http://dontbearadish.com a turtle's view on being a radish Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:36:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Time is passing so fast. Katya and Vanya are growing in waves and bounds. It is quite amazing to be part of it. At 16 months, Vanya has a driving determination to do everything his sister does regardless of the two year difference between them. Hence, he is climbing stairs ... http://dontbearadish.com/?p=123 Vanya is growing so fast, I thought I'd share a little about him. April 30, 2009 Oh how time flies. Just a minute ago Vanya was tiny sweaty sticky baby searching for milk on everyone’s breast, arms and shoulders. Now he eats everything, talks and almost walks. This week Vanya had chicken ... http://dontbearadish.com/?p=122 We have two big reasons to celebrate in our household: Reason 1: KATYA IS POTTY-TRAINED! Three weeks ago, we threw Katya a Potty Party. A Potty Party is an intense event. It involves teaching your child how to teach a doll how to use the potty, purchasing a doll that “pees,” ... http://dontbearadish.com/?p=121 Sometimes Peter and I like to call Katya “pumpkin head” as an endearment. “Hello my little pumpkin head!” “It’s time to go to BED, pumpkin HEAD.” I am not sure why we started or where it came from, but the other night we were unwise enough as to have a ... http://dontbearadish.com/?p=120 Two sweet sleeping babies lay upstairs. One tired gum-chewing tea-drinking mama sits downstairs in front of her computer zoning out. Today was quite a day. Katya is getting her two-year molars. (She let me look in her mouth with a flash light!) She is crazily vacillating between playing cheerfully and whining ... http://dontbearadish.com/?p=119 Vanya is 2 1/2 months old. He is harder to write about than Katya. He is a sweet, good natured, patient baby. He doesn't cry unless he is hungry or he wants to be burped - and even then he only cries if you ignore the vast number of squiggly ... http://dontbearadish.com/?p=118 HELLO!! I hope everything is good with you. It has been so long since I wrote an update that I have decided to split the main news into two e-mails - one about Katya and the other about new baby Vanya. I'll try to write a more general one soon. Katya ... http://dontbearadish.com/?p=117 I just read through my last update which I wrote in December. The last line was "I hope to be in touch more often now that the worst (first trimester) is past." Quite funny as I have rarely written so infrequently We are all doing well. I am 8 months pregnant, ... http://dontbearadish.com/?p=116 So first, I will tell you about Katya… (surprise!) We are so excited that Katya will be multi-lingual. She is learning English, Russian, and seems to have retained a smattering of words from her previous habitation on a planet nearby Mars. Hence, we are all becoming multilingual. There is not one ... http://dontbearadish.com/?p=115 Whew! I just finished a mad clean of the house. I vacuumed and mopped all the floors in the house – except Katya’s because she is sleeping. In fact, I have mopped myself into the corner with my desk and computer. So I figured I would try to finish this ... http://dontbearadish.com/?p=114