tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15038442829064515042024-03-19T08:04:52.536-04:00Her romantic mindAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07215495438511341164noreply@blogger.comBlogger841125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503844282906451504.post-84270803342704730492019-01-13T22:05:00.005-05:002019-01-13T22:06:47.290-05:00Leona 9 months<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our Leona is 9 months old! This is always a bittersweet time for me, when my baby has been out in the world longer than it grew in my body. It feels like a turning point--like the baby is their own person now, like we're less of one organism and more like 2 distinct people. Obviously that was true from the beginning, but this feels like a more definitive marker. It's also a time when the baby is getting more physically independent and less interested in breastfeeding, so we're less connected in some ways.</div>
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Leona at 9 months old is joyous, independent, and outspoken. She lights up when she sees something that makes her happy, and isn't afraid to holler when she feels a sense of injustice. </div>
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<b>Sleeping Patterns: </b>Leona is a pretty good sleeper! Naps are a little spotty and irregular (classic third child!) but she seems to take 2-3 during the day, with a tiny nap around dinner time when she just can't stay awake. She goes to bed around 8:45 and sleeps until 6:30 or 7 (depending on when we all wake up). For most of the month she was waking once a night and requiring some help to get to sleep again, but we've started training her to self-soothe and she's starting to go back to sleep on her own.</div>
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<i>This photo is so blurry but she looks like she's doing a Russian dance!</i> </div>
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<b>Eating Habits: </b>EVERYTHING. Ok, not really, but sort of! Her breastfeeding habits are basically unchanged (though she has less interest in breastfeeding) but she eats sooo much real food. She has stopped wanting to be spoon fed baby food and wants to feed herself grown-up food. She shouts at us if we eat something and don't share, and can eat basically anything (including apples! And she has NO teeth!)</div>
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<b>New Discoveries I Made: </b>She discovered that by getting her knees and lifting her arms in the air she can signal to us that she wants to be picked up!</div>
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<i>Leona with her tiniest baby cousin Penelope</i></div>
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<b>My Accomplishments: </b>Shaking her head "no," eating 2.5 slices of pizza, and being awesome. </div>
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<b>Places I Went: </b>The biggest one is to Las Cruces, NM to see Grandma Dolly and Papa and all the aunts and uncles and cousins!</div>
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<b>Special Memories: </b>Leona learned to play high five with Jesse! She will play it with other people but she enjoys it best with Dad. Another one: she's learning to shake her head "no" when she doesn't want something, but she'll also do it when she sees something she's not supposed to have. Sometimes she'll start moving towards something she knows she's not supposed to have, shaking her head no as she goes!<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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Leona is our sunshine baby! She's grown so much this month and is just an absolute joy. We're all so lucky to be in her baby orbit. </div>
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<b>Sleeping Patterns: </b>She wakes up at 6:30 on the weekdays and 7 on the weekends, and goes to bed around 9. She doesn't eat at night but wakes around midnight and 4 am to have her pacifier put back in. Around 4 it seems like she doesn't want to go back to sleep in her bed and often ends up asleep in bed with us until morning. </div>
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<b>Eating Habits: </b>Breastmilk 7-8 times a day still (probably around 30 oz?) and now she's eating ALL THE SOLIDS. In fact, food has stopped being something fun and now is something she relies on! And heaven forbid you try to eat something and not share it with her--she's a nice baby but she makes herself understood! </div>
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<b>New Discoveries I Made: </b>Leona knows her name and can come when we say "come here." She's also learning how to play and be silly! </div>
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<b>My Accomplishments: </b>Leona's big growth this month was standing and cruising around things (I swear just tonight I saw her try to stand up on her own two feet without holding on to anything!!) And she's learning to clap!!! </div>
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<b>Places I Went: </b>The biggest outing this month was to my parents' house in NC for Thanksgiving! It was an incredibly long road trip and Leona cried for maybe 5 minutes tops. She was amazing and we all gave her tons of kisses for her patience. </div>
