Revelry Reverie

My beautiful babies

Let me tell you about my babies. Henry was baby A. He was born at 4:03 PM on a Tuesday in November. He was not prepared for the cold, bright world and squalled tremendously when he was born. He is my sensitive little boy. He gets startled easily and will cry more readily, but he…

June 26, 2012
Pureed carrots

I have a Beaba Babycook (beabausa.com/product-babycook.php) (NOT USED TO COOK BABIES, by the way) that was a gift from my lovely, wonderful and talented cousin. I’ve been using it to make purées for the babies since they were 6 months old. They are now nearly 8 months old, so I’m not yet a pro. I…

June 26, 2012
20/20

I made myself an eye appointment the other day, so I was thinking about 20/20 vision (which mine is decidedly not.) 20/20 means that someone who has ideal vision can see something clearly at 20 feet (in this case, the eye chart). The first 20 is the ideal, and the second 20 is that person’s…

June 21, 2012
Young Adult literature & why I love it

I’ve only recently come to realize this about myself. I adore fiction aimed at young adults. The realization dawned on me as I was inexplicably reading Anne of Green Gables for the first time recently and wondering why I was doing such a silly thing. I am getting close to the end, but I have…

June 18, 2012
Things my dad taught me

2 to the 8th power is 256. Race car engines are on their sides, and that happened in 1953. Or 1954. Engineers are very creative, and may well be chaos muppets disguised as order muppets. Don’t speed up when cars are trying to pass you on the highway. Don’t worry about what other people are…

June 17, 2012
I see you

When the twins were first home, we were given a talking dog toy. The dog was bigger than the babies put together, and was really meant for larger infants. It was cartoony, with big words printed on its ears, stomach, paws, etc. The premise is that the dog is interactive and helps babies learn nursery…

June 11, 2012
On Words, sort of

Recently LinkedIn got hacked and a lot of people’s passwords were compromised. And the overwhelming reaction was sort of a cross between a yawn and an eye roll (well, except for the folks at LinkedIn, that is). I was thinking about that when I was driving in to work today. What was the motivation, really?…

June 8, 2012
Babies are healthy

I don’t know how to explain it, exactly, but when the twins get sick, they are under the weather for about a day. Sometimes two. Then they’re back and better than ever. Meanwhile, they give whatever they have to me, and I am ill for weeks. Granted, they get a lot more sleep than I…

June 4, 2012
Rain

We’ve been having a strange afternoon for rain. It’s been humid and hot for the past few days, and today the towering thunderheads rolled in. For about 15 minutes late this morning there was a brief shower with enormous raindrops. They were just huge. And widely spaced. And about two hours later the rain came…

May 29, 2012
The sweetest

Yesterday evening we took the twins to the park before bedtime. We put Eleanor in the swing (Henry was already asleep), and she smiled and yawned as she swung back and forth. That was adorable and sweet. But the sweetest thing was when a little girl, who had come to the park with her dad…

May 25, 2012