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Early Intervention

On June 12, 2012 · 15 Comments · In child development, nora

Nora is a child of very few words. Quiet, she is not. But words? Well, she really doesn’t have them.

I think I’ve mentioned this concern on my blog before, perhaps in posts about her chronic ear infections and the surgery to place her ear tubes. Or maybe in passing in other posts as well. […]

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The Sippy Cup Wars

On June 5, 2012 · 16 Comments · In child development, nora, toddlers

Oh, the battles you have to fight with toddlers. They are over the dumbest things.

Nora was the type of baby that would take any bottle. Any pacifier. As long as it was a means to nourishment and/or comfort, she was game. She had a laidback personality, it seemed.

But then she became a toddler. […]

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Up and Down

On March 22, 2012 · 13 Comments · In child development, nora, spring season

I’m convinced that toddlers are bipolar.

I don’t mean to make light of the actual mental condition–I know it’s very real, and very serious–but SO ARE TODDLER MOOD SWINGS. Dear lord.

Nora was such an easy baby. Seriously, she almost never cried. But then she turned one, and went all crazy. The tantrums were moderate […]

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Toddler OCD

On January 16, 2012 · 3 Comments · In child development, nora

Nora has a thing for making sure objects are in the “right” spot.

When she plays, she makes her share of messes, but a lot of times, she’ll pick up after herself–because she likes putting things away as much as she likes taking things out. Sometimes, she’ll be playing in the cupboards in the kitchen […]

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Spurt

On January 5, 2012 · 9 Comments · In child development, nora

Something different is happening.

My petite-since-birth, perfectly-5th-percentile-dwelling little Nora is… well, I think she’s packing on a few pounds. :) At her 12-month appointment, she was 17 lbs., 14 oz., which was right on the 5th-percentile growth curve she had been following all along. The doctor used words like “perfect” and said she was […]

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