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<b>Special Memories: </b>Leona and Miriam were on the floor in my parents' living room when suddenly Leona started making a growling sound! She crawled over to Miriam and crawled onto her, still growling. Miriam understood she wanted to play and started gently wrestling with her. Leona giggled and kept growling as Miriam rolled around with her! </div>
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Like our other kids, she's kind but insistent, and is very independent. She smiles almost constantly but also lets you know when she has needs! It has been such a lovely month with our sunshine Leona.</div>
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<b>Sleeping Patterns: </b>Wakes at 6:30 am and goes to bed at 9 pm. Sporadic naps during the day--she's the third child so she kind of gets what she gets ;)</div>
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<b>Eating Habits: </b>Breastmilk 7-8 times a day, baby food and any big people food she can gum! </div>
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<b>New Discoveries I Made: </b>Leona doesn't like to wear socks, and figured out she can pull them off! Although sometimes she thinks that pjs with feet on them are socks and then spends a few moments trying to pull off her "socks" and is frustrated.</div>
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<b>My Accomplishments: </b>She learned to pull up to stand! Ack! </div>
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<b>Places I Went: </b>Daycare, church, endless stores...that's about it! </div>
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<b>Special Memories: </b>Leona was being held by Jesse when I approached him for a kiss. She carefully watched me kiss him, then looked to me. I offered her a kiss and she held her little face very still for a kiss, then laughed! Now she kisses by holding her face still and opening her mouth--after you place a little kiss on her little mouth she moves her head away and smiles! </div>
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Leona at 6 months is SO GREAT. She learned to do a whole lot this month, and I can't wait to tell you about it!</div>
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<b>Sleeping patterns</b>: Leona is....almost sleeping through the night. By which I mean, I think we're waking her up and we need to move her into Miriam's room ASAP! She goes to bed around 9 and wakes up at 6:30 on weekdays and more like 7-7:30 on weekends. She takes 2 long-ish naps and sometimes 1 short nap during the day.</div>
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<b>Eating habits</b>: This baby LOVES food and will not hesitate to tell you about it if she thinks you should be sharing! She still breastfeeds and drinks plenty of milk (I'm pumping 12-15 oz at work and feeding her 3-4 times a day at home--we're a good team!) </div>
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<b>New discoveries I made: </b>Leona can and does put EVERYTHING in her mouth! She thinks this is very entertaining (especially paper, which she's scary good at chowing down on)</div>
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<b>My accomplishments: </b>Leona learned to crawl this month!!!! It's been coming for weeks and then one day she just figured it out. She is now into EVERYTHING. Nothing is safe. Nothing.</div>
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<b>Places I went: </b>A family trip to the aquarium, to daycare, and to church. Also lots of various errands, but they hardly count!</div>
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<b>Special memories:</b> There's been so many happy moments where Leona catches sight of one of her siblings and bursts into belly-busting giggles. She loves them so much and I'm glad to see they bring her joy! </div>
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It has yet again been several weeks since Leona turned 5 months! Luckily I DID take pictures of her on the actual day, so now I just have to remember what she was like 2 weeks ago. </div>
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<b>Sleeping patterns</b>: Most of the night from around 9-10 to 5-6 (sometimes fitfully that last hour, and sometimes waking once in the night). She takes a few short naps each day. </div>
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<b>New discoveries I made: </b>Rolling can be a means of transportation, and eating paper is FUN! (just for Leona--the rest of us are concerned!)</div>
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<b>My accomplishments: </b>Rolling to get around, eating all the foods, and being generally delightful.</div>
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<b>Places I went: </b>Daycare, church, and to Brooklyn to see The Uncles.</div>
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<b>Special memories:</b> I put Leona on my shoulders and walked around a little bit, and she grabbed my hair and squealed with joy! </div>
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Our awesome Leona is 4 months old! Ok, actually she turned 4 months old 4 weeks ago, and now we're halfway to 5 months...but in my defense, we moved two weeks ago so I'm just now getting around to her recap ;) </div>
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Leona at 4 months is absolutely delightful. She is happy while also insistent that her needs get met, and really a delight to have around. At her most recent checkup, she was 25 inches long and 14 pounds. She's growing like a weed!</div>
