Archive for November, 2006

Don’t Think Pink
November 30, 2006

We’re anti-pink in our household. It’s not just that we don’t like the color (which, for the most part, we don’t). It’s also one front in our battle against the princessification of our daughter. We want Ruby to be an independent thinker. We want her to experience every color of the rainbow, and then decide [...]

Eating, Regressed
November 12, 2006

Well, apparently I gloated too soon. A few months ago a (different) set of parents in our parents group talked about how their child was vomiting, and my question to them was, “how do you tell the difference between vomit and spit-up?” Well, now I know: if it’s green and stinks and keeps going and [...]

Eating, Advanced
November 12, 2006

One of the parents in our parents’ group mentioned that his child won’t eat freshly prepared squash. He’s been eating jarred baby food and the flavor in the freshly prepared stuff is too strong. Not so with our precious Ruby! The only processed food she eats is Cheerios. Everything else is freshly prepared by ours [...]