Author: Phoebe Gleeson

Mama and baby in our @softstarshoes
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Dorothy ready to play, waiting for a big sister to get shoes on.
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Lining things is a delight to the possibly autistibaby! Also stacking. She burbles to herself while she sorts. #autism
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The wet chalk is so vibrant!
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Cold snap coming tonight. They won’t be so eager to be in shirtsleeves tomorrow!
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Wild blue yonder. #nofilter
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Clementine prepares Dorothy for the stew pot.
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Toe gore! I can’t quite get the shades of purple and green with the phone, oh well. Enjoy your breakfast! PS: not broken, yay! #zombietoe
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Smashed toe hurts like a mofo! #owww #chair1toe0 #gore
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My bookends. Clementine really, really likes to sit in Faith’s lap and push crayons into the spaces between her (Faith’s) fingers.
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Trixie drew this curvy poofy princess. I love her knees and her cleavage.
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A sleeved In Threes for a gift! Yarn is Cascade Eco, in Chocolate. #knitting #inthrees #cardigan #babysweater
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Dorothy says they are in their rocketships.
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My Gilbert. Looks like my older brother.
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Four kids and a cat.
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#threadless has great customer service! They sent Faith the wrong shirt, and when I emailed them all I told them was the shirt she should have gotten, no order number and not from the same email as the original order. Treating that as a trig problem, apparently, they solved for proper address using my last name and told me a new shirt was on the way, no need to return the wrong one.
Way to go Threadless!
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Meatloaf for Martinmass! #newtradition
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Bede has a fever, which means he can communicate much more clearly than he usually does. He also feels miserable, which means I had to give him ibuprofen. Which means the fever effect won’t last as long. I wish they could figure out how to induce it without a fever. #autism #fevereffect
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Some visible gray!
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Clementine attends to the important task of stuffing my shoes with crayons. #babyskills
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Some Miyazaki to start the day. #heyletsgo
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Love these kids so much.
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I roasted a butternut squash and I’m the only one who likes it! #moreforme #howcanthisbe
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Kids reading books. Gloria is reading Dinosaurs Before Dark and Gilbert is reading The Sign of the Beaver. #homeschooling #trufaxhouse
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Dorothy seems to have osmotically picked up all the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. Some of the kids have done that and read on their own, early, some have done it and read later. It’s fun to watch when reading “clicks” for them. Right now, the letters make sounds and have names much like cows or cars. It’s stringing them together, that’s where the magic happens.
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Quine sleeps HARD. #zzzzz
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Dorothy tossed and turned all night and is very stuffed up this morning. She had a fever three days ago and I guess this is the end result. So she, Clementine and I are at home while Sean has the rest at Mass. I don’t like missing Mass but I didn’t want to be that guy, the one who sits by the newborn with a coughing, sniffly kid. #stayhomewhenyouresick
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