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<b>Sleeping patterns: </b>Leona naps 3 or so times a day, gets sleepy around 8 or 9, and sleeps until 3 or 4 in the morning. She wakes for a feeding and then goes back to sleep, then wakes up again to eat at 6:30 (when I feed her before leaving for work). Lately we're trying to stretch her out so she goes all night without eating!</div>
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<b>Eating habits: </b>Leona has breastmilk around 6 times a day. Right around 4 months she started to get suuuper jealous at dinner time, and has started wanting to eat what we're eating and gets mad if we don't share! So we've started sharing bits and pieces of what we're eating, just to give her a taste.</div>
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<b>New discoveries I made: </b>Leona likes reaching her toes all the way up to her head, and has discovered that she looooves laughing with her siblings!</div>
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<b>My accomplishments: </b>Leona is working on her hand-eye coordination and can <i>almost</i> get her pacifier in her mouth! She is also starting to roll around tons and travels around the room this way. </div>
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<b>Places I went: </b>Leona mostly went to daycare, church, and to our new apartment! Of course, she comes along with us everywhere, so she also went to the store, to kid city (a fun indoor play place), and to any number of other errand-y places.</div>
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<b>Special memories: </b>Miriam loves blowing raspberries/bubbles, and one night she decided to do it on Leona's tummy. I wasn't sure if Leona would like having Miriam in her space like that, but she thought it was hilarious! The sound of the two of them giggling together is what parenting dreams are made of :)</div>
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Leona is that magical age: 3 months! Babies at this stage are so, so great, and Leona is no exception. They are sweet and smiley and sleep better than they did as newborns, and they also don't crawl and get into everything yet :D</div>
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I'm assuming Leona is bigger than at her 2 month appointment, but we didn't need one this month so I don't know! But her face is delightfully plump and so are her sweet thighs, so I'm assuming she's growing well. </div>
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<b>Sleeping patterns: </b>Leona is a great sleeper! She sleeps from around 10 pm to 3-4 am, or sometimes even 5 am. Then after that she sleeps sort of fitfully (I feel like Jesse and I spend the next hour popping the pacifier back in her mouth so we can snooze) but it's worth it for that good 6 hour chunk of sleep we get!</div>
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<b>Eating habits: </b>Breastmilk every 2.5-3 hours! Though some of us have started sneaking her tiny tastes of things we're eating ;)</div>
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<b>New discoveries I made: </b>Leona discovered that her siblings are silly! They can both make her giggle in a way that few others can. Yay!</div>
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<b>My accomplishments</b>: Rolling over!!! At 2.5 months! Yes, seriously! I think Leona got seriously tired of hearing her big siblings playing around her all the time, so she learned to roll over just to see what all the hullaballoo was. </div>
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<b>Places I went</b>: Oh my, did Leona go anywhere this month? I suppose she went to a lot of playgrounds, and to the beach, and to babysitter's houses...it was a relatively calm month (compared to May, which was NUTS) so she didn't go too many places. </div>
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<b>Special memories</b>: Leona was in some kind of mood at dinner one evening, and Miriam made her belly laugh by jumping up and down and shouting "boo!" I mean, it was pretty loud, but it was also adorable!</div>
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The two kids are keeping me busy! (Niko is too, but he's at school most of the time so it's different)</div>
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Miriam is having an interesting time learning to show Leona love in...*ahem*...safe ways. </div>
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Miriam fell asleep the other day, and I put Leona next to her to wake her up.</div>
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I really like the juxtaposition of how big Miri is compared to Leona. I have some pictures of Niko like that with baby Miri. I should dig them out and do a comparison post!</div>
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Leona often makes this face, and she makes it most often when Miri is coming in for a kiss :D</div>
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The kids ate-ish, we all shared Jesse's amazing blueberry lemonade, and we all had a swell time romping about on the rocks.</div>
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Family life is chugging along lately! We've been doing lots of things with friends, wrapping up the end of soccer season, school, and my work, and generally running around crazily (but happily!)</div>
