From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Our first shtick

02.28.2009
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Cupcake face

02.28.2009

Conrad had a birthday party last week, and loved seeing all the people. Also, the cupcake. Lots of photos from the party and other recent events just added to the Flickr page.

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Seeking a proactive professional to proactively proactivize

02.19.2009

Originally published on Conversations & Connections, my SAS social media blog My SAS colleague Margo Stutesman forwarded me a blog post from Sasha Dichter, director of business development at Acumen Fund. (I’m assuming she sent it because she likes the way he quantifies what he’s looking for in a social media marketer, as opposed to [...]

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First word! Probably!

02.16.2009

Like so many things about parenting, we’re not really sure of the protocol for deciding on a child’s first word. Is it the first time he says something recognizable regardless of context, or the first time he clearly identifies something by using the correct word for that thing? When does it happen? If we declare [...]

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02.12.2009

We wanted to celebrate Conrad’s birthday with his daycare class, but somehow cupcakes didn’t seem right for a roomful of babies. Instead we made bibs for all of them celebrating Conrad’s demonstrative affection. It has been reported to me that our dear son loooooves his classmates so much that he is often found making the [...]

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One!

02.11.2009

It’s been quite a year. Just like everyone says, it seems to go by very quickly but at the same time it’s as though he’s always been here. We tried to make his birthday as much fun as possible, considering that he doesn’t know what a birthday is and the things he enjoys most are [...]

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Six reasons I didn't follow you back on Twitter

02.10.2009

Originally published on Conversations & Connections, my SAS social media blog I’m certainly not the first person to give reasons why I choose not to follow people on Twitter, but there are a few Twitter habits (twabits?) that particularly annoy (twannoy?) me, in addition to the habit of making up new words by tacking a [...]

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Conrad’s first restaurant meal

02.08.2009

We went to Elmo’s Diner yesterday. Conrad ordered the pancake. He didn’t quite finish it.

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The right way and the wrong way

02.08.2009

A week or so after my son was born, we had some friends over who were due to have their first son very soon after us. The experience of labor, delivery and post partum was fresh in my mind and there was a lot that the classes hadn’t prepared me for, so I wrote a [...]

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My advice for getting through labor and the first week

02.06.2009

I wrote this about a week after Conrad was born, to send to friends who were due not long after us. I found that the birthing classes and prenatal classes and books had given me a lot of good preparation, but there was a lot no one had ever mentioned. This is my attempt to [...]

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