Nate

Nate, you’re six months old today. For the first time a new month seems to be really significant. I’m the mother of a six month old! I can hardly believe that you’re this big already. You are trying so hard to crawl, spending as much time as you can every day practicing....
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I took Nate with me to my friend Erica’s baby shower on Saturday, and he is a total party animal. The minute I walked into Erica’s sister’s house, she whipped him out of his car seat (which, by the way is getting entirely too heavy with him in it these days) and up...
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The last few times we’ve gone grocery shopping I’ve started thinking about how nice it will be when Nate can sit up front in the cart instead of having to lug the car seat into the store. The little dude is getting heavy. I won’t try it until he can sit up...
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Yesterday I put Nate down on the foam mats in the living room so he could have some tummy time while I fixed his bottle. I put him down on his back, knowing that he’d flip himself over when he felt like it. Evidently, all this tummy time is paying off because...
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Nate is five months old, and five months old is proving to be an awkward age. Nate tries so hard to be mobile. When we put him on his tummy, he reaches forward, trying desperately to get ahead. He’s a pro when it comes to rolling, both front to back and...
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