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I have left myself next to no time to actually write this post, so I will keep it short. My baby boy turned one year old today, and I can’t believe how quickly time has gone. It seems like just the other day he was a smooshy little newborn and now he is zoom-zoom-zooming everywhere! [...]

I have some exciting news! Ready? I have given my notice at my job, and we are moving back home to Idaho. This is one of those times I wish I felt comfortable talking about my workplace on my blog, but I do not. Suffice to say, things got weird, people I admire and respect [...]

I accidentally fed Wesley bites of straight-up jam instead of baby food this weekend SOMEBODY (Daniel) decided to put jam in a baby food jar for some unspecified reason, and said jam looks identical to the apple-blueberry-mango food we made for Wesley. After his first few bites, I noticed the texture was… off somehow, and [...]

As most of you know, my pregnancy with Wesley ended in an emergency cesarean section due to pre-eclampsia. My kidneys had more or less stopped working, so despite feeling fine, I was told that it was time for things to get a move on. (Delivery is the only cure for pre-eclampsia.) Initially I was very, [...]

A week ago, poor Mister Wesley had his first incident report at daycare. It reads as follows: Wesley was cruising along the wall. He fell when transferring from table to crib. He smacked the right side of his face on the white floor. I put ice on it and gave him extra loves. He returned [...]

Ten months after Wesley was born, we finally took the plunge and bought him a crib. (This is the manufacturer’s photo – our bedroom is less photogenic.) Prior to this, he sometimes slept in his Arm’s Reach Cosleeper Crib, but mostly slept between us in our bed. It was getting to the point where his [...]

This article is driving me nuts. It talks about “special infant formula” that “may protect against Type 1 Diabetes” even though they are not sure exactly how the highly hydrolyzed proteins in that special formula actually help. I object to the complete omission of the fact that breastfeeding protects against Type 1 Diabetes (among other [...]

Best for Babes is calling for women to share their “Booby Traps” – stories of being set up to fail at breastfeeding. They will present these stories to the Surgeon General and the media to try to illustrate the setbacks and hurdles women face when they want to breastfeed. Here are mine: C-section and delayed [...]

What Wesley eats at daycare is one area in which I am continually annoyed, baffled, or unsure. He was exclusively breastfed until six months, at which point we started giving him some of whatever we were eating. He seemed to hate everything except pears, so we didn’t push the issue. Then a couple of the [...]

We traveled to Idaho for Wesley’s first Christmas! He had a great time and so did we. I think his favorite toy was the green ball he got from Grammie Angie and Grandpa Ronnie: My favorite photo from the vacation: Those EYEBROWS, oh my goodness. I don’t know what he was doing but I love [...]

I just found something that I never knew existed but now really, really want: MARTHA STEWART CRAFTING FURNITURE. What a genius idea. Crafting specific furniture! No longer will you have to suffer through making do with crap furniture that doesn’t solve your organizational problems! There are shelves and drawers for all your needs! Martha, I [...]

There are so many nice things I could say about The Quilting Bee, but this holiday season I want to highlight just one: Holiday Cards I’m at an age where I know practically nobody aside from my cousins that sends out holiday cards. And I LOVE receiving cards! Every year on the Qbee forum, a [...]

I just saw this “Mommy Guilt” article linked in a BabyCenter newsletter and one of the points about TV caught my attention. Here’s what that point had to say: But if you break this rule, you’re not alone: A poll of BabyCenter moms reveals that only 10 percent of moms with toddlers forbid TV completely. [...]

After stumbling across this Ask Metafilter post about approaching parents of a newborn to tell them their baby is making too much noise, it reminded me how absolutely stressed I was about this before bringing Wesley home. My main point of anxiety revolved around the neighbors not signing up to bring home a newborn even [...]

Those of you with babies (or tiny people who used to be babies) – do they watch any television? I ask because we don’t have TV. I mean, we have a television, one that we use for the Xbox and other gaming consoles and to watch DVDs and VHS tapes, but we don’t get any [...]