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It’s Halloween. Happy Halloween! If SuperBoy could be something of my choosing for Halloween (you guessed it: he’s Babe Ruth dressed up as SuperMan), it would be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. That’s right. The Robert Louis Stevenson novel character wherein one person can is simultaneously wonderful and terrible. I know every little child is like this, and I’m not alone, but let me fill all of you in who have adorable babies (tormenters in the making) or no kids yet. Those of you who are childfree by choice probably know all this. You’ve heard it all before. From the dual working household it’s this: Mom or dad of child X says, “Oh, staying home would be so challenging. Sometimes I’m just relieved to go…
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I was too quick to discount my husband’s amazing garden efforts in discussing our failed garden here {Recap on Garden: Don’t Use Seeds}. Here at the end of October, the carrots and parsnips came out of the ground. Mostly because SuperBoy has been wildly couped up indoors and I needed a specific task for him to help me with. So we unearthed what I thought would be remarkably puny carrots and parsnips. O contraire mon frere. Only one beet made it out alive. I think the nasty squirrels went for those stalks hardcore. AA hates our squirrels. A lot. The carrots were so sweet and crunchy! Guess who dipped them in applesauce and humus for lunch? Oh, Mr. SuperBoy. SuperBoy declared victory over the garden.…
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We love breakfast food. Carrot Cake Waffles by Willow Bird Baking, Dutch Pancakes–the family recipe, and Whole Wheat Banana Pancakes by Alice Waters. Alice Waters. I love her recipes. And next time I’m in San Fran, I mean to go to Chez Panisse, her culinary baby. This is a variation on her Pancake recipe in the Art of Simple Food. What? You don’t own it? Go immediately to a store, or the interweb, and acquire this. It will change your world. Her recipe for Buttermilk Pancakes with my twist: 3/4 cup whole-wheat flour 3/4 cup unbleached white flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt In a separate bowl mix: 2 egg yolks (You gotsta separate them, and get them as…
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My little six month old is teething. Yup, it’s here. The snarfling nights. The little razors under her gum line. The shrill shrieks. A good girlfriend’s little son about the same age is going through this too. He was a great sleeper, but it sounds like his sleep is disrupted now. SweetPea is not a great sleeper, let’s be honest, so there’s no real change in our disrupted nights. Is your little one teething? I’ve written about teething here {Teething Pain in Young Children}, here {Toddler Night Sleep Trouble}, and here {Teething Gel: To Gel or Not to Gel}. What are the best teething toys, how do you even know it’s the teeth, and what the heck will make your baby happy again? 1) Teethers. Your breast. (Whoa! What…
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Emily Rumsey Photography Do you live in Minneapolis/Saint Paul or thereabouts? Are you expecting your first baby? What are the first steps toward learning more about your options for childbirth here in the Metro? I got news for you: long gone are the days of just showing up at the hospital, push, push, and then having a cigar (probably not you, probably your partner). Now you’ve got childbirth classes, doulas, birth plans, midwives, OB/GYNs, water births, land births, drugs, no drugs, and different kinds of drugs. It’s an avalanche of info. And I’m not even talking about all the unsolicited input from well-intentioned friends and relatives. 1) Childbirth education classes. Why do you need a class to tell you what’s totally natural and biologically normal?…
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SuperBoy playing farmer-in-the-dell. It was another magical weekend around here. The Twin Cities Birth & Baby Expo was great fun and my little craft table had lots of visits and sales. I’m going retail with my Bandit Bibs and Contour Cloths so look for more on that later. He also started teaching his little friends how to properly burp a baby (doll). “Burp, pat, pat, pat her on the back like THIS <smack the doll> keep going!” His little sweet gal pal V was over on Friday night for homemade pizza {Friday Night Pizzas!}. She brought her parents along for good measure. It was so fun! Especially to watch the two kiddos play. He also taught her baseball with a hockey stick. No surprise. Did…
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