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When the weather is nice, we've been walking to church. It's a little over a mile, up hill at least once each way, but it's very enjoyable. We never seem to leave the house quite on time though, so we're always arriving to church a little late, sweaty, and breathless. We should work on that part, because we want to keep walking!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07215495438511341164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503844282906451504.post-4250816399549415222018-06-17T08:00:00.000-04:002018-06-20T21:59:01.751-04:00Miri Dearie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Our Miri is growing up so much these days! I fear that she's already suffering the middle child syndrome (older sibling is always involved in new stuff, the baby is adorable and needy) but we're trying to push back on that as much as we can. </div>
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She gave up her nap before Leona was born, but she's been super tired lately and will often fall asleep during quiet time. It's a tricky spot--she usually gets too wild/grumpy if we skip quiet time, but if she takes quiet time and falls asleep, she won't go to bed until an hour after bed time. Catch 22!</div>
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We're also going through a serious case of the trying threes, and I'm trying to remind myself that Niko was hard at this age too and This Too Shall Pass.</div>
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She becomes so peaceful when she sleeps!</div>
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(I started this post last week--since then, Niko has graduated from Kindergarten! So I guess I'll have to have another post about him soon)</div>
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Niko is so grown these days. He was learning about poetry at the end of the school year, which resulted in him doing lots of joyous wordplay.</div>
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He's terribly creative, so when I spotted a felt bear pattern book at a used booksale, I snapped it up. We made a felt bear together (that he named "Nare") and it was so fun. </div>
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The felt bear was inspired by making this stuffed critter together (a character from a video game he's played a few times).</div>
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He's also reading up a storm. Here's a video of him reading to us at bedtime, upside down no less!</div>
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Aaron posed as the statue of liberty with his cone:</div>
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I had fun joining a handful of other Mates of State fans in dancing at the front. It was less awkward when Miri joined me, but I had fun all the same.</div>
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Hooray hurrah, Leona is two months old! </div>
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Ok, so actually she's 2.5 months old because I meant to write this two weeks ago, but I'm going to pretend it's two weeks ago and write it anyways. The pictures are all from then, at least!</div>
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At her two month checkup Leona was 10 lbs 10 oz but they mis-measured her height (there is no way this baby is in the 96% for height!) so I didn't bother remembering it.</div>
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<b>Sleeping patterns: </b>She is a great sleeper! She takes several naps during the day (ranging from 30 minutes to 2 hours)--they're sort of variable because she is prone to getting woken up by siblings or errands, but she's an amiable baby and puts up with us. At night, she sleeps from around 9 or 10 until 3 or 4, or from 11 until 5. And then we have an hour of unpleasant sleep from 6 to 7, where she's sort of awake and we're sort of awake and we keep putting the pacifier back in her mouth, in the hopes that she'll snooze. (I've begun calling her pacifier the snooze button!)</div>
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<b>Eating habits: </b>She eats every 2-3 hours during the day, and is eating around 3-4 ounces when I pump for her at work.</div>
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<b>New discoveries I made</b>:<b> </b>Smiling is the funnest! So is cooing and giggling! </div>
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<b>My Accomplishments: </b>Rolling from tummy to back (two whole times!) and grabbing on with her tiny hands. Baby hands are so useless when they are first born that I feel like learning to use them at all is a huge accomplishment! </div>
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<b>Special Memories:</b> There was this one moment where Leona was fussy and I couldn't figure out why, so I decided to try changing her diaper. She was fussy right up until I put her on the changing table, at which point she looked up at me and smiled. I felt like she was saying "Way to go mom! You figured it out!" It was a nice moment.</div>
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This is my favorite video of one of my kids, ever.</div>
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She's smiling, she's smiling, and wait for iiiiiiiiiit........</div>
