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Use your words: Starting over and a review of ‘Late-Talking Children’
Use your words, part I Before we moved from LA I requested my medical records and did the same for Xavi. It was pretty much all review except for the results of Xavi’s initial assessment with the...
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Introducing Xavi Be Like
I met Sean in 2002 but I didn’t get to know him until many years later. Enter our blogs. I read his blog, he read mine and we discovered we had a lot in common when it came to music, TV shows and the...
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The womb where it happens
This is how I wanted to announce my second pregnancy. Because small Hamilton obsession. (Nope, still haven’t seen it.) Sean didn’t even like me joking about waiting a month to tell him just so I...
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This time around
I say/write “this time around” a lot these days when talking/writing about my pregnancy. I can’t think about what’s happening now without my reference point of 2012/13. It’s all feels so different and...
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Xavi is three
Xavi has been in speech therapy in Ithaca for less than a year. However, Sean and I have already met with a number of professionals in early intervention who consistently ask us to describe our son....
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Enough: On reaching milestones
When he first smiled as a tiny baby, I remember thinking, this is amazing. It was enough. And then he laughed and I wondered, how did I ever know how beautiful life could be before I heard his laugh?...
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Forty plus one
I wrote these thoughts yesterday morning. I now realize there’s a few similarities between what I wrote on Xavi’s due date and what I feel on Bubble’s due date. I seem to have skipped the nesting...
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The brief, wondrous birth of Archibald Kevin
I didn’t mean to give up blogging completely during my cuarentena (literally, quarantine, and also the 40 day postpartum period). I know most of my readers have been introduced to Archie through my...
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La Cuarentena, the first forty days
Earlier versions of this post were drafted in September-November 2016. Updated for clarity. ***The day after Mamá Toni passed away almost two years ago my mom shared an idea with me. “I was thinking...
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Archie, we made it!
Earlier today I looked up Archie’s birth story. I had forgotten the exact hour and minute Archie made his way into the world. I know these numbers well for Xavi. But Archie? I just had a round...
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La Cuarentena, the first forty days
Earlier versions of this post were drafted in September-November 2016. Updated for clarity. *** The day after Mamá Toni passed away almost two years ago my mom shared an idea with me. “I was thinking...
View ArticleXavi’s Fantastic Fourth Birthday
Note: photos to be added later. Still working on importing old posts. [Photo: On ring bearer duty] On Monday night, just a few hours before his fourth birthday, I rocked Xavi in my arms like he was...
View ArticleArchie, we made it!
Earlier today I looked up Archie’s birth story. I had forgotten the exact hour and minute Archie made his way into the world. I know these numbers well for Xavi. But Archie? I just had a round number....
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Moving the Goal Posts
In 2018, one of my goals was to get more local. I wrote it down in my bullet journal and even drew a cute little waterfall to illustrate what I meant. At that point, I had been living in Ithaca for...
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