Tag: Parenting
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All’s well in the world because our son can say “chicken”
He said it loudly and clearly – possibly the clearest he’s every pronounced any (English) word. The rest are approximations which we accept because he’s a baby and we’re his parents. “Chicken”, he said. And then Mama took out her iPhone and tried to make him repeat the word. As you’d expect, it wasn’t going…
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A year and a week
It’s been a rough week since Kai’s birthday – with both Naomi and I under the weather with bouts of food poisoning, flu, and in Naomi’s case, a crook back that is a bit worrying, especially considering she’s had her spine surgerised before. And of course, a one-year old never lets up. Kai isn’t quite…
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Inappropriate children’s songs
Now that Kai is beginning to learn and mimic, we are starting to be more mindful of the songs we sing to him. Especially children’s songs. On our banned wagon now is the French ditty Alouette, which we thought was about a skylark. It is about a skylark, and the cruel thing (plucking its feathers)…
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A solid start
Today Kai had a lunch of milk mixed with organic brown rice cereal. It was a messy but enthusiastic affair – Mama Naomi fed him from his brand new bowl with his brand new spoon, and for all the horror stories we heard about baby’s first meal, lunch ended with about a quarter of the…
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Zombie
Our baby boy Kai is growing bigger and louder every day, and we kinda sorta know what cry is for what even if the sound of it changes week to week. This week, most of his cries are sounding like the chorus of a song by The Corrs. More importantly, we have finally registered his…