Monthly Archives: May 2011

Gender Roles

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My aunt Anna and I recently had an interesting talk on gender roles and parenting. Having now digested that conversation, I can only hope that someone close to Stephanie reinforces this when she needs to hear it. Only perhaps someone less, um… undead.

Marie Curie, undead. xkcd really does have some of the best commentary on the world.

Fantastique! She can stand!

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Stephanie pulled herself up unassisted for the first time ever.

No sooner had I finished posting the video of her crawling and climbing than she decided to out-do herself!

We were cleaning up from dinner when we looked over and Stephanie had managed to pull herself up on her stroller. She needed a little help sitting back down, but not before I grabbed a shot with the camera!

Not surprisingly, once safely back on the floor she looked very pleased with herself and clapped her hands.

Maker Faire

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Maker Faire Events

A friend (who unfortunately was too busy to make it!) recommended the Maker Fair to us. Definitely worth the trip. Here are some photos (and a video!)…

Stephanie’s little brother or sister…

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Number Two - First Ultrasound

A friend once told me that the sequence of questions parents ask their adult children is:
- When are you getting married?
- When are you buying a house?
- When are you having a kid?
- When are you having another?
- When are you going to stop?

We can now answer them all.

Due December 31, 2011. We are ecstatic!

Maybe life will settle down after that. We hope not!

Stephanie’s first stitch…

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Stephanie has figured out how to move over the last month. Starting with pushing herself up to her hands and knees, she quickly progressed through crawling backwards to being able to motor along proficiently pretty much in every direction. In the last week, she’s started trying to pull herself up on furniture.

Yesterday afternoon, she’d pulled herself up to a standing position. Up until this point, falls had either been broken by whoever was watching her or, if they missed, the soft carpet. This time she missed the carpet and her lip impacted solidly with a toy. Blood everywhere. And since it was a lip, every time she’d go to smile – or cry – she’d rip it open again.

Off to the hospital… (we seem to be seriously testing the medical system these days…)

An hour and one stitch later, Stephanie was all fixed up. We were left with instructions on how to care for the wound (most pretty self explanatory): keep water and food away from it and it covered with polysporin and a bandage.

Here is a photo of Sarah with her before she got her stitches. Sarah is applying the topical freezing.

Sarah holding Stephanie and applying topical freezing before her first stitch.