Tag: 3-6
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6 Month Update
The first few months of parenting are not boring, but they aren’t exactly exciting. Your baby isn’t very responsive, they can’t do much, and so you spend a lot of time just looking at them, listening to the occasional babble, and figuring out ways to make them laugh. I would argue that it isn’t until…
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5 Month Update
We are all creatures of habit. We establish routines to manage our hectic lives. And sometimes these routines simply mask the chaos so we can get through the day. As parents, we quickly take these established routines for granted knowing they allow us to feel a little more normal. So when it comes time to…
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4 Month Update
Adapting to new situations is a skill that we refine with age (or in the case of Isabel, after 100ish days). Becoming a parent accelerates this refinement pretty drastically. I am in no way suggesting that other life changing events (ie. going to college, changing jobs, starting/ending a relationship, etc.) don’t also accelerate this process,…
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I scream, you scream, we all scream!
Watching your child grow is already amazing as it is. But there are other amazing parts of their development that I never really thought about before, like their voice. Everyone talks about a baby’s first words sounds and then their eventual first real word. But nobody talks about what what happens between those two milestones; about…