Sweetie Pie is now ten months old and not only has she not yet slept through the night, but her sleeping is… getting… WORSE!!!! Last night I nursed her three times, rocked her, walked her, patted her to no avail–she still cried for two and a half hours. I ended up calling poor Adam while [...]
One of the joys of parenthood is how you can have six amazing hours with your children that can be erased in a matter of minutes. Last Friday we were supposed to head north to go swimming with Alisa, Jeff, and Keegan. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t comply, so we agreed to meet at the Discovery [...]
I used to think that surprises were a key part of a birthday. Now I know that it’s even more fun to have the beans spilled ahead of time. A few weeks ago, I was running into the library with Doodles. I didn’t want to bring the whole diaper bag, so I just grabbed my [...]
I had fully intended on blogging more tonight, commenting a bit on the article that Eugene linked to in his blog that says that children not only don’t bring happiness to parents, but parents are happiest when the kids grow up and leave them, and I probably was going to blog about how happy I [...]
Doodles’s new favorite song is “Puff the Magic Dragon.” We were listening to it the other morning, and when it was done, Doodles asked me, “Can we listen to ‘Kumbayah?’” Be still my bleeding-liberal heart. And Adam? In your face!
At Sweetie Pie’s nine month doctor’s appointment, the doc told me I could put Pie on whole milk at 11 1/2 months. I’m not sure when I’ll wean here from br*eastfeeding, but you can sure as hell bet that I’m not going to pump one single day more than I absolutely have to. I figure [...]
For all you folks out there planning on having more than one child, let me give you a piece of advice: Have two children of the same gender. Really, it’ll save you so much stress and eye strain, because children of two different genders means your reading list is twice as long. Here is a [...]
Ah, back from vacation. I so didn’t want to return. We had such a lovely time and I dreaded coming back to cell phones, e-mail, Internet, work, and all the other joys of home. But come back we did and it’s really not so bad. This is one of those cases where the trip is [...]
I ran the Covered Bridges Half Marathon on our vacation. First let me say, the name is somewhat of a misnomer. We ran over exactly one covered bridge. However we did pass another and regardless the scenery was absolutely stunning. What an amazing half. It’s quite difficult to get into the race–they open registration in [...]
I’ve been f*cking with Louise. I just can’t help myself. I don’t know if it’s the snooty British accent or just her absolute certainty but I dig messing with Louise’s mind. Which would be logical if Louise had a mind. But really, if I say I’m f*cking with a computer chip, then I’m the one [...]