Roseola, Anyone?

I was wrong in my last post when I thought the worst was over on Wednesday morning. Gideon’s fever spiked to 104.4 later that day and he couldn’t even stand on his own. The mystery fever finally broke for good yesterday afternoon, and while he had lost his appetite, he finally felt normal to the touch [...]

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103 Degrees

We went away to Lake Tahoe this past weekend with a couple of friends. As always, traveling with an infant or a toddler is an adventure, but we keep learning how to do it better with every experience. For example, taking a fourteen-month-old for a four-and-a-half hour car ride in late afternoon is probably not the best [...]

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Em-PHA-Sis on Wrong Syl-LA-Ble

In the attempt to teach Gideon two languages instead of one, I’ve been speaking to him primarily in Spanish and Stefan speaks to him in English. We were a bit worried initially that he might get confused by the two languages or would get frustrated at not being able to communicate with us effectively, but [...]

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August in Northern Cali

We went out for a little walk this morning, and then Gideon helped me prune the English walnut in our backyard (he yanked the leaves off the lower branches while I clipped the high ones). This kind of weather is what the Irish like to call a “fine, soft day” and fairly typical for northern [...]

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Cat, Meet Boy

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with animals. There are pictures of me as a toddler chasing after several of the family pets, eager to catch up with them to squeeze and love them forever. Lucky for the animals that I was very gentle with them, and as I got older I spent [...]

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