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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love these!!  Do me, please?  One child: Nathaniel.[/quote]

You couldn't wait to be pregnant for the first time and it all happened pretty smoothly. Conception. Check. First Ultrasound. Check. Easy Pregnancy. Check. Routine Delivery with epidural. Check. But when it came to breastfeeding, things were not so easy and you were pretty upset about that. Happily Nathaniel thrived and he was an easy-going baby with a head full of curls. Now that he is eight he is starting to roll his eyes when he sees that all too familiar gesture....a stranger's hand reaching towards his curly head and he quickly moves out of the way. He's a quick boy, both physically and mentally. He's one of the top soccer players on his team which makes you swell with pride, but you would never gloat about that on the field, only in bed late at night with your husband when the two of you go through the game move by move. He's also gifted with math and has always been in the advanced math group. But he struggles with reading and writing which is frustrating since you love reading and writing so much yourself. You patiently work on it with him each night and telling yourself that boys just take a little longer in that department. You long for him to spend long summer days immersed in books like you used to be. Your husband doesn't have that dream. Instead, he worries about Nate's shyness and tries to encourage him to approach kids where ever you happen to be...local park, library, etc. It usually ends in disaster, but you don't quite know how to prevent their mutual disappointment. It is clear that your husband is struggling with the fact that he is an extrovert, raising an introvert and that is foreign territory for him. You hang out a lot at the Turtle Park in the AU neighborhood and do weekly trips to Whole Foods/Whole Paycheck, but you keep meaning to sign up for a CSA.  You like documentary films, Jane Austen, and The Dave Matthews Band (from your days in Charlottesville). You dream about taking Nathaniel out of school for an entire year to travel the world while homeschooling him and showing him the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, and Machu Picchu. You hate your book club but you keep going because you don't want to explain why you stopped going. You used to love skinny dipping and think you might return to that when you are older and have your own little lake front cottage in Michigan. Nate will be horribly embarrassed by thought of his mother skinny dipping, but secretly thrilled that she has an adventurous past. [/quote]

So much fun, thank you!!  Nate is only 5 months and we had a very difficult time with everything from conception (IVF) all the way through delivery (emergency c-section), but I love your vision of him as an 8 year old. :). I am a huge reader, and would be thrilled if he enjoys it the way I did as a kid, and will be a little sad if he doesn't.  I already daydream about taking him traveling everywhere.  And LOL on the book club!!  That would be me exactly if I were in one![/quote]

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