Make a Baby Monitor for your Belly!
I touched on this in my Pregnancy Tips article, but felt that it should be its own article as well. It’s made from things that you can easily obtain at home or at the local store.
You know how great it is to feel your baby moving inside you? And how exciting it can be to watch the bumps move when a foot or a hand pushes against your belly? Well this...
Harry Potter and the Nudity Kerfuffle
So apparently Daniel Radcliffe, of Harry Potter fame, is starring in a London production of the play Equus, in which he appears not only nude, but nekkid. Daniel is currently 17 years old and, as must be expected, there are those who are all in a tizzy over the idea of the poor innocent babe appearing naked on stage. There seem to be two primary camps of indignation, which have significant overlap:
- Dan is too young!...
The Candy Corn Incident
I’m not sure how old I was, but I can’t have been older than about 8 or 9. It was near Halloween and my mom, or maybe Sonia, had given me a bag of candy corn. At the time this was one of my favorite candies.
I had been given the absurd limitation of two pieces per day. Considering how tiny these are, and that most people eat them by the fistful, it was nearly...
Computer Kids
I am the mother of a wonderful little boy who will be 4 years old in a couple of weeks. Raising a child these days is such a different process than it was in my parents’ time. The biggest difference is the presence of computers. For better or for worse, computers are here. They are there. They are nearly everywhere, from the library to the school to McDonald’s to the DMV.
As fairly hardcore...
An Early Dominic Progress Report
I used to post Dominic’s new achievements on my site when he was a baby and toddler. I don’t have an archive of these, but I did find this one report in an archive of old pages, and thought it was interesting:
updated: July 30, 1998 (Dominic is 2 1/2)
Height: 34+ inches
Weight: 29+ lbs
Achievements: Peepee in the Potty!!! Talks in short sentences, helps mommy clean up…
Favorite Songs: “John Jacob Jingleheimer Shmidt,” “Clean...
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