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Archive for March, 2008

Eight months old!

Ronin was moaning a little bit while eating last night and Justin and I both thought “this sounds familiar” and I felt his gum and yes, indeed, his second tooth was starting to poke through.  Poor little guy.  At least we’ll no longer call him Fang.
We bought them their first jarred baby food.  At eight [...]

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It is interesting how just when we think we have the babies figured out, they change. Early on, Claire was fairly uninterested in Ronin. She would crawl off on her own, exploring her world, and didn’t really seem to care about this other baby except when he interfered with her in some way. Ronin, on [...]

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The babies met some new faces and reacquainted themselves with some familiar ones (Justin’s mother and her friend Stuart) over a long weekend filled with lots of visiting and expeditions. Everyone was prepared to deal with the onset of stranger anxiety, and there were some tears. Fortunately the babies handled it much better than we [...]

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More teeth

Claire saw Ronin’s tooth and raised him one. She has two teeth poking through her lower gum now and he still has the one, but it’s longer and sharper.
We tried avocado as a finger food a few nights ago. That didn’t go over so well. First of all, it was a mistake [...]

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Running errands

We had a bunch of errands to run today, but we found a lake near one of our stops and let the babies wade in the water and pick up handfuls of gravel. We had to supervise them constantly to make sure they didn’t eat any of it.
We are doing more babyproofing, because although they [...]

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Justin and I have both been really busy this past week. I had a conference on Saturday so I essentially worked an extra day, and Justin took care of both babies by himself all day for the first time. I have to admit, I was more anxious than he was. I texted him from the [...]

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