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Chocolate Covered Bean
If chocolate cookies are wrong, Bean doesn’t want to be right. If binkies are wrong, Bean doesn’t want to be right. And if chocolate covered Bean’s with binkies are wrong, then I don’t…
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Conversation at the Family Dinner Table
Since Bean and I both started school last week, we have started having family dinners around the dinner table together. Before, we weren’t on a very good schedule and so Bean usually ate…
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The First Spark of Creativity
Lately, we have been spending most of our free time right here. In our backyard. While Bean loves the swimming pool, what he would much rather play with are his school bus and…
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Whatever Gets You Through the Day(care)
Today was Bean’s third day at daycare. Each day gets better and easier for both him and me. On the first day when I dropped him off, he cried and cried all day…
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Happy, Friendly, Independent Little Dude
This week my good friend, Sarah, and I took Bean to a new splash park. That is absolutely his favorite way to spend an afternoon and this park didn’t disappoint. I continue to…
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Selective Intelligence
I am amazed at how much Bean is learning these days. It is incredible, really. I think the biggest difference I notice with him at 14 MONTHS OLD (Holy crap!) is how much…
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What I’ve Learned: Water Activities Edition
What I’ve Learned is a series on MC that celebrates the small victories in parenthood. Every day I feel like I get better at being a mom and this series is where I…
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Pearly Whites
Bean almost has all of his teeth already. He got his first one when he was about four months old and since then he’s pretty much always been cutting something. Unless he’s cutting…
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Mom! Look What I Found!
“Mom!” shrieked Bean. “Look what I found!” “Somebody hid my old bottles in this trash bag full of clothes!” “Well, Bean Bean,” I said. “I did that.” “What?!?!? Why?!?!?” “Because you are a…
