I remember one day, when my 15 - year - old
was a tiny baby, wandering in to my local health food store and asking questions of the salesperson there.
I can't believe it was five years ago I first held you in my arms:
you were a tiny baby with twinkly eyes and the cutest little dimples.
AP seemed «easy» when our daughter
was a tiny baby because, for me, AP was like... breathing.
What saved my sleep when both my kids
were tiny babies was co-sleeping.
Little Miss might not be a newborn anymore, but
she is a tiny baby still.
But just like when
she was a tiny baby, you should tune in to your child's feelings and help her work it through.
It was especially good when
she was a tiny baby and I would have to change her diaper at night.
And yes,
those are tiny baby ballet slippers.
And don't even get me started on the adorableness that
is a tiny baby beaming happily up at their older brother or sister.
The mattress was really high, and the rail was down when
they were tiny babies.
There have
been tiny baby steps, but if you're talking about a European charter and code, you want to do a lot better.
If you can believe it, I've made these pancakes for my kids since
they were tiny babies, and they're now both teenagers, but guess what, they still want these Valentine's Day pancakes!
I remember one day, when my 15 - year - old
was a tiny baby, wandering in to my local health food store and asking questions of the salesperson there.
My foster family took me in when
I was a tiny baby and lovingly cared for me until I was six months old and ready to find my forever home.
Suddenly I realize that between 3 medium - sized elephants
is a tiny baby lying down resting, her sisters towering over her, positioned in a protective triangle.
From when
you were tiny babies this always used to be our special time of year, beach egg hunts and fabulous times in the surf or chasing the blue moon gypsies along coastal roads.
During the month we were separated when
he was a tiny baby, it was nearly impossible.
There will
be a tiny baby at the funeral today who hasn't been immunised.
Not exact matches
There
are guys in short - sleeve button - downs, a red - haired middle - aged woman who
's brought her digital camera, a man with long ropey dreadlocks, a girl with highlighted hair and precise bangs, and a couple with a
tiny baby sucking a pacifier.
This
tiny baby cow
was spotted in a flooded field after Hurricane Harvey.
Of course there
are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new
baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three
tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)
We've
been washing impossibly
tiny sleepers, reorganizing the house, borrowing my sister's
baby gear.
I had thought I
was starting one particular chapter of my life, one that brought me a lot of joy —
tinies growing into marvellous big kids, finally emerging from the fog of
babies - toddlers mothering, and a strong sense of purpose around my own vocation, for instance — but when I flipped the page, there
was unprecedented change for us.
In the guise of a
tiny baby in its mother's arms, obeying the great laws of birth and infancy, you came, Lord Jesus, to dwell in my infant - soul; and then, as you re-enacted in me — and in so doing extended the range of — your growth through the Church, that same humanity which once
was born and dwelt in Palestine began now to spread out gradually everywhere like an iridescence of unnumbered hues through which, without destroying anything, your presence penetrated — and endued with supervitality — every other presence about me.
An article
is due, Brian returns to work,
tinies will make a mess of Legos and dress - up clothes in their playroom, the little jumperoo -
baby - thing
is perched on the kitchen floor, we'll have leftovers tonight.
In praise of a quiet house with
tinies playing outside and a
baby taking her naps as God and her mother intended, of street hockey and texts from friends, of refusing to do a single thing that could
be construed as productive.
We had our first three
tinies in four years and then four years after that we added one more
baby to the mix right at the time when my writing began to reach more people and my husband's career also became more demanding and we have never
been so happy and so tired and so everything all at once.
It has
been a busy month with our move in particular, so busy that I hadn't really properly written or worked for the entire time except as snatches during 30 minutes of Phineas and Ferb for the
tinies, so that night after we had cleaned up the supper dishes, I passed the
baby to Brian, he set up the Monopoly board with the
tinies, and I went downstairs to get my work done.
Families
are running for their lives abroad, climbing out of
tiny boats or over fences to hand their
babies to strangers offering help.
«The
baby Jesus
is so
tiny, it
's about the size of the top of your little finger.
Evelynn has decided that it
's time to crawl and I
'm not even close to
being happy about it because, oh, Lord, that
's three
tinies on the move and it
's time to find that old
baby gate again.
So here, this
is me, sweaty and wrestling three
tinies into their winter gear, Evelynn doing her Maggie - Simpson - in - a-snowsuit impression, immobile on the floor as she waits, toques and mitts and boots for stomping loud
are on us all, I strap that big
baby to my chest and we head out, I
am determined, in the dusk.
I
was spinning in our
tiny pink kitchen, with a
baby on my hip, and this
is still my favourite thing in the world to
be their mother.
It
was more
babies and it
was preschool permission slips and making lunches and bedtime reading sessions and saving for the university dreams of no - longer - quite -
tiny tinies.
16,000
babies are born early in the United States because of a little
tiny thing called PM 2.5: Particle matter 2 and a half nitron soot.
I
'm sorting clothes in the laundry room and the
tinies are all watching Little Bear while the
baby shrieks, she just found out she
's in charge of her voice and listen to her holler.
Oh, and that «
s why we fight against stem cell research, because every stem cell
is like a
tiny Carl Sagan
baby.
This new
baby's mouth
was so much smaller than my other two
tinies» and she wouldn't or couldn't latch now.
The books andwebsites on pregnancy cheerfully describe the development of «the
baby», my midwife talks about listening to the
baby's heartbeat and at the 12 - week scan, the time at which the majority of abortions
are carried out, I lay in a darkened room and watched as my
baby's head and spine and
tiny hands
were pointed out on a screen.
Perhaps the humanity of the unborn child that everyone instinctively recognises
is easier to suppress if you don't wake up in the night feeling a
baby turning somersaults inside you nor
be expected to accept chronic sickness because taking anti-nausea drugsmight harm the
tiny life you
are incubating.
When Brian finally blurted into a brief quiet moment that we
were having a new
baby, I
was feeling frazzled and exhausted, Evelynn
was still on the brink of a melt - down, the other two
tinies were starving, and we looked like a three - ring circus to everyone else within range.
There
are mornings when the
baby and I take the
tinies to school, and then come home to a wide - open toy box for her and an open laptop for me to write an article to deadline.
Five
babies have
been born into my own hands, two
were too soon and there
are only three
tinies with me now, and I have learned to lean into the pain.
I could not bear the smell, the sights, the truth of this place, and I saw
babies the age of my
tinies there, naked, hollering HEY YOU snapping sass, and all of my carefully reasoned understandings about how everyone has a different calling and some of us
are just called to different things than poverty relief and caring for orphans stank rank like heresy.
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Babies and toddlers
are fair game, so Evelynn still shows up a lot, particularly on Instagram since we
're together all day while the older
tinies are at school.
Three years and another
baby later,
tiny bits of breathing room have arrived, and I
am finally able to...
And more: this sign of hiddenness points to the fact that the reality of truth and love, the reality of God himself,
is not found in the world of things but beyond it, in the sphere of a new order that this
tiny baby was ushering in.
Volunteers will clean equipment, bottle feed the
baby goats, play with them and, yes, even cuddle with the kiddos, who
are given
tiny, adorable sweaters to protect them from the cold.
There, Charles, their first child
was born but died as a
tiny baby.