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No Thank You Gymboree

January 5, 2012

Ender started in the Gymboree Play and Learn stage 2 at the beginning of December, when he turned 6 months old. He had just been starting to make crawling like attempts, and I thought maybe getting him at a place like Gymboree would help get him going. His favorite place to experiment with movement is

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Craft Night

January 4, 2012

Tonight was my first craft night. While I was pregnant I came up with the idea of doing a girl’s craft night. I thought it would be a nice way to get me some grown up company and keep me sane. Then of course Ender came and planning ANYTHING seemed pretty unlikely. As he’s gotten

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Naming Ender

Matt and I debated about giving Ender such a loaded nickname. Forget the fact that Ender Wiggin killed two children (in self defense) before he was 12, and forget that he unknowingly committed mass xenocide. (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, a summary of Ender’s Game should help.) Ignoring all of the

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