house! so roman and i have been ( Read more... )

roman is standing up now. crawling all over. clapping. eating almost anything we can break into 1/2" pieces. it's pretty incredible. we're taking him to yosemite on friday for his first glimpse of the valley, but he is already a camping veteran. he's been camping in anthony chabot state park, black buttes state park, china camp state park and ( Read more... )

my parents are in town so mike and i went on a date without roman last night! and of course we had to take full advantage so we went to millennium. it was excellent, as usual. here's what we got ( Read more... )

the best thing in the world is a clean, warm, sleepy baby falling asleep nursing in your arms. seriously. my favorite thing about being a mom so far. i feel bad for mothers who feel that they must let their children "cry it out" or that rocking or nursing them to sleep is "spoiling" them. i have no right to criticize anyone else's child rearing ( Read more... )

today is my last day of family leave. roman starts daycare on monday and i am so nervous. i know ivonne will take good care of him but basically we are paying some stranger to raise our child and that just seems so wrong to me. i've really really loved spending this last month home with him. sure it can be frustrating and tiring and i somehow ( Read more... )

oh yeah. it's almost april. roman just turned 4 months on sunday. it was march 14 or 3.14, or pi, so we made key lime pie. my mom has been living with us this entire time and though i have to say it was super super rough in the beginning, and though really our apartment was barely made for 2 people, much less 3 and a baby, i am going to be sad ( Read more... )

it's 2010! i didn't die. we still have a baby named roman. it has been quite a crazy few months, of course. roman is getting cuter every day (except for some pretty nasty baby acne and cradle cap). the first few weeks my parents were here and then my brother and his girlfriend rafia and then mike's parents and brother and our niece. but after ( Read more... )

i guess it all started thursday at my doctor's appointment. that morning i lost my mucus plug (ew!) and when i got to dr. kendrick's office she did a pelvic exam and found i was already 3cm dilated! 3 out of 10 without even feeling it...wonderful. dr. kendrick asked if i wanted her to strip my membrane, which meant that she just went around the ( Read more... )

today i am 39 weeks pregnant. i am extremely uncomfortable. i found a few stretch marks on my lower abdomen and i am not happy about it. the boy has his knees up under my right ribcage and sometimes he presses on them and it hurts so bad i have to do deep breathing--it feels like a burning/stretching and it is awful. i don't blame him though--i ( Read more... )