3 lb. 13 oz.
That’s how much Sean weighed the day we brought him home. People kept asking me if I was afraid that he was so tiny & fragile. I wasn’t. He ate well, slept great, and did everything he was supposed...
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…you eat your lunch with play-do scissors (but you pronouce that “sissos”). You don your brothers cub scout hat. You think that this…. is a totally awesome hiding spot! You believe that this is a...
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People sometimes comment on how much Sean looks like Gavin. There is certainly a strong resemblance, but what I see when I look at Sean – is Ethan. Not only see, but hear and experience a child who is...
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“Hands on” also means, feet, knees and whole body… monitor lizards defy your two-year old frame of reference… icing is wearable… you always have someone to ‘fall back on’. you have brothers to copy…...
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If there was a job description listed in the paper, and Sean was the perfect little applicant, here is how it would have read: Infant wanted. Need to become accustomed to extreme amounts of noise....
View ArticleThe Present
By 7:48 a.m., Ethan is on the bus and Dennis, Mikey and Gavin are on their way to Shawnee Mountain. That leaves Sean and I. All alone. And it’s pretty quiet. He would like a breakfast wrap with sausage...
View ArticleThe Tooth
It’s just a tooth. A teeny, tiny pearly white tooth. But I know what it means. This isn’t the first time I’ve done this. First of all, it signals that this little boy is more in the golden years of...
View ArticleNearly Normal
I toted Sean to an ‘unfamiliar to us’ playground. We gathered our things, exited the car and headed for the location. As we walk through the gate and onto the splash pad, I instantly feel something is...
View ArticleDay Trippin’
If you don’t know what ‘Earthing‘ or ‘Grounding’ are and you don’t have a friend who reminds you that the best way to traipse through the New Jersey Botanical Gardens is barefoot, I suggest you remedy...
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