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Leona is such a great part of our family. We all enjoy having her around! Miriam loves being up in her face, showing her love (sometimes in ways we'd rather she didn't) and Niko often won't go to sleep at night unless we bring sleeping Leona in his room to be next to his bed and make him feel calm and safe. </div>
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We arrived on a Saturday evening, right at the beginning of one of the softball games Jesse used to play in. One of our friends found him a mitt and a jersey and he jumped right into the game like we had never left! </div>
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I haven't done a good job of keeping in touch with our friends, but we started talking again like no time had passed. It was really, really, really wonderful. </div>
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Our kids didn't remember each other or the other grownups (Niko didn't remember living there at all!) but they were quickly introduced and soon began asking if they were cousins. We decided that they might not be cousins by blood, but they are the cousins of our hearts (and if they're cousins, that means we have an excuse to go see them again soon, right?)</div>
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Going back to Michigan was sort of surreal (did we even live in another country and another state for 2 years?!) but also really lovely. It was good to realize that we can maintain long-term, long-distance friendships with some beloved friends. It was very centering to return to people who I love and who love me, and to know these are friendships I can turn to down the road.</div>
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But it also made me realize that I need to work harder to make Connecticut home! As we were getting ready to leave I realized I was dreading saying goodbye and returning to real life. Sure, it makes sense that I'd be sorry to leave my best friends, but shouldn't I have been glad to come back to my life and the good things we've got going on?</div>
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I realized that I haven't tried hard enough to find things to enjoy in Connecticut, and, more importantly, I haven't worked to make friends here. Making friends is hard, and can't be done artificially, but moving from Michigan made me realize that I <i>do</i> need friends, and not just ones that live 800 miles away! I know I might not make friends like I did in Michigan, but I still need to try and form some friendships that I can rely on and grow from here. </div>
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Thanks for the love and friendship, Michigan friends, and we hope to see you again soon!</div>
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Guys, it has been such a long two years! I started this degree back in Michigan, three days after Jesse graduated with his JD and MA. We spent that summer crazy busy: Jesse was studying for the bar, I was taking my first two classes, I was working part-time, we were both taking care of our kids and Nycole's kids when she worked, AND we were gearing up to move to Moldova! </div>
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The last year I did here in Connecticut, while pregnant and working part time at a great library. I finished my last two classes two weeks after she was born!</div>
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I feel incredibly proud, not only of how much I learned and grew through the whole process, but also of how I was able to do it while balancing so much other life stuff. </div>
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But here's the thing: I'm keenly aware that I did not do this on my own. I didn't get to this place by my bootstraps. Sure, I worked REALLY hard. I learned and studied and "overcame obstacles" and all that jazz. But I didn't get to the place where I could do that all by myself. </div>
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I have supportive parents who encouraged me, both in this venture and in everything I set my mind to growing up. They paid for my undergraduate education, and they raised me knowing that I would go to college one day. They came from poor families, but got to a place (because of both hard work and societal privilege) where they could support all four of their children in college. </div>
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Right before Leona was born I found out I got an awesome 2 year paid fellowship at a library here in CT. It is going to be an AMAZING job but it is my first full-time job ever (I think even in college I never quite made it to 40 hours a week) and I'll be taking on a major train commute to make it happen. It's by turns exciting and overwhelming and exciting again. I start in July, so we've got some time to get ready!</div>
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And then 3ish weeks after she was born, our car up and died! We were already planning on buying a second car this summer, so we went ahead and did that now instead. Fun fact: buying a car in a short span of time when your only vehicle has died is no fun at all. Also, we were looking forward to having a second vehicle this summer to make getting to my new job a little easier, but as it turns out we'll be a one car family for awhile longer. </div>
