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Oh, my sweet girl! We got a letter this month from our terrific health insurance company stating that the hospital charges for your delivery added up to almost $500,000. You are such as a happy, easy-going baby. Worth every penny! Your personality is starting to shine this month.  You appear to be a real “observer”…

Six months?! You’re half a year old. It doesn’t seem possible! You started the new year by moving from your bassinet to the crib. You also traded sleeping for two bottom teeth and a healthy appreciation of all foods. Actually, you seem to sleep okay – it is me and your father who are woken…

This was such a cheery and fun month! You hit a new apex of cuteness just in time for a wave of holiday party dress-up opportunities. I took easily thousands of photos of you this month. You’re now eating food! I was fretting about the best “technique” and looking up recipes for feeding babies…when you…

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. You started the month dressed up in a gorgeous silk dress at a fancy party celebrating the 10th birthday of our friend Jordan’s company. You reached a new pinnacle of cuteness the next week, right as the 2016 election results came in. Rob…

On Wednesday, we headed from Reykjavik to drive to our next house in Bifröst (pronounced “beef roast”). We stopped at the local Target-equivalent, Hagkaup on our way out of town for groceries including reindeer meat. Bifröst is part of the Borgarfjordur region and is most famous for being the home of a 500-student university. The…

My gosh, you are good at growing! Looking at these photos from the last month, it is easy to see how quickly you became much taller and plumper. You’re 99th percentile in height and at least 13 lbs. You’ve also added all kinds of new skills. You started off the month learning how to hold…

We’ve seen you start to become a person in these last few weeks! Most of your second month has been spent in San Luis Obispo at your Grandparent’s house. You first arrived there as a very cute but still unresponsive newborn. It was just a few days after on September 6 that you smiled a…

I improvised this salad for a beach picnic with the babies, my sister and cousin out in Pescadero last weekend. Flavorful, very healthy and even incidentally vegan – this recipe makes a huge quantity with plenty of leftovers to turn into quesadillas, nachos or taco salads throughout the week. The poblano gives it a nice…

What a joy this first month has been! Our original plan for the first few weeks home with you was a very modern determination to just hibernate, order takeout and avoid people. Instead, thanks to our complicated labor, we were showered with an endless stream of well-wishers bringing food and help. It was HEAVEN. Me…

When I tell my friends this story – after we get through all the horrible scary parts and a few fun gross TMI details – we get to the end where the baby and I are both okay and it feels appropriate to laugh a bit. At this point, they usually say something along the…