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Lest I neglect our last baby, I'm going to attempt to do a monthly update on Leona, just like I did for Niko and Miriam. Hopefully I'll make it a whole year!</div>
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<b>Sleeping Patterns: </b>She is such a good sleeper! She wakes twice a night, and often goes at least one 4-5 hour stretch. I am feeling way more well-rested than I could have imagined. She naps plenty during the day, often waking to eat but sometimes having to be woken if she's snoozing too long. </div>
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<b>New Discoveries I Made: </b>She's making eye contact a little bit but is mostly still a little cave creature! She doesn't like being outside (so much sun!) but she puts up with it, because she is an incredibly amiable baby. </div>
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We are really loving life as a family of five! Sure, it takes longer to get everyone out the door and buckled in the car (you should see how we've Tetris-ed three car seats into our small car's backseat--it's a thing of beauty!), and tantrums can be hard to deal with with a newborn in tow, but overall it's been a pretty easy transition. </div>
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This past week was spring break for Nikolai, and I'm happy to say that the kids only watched marginally more tv than usual AND I managed to get a nap everyday AND maybe even yelled/got mad less than normal? We even left the house and did fun stuff a few times! So basically I'm calling it a raging success.</div>
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Niko is pretty far away from Leona in the picture below but this is actually much different from how he usually wants to be. The other day he was taking a bath and asked "Can Leona come lay on the mat in the bathroom? I just want her to be close by..." </div>
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Miriam also likes to be close to Leona but sometimes wants to be TOO close, so we are trying to come up with good ways for her to safely show her love. </div>
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And here's the sweetest big brother:</div>
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In the two weeks after Leona's birth I had two group projects due in order to finish my MLIS. I was pretty worried about getting it all done, but with Jesse's help (and due to Leona's easy-going nature) I was able to spend several evenings getting my head in gear and getting work done. </div>
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And now I'm done! I've finished my last assignment, and I graduate in two weeks. It's sort of crazy to think that I'll never do another assignment, and I'm weeks away from being the first person in my family to get a Master's degree. It's been a wild ride from start to finish (I'll detail the process more after I graduate!) and I'm really proud of getting it all done!</div>
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Leona had a great first week home! Jesse had a lot of sick days stored up so he was able to take a whole week off of work (nothing compared to actual paternity leave in other countries, but it was a start) and it was really good to have him home to help everyone adjust. It was especially nice to have someone to help Niko return to his normal school schedule--there's no way I could have managed a newborn and getting him out of the house on time! </div>
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We were also lucky that my brother Browne and his husband Jake were visiting some graduate schools in NYC that week, and they came to visit (and we were very glad that Leona came before they did!) I think this photo shows the first time that Jake held a baby this new before! </div>
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For her part, Leona spent the week seamlessly diving into life in our family! She slept as well as she could be asked (waking up just twice a night on average), put up with thousands of kisses and over-enthusiastic snuggles from siblings, and grew like a weed.</div>
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She had two doctor's appointments in her first week--at the first she had maintained her hospital discharge weight (7 lbs 2 oz) and at the second (4 days later) she was already past her birth weight at 7 lbs 10 oz (side note: at her two week appointment she was 8 lbs 1 oz--still growing like crazy!)</div>
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She's already smiled at her siblings but saves the rest of her smiles (and adorable baby chuckles) for her sleep. We are soaking them in and waiting eagerly to get some smiles for ourselves!</div>
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Her favorite face is this one below (very perplexed, maybe concerned!)</div>
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She's a pretty sleepy baby, so we often lay her on the floor after feedings just so she'll wake up a little bit. One day I captured her mid-wiggle, and it looks like she's shouting "CHAAARGE!!!" </div>
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She's also a very snuffly baby, so Jesse calls her "snuffle pumpkin." We thought she'd have grown out of it by three weeks but she's still snuffling like crazy, so I guess she'll stay our snuffle pumpkin for awhile longer!</div>
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