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Some backstory, since I’ve only posted about this on Twitter: I got a part-time job! I will be working Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays doing web development for a local company. Wesley will be in daycare Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays for the month of May so I can work on a fast-paced freelance job on my [...]

Wesley turned two on March 25, and we had a big, dinosaur-themed party for him! We had pizza, chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, and fruit salad with a watermelon carved like a Tyrannosaurus Rex! (I followed this tutorial.) —— Wesley has been so funny and so crazy lately; I suppose it’s part of the [...]

I’m going to go ahead and declare that Wesley and I are done breastfeeding. He was on the “every two weeks” plan for quite some time – two months, maybe – and it pleased me that we might be able to hit my goal of breastfeeding for two years. I don’t know if we “officially” [...]

Wesley turned 21 months old on Christmas! I can’t believe he’ll be two in March; I wonder what we’ll do for his birthday? Dinosaurs are a big hit with him and would make a cute theme. Interests He loooooves to stack blocks and arrange like items together. In the photo below, he stacked his plastic [...]

This year, Wesley was Calvin (& Hobbes) for Halloween! We dressed him in a red and navy blue striped shirt and dark pants, and spiked his hair. (This was actually much less successful than I had envisioned it, because his hair is so curly! If you gel it, it turns into ringlets that want to [...]

Most of the time, I try to time my showering while Wesley is napping, because I don’t have to worry about him getting into stuff or hurting himself while he’s awake. Today was a shower day for me, but I didn’t manage to shower before Daniel left for work. Wesley seemed cheerful, so I told [...]

I am so glad we decided to move home right before summer. We’ve had BBQs, swimming, berry-picking, camping, and loads of other things to do. Wesley and his cousin Riley participated in the Kiddie Parade on the 4th of July. Riley steered the tractor (with my brother pulling) and Wesley rode in the wagon. I [...]

Nursing Wesley right now is a difficult thing for me, but not for the reasons you might expect. He’s nearly 16 months old now, and he’s become a quick nurser – usually five minutes or so and he’s done, and he really only nurses a few times during the day. However, since he weaned himself [...]

Wesley turned 15 months old on the 25th, and a few days later came down with some kind of horrible virus. He has a low-grade fever (100-101°F) and a full-body rash that’s the worst on his thighs and bumcheeks. He’s refusing to nurse and won’t nap for more than an hour. Night before last, he [...]

Wesley has learned SO MUCH in the last couple of weeks and I wanted to mention it here so I don’t forget. We’ve been using baby sign language with him intermittently from about 4 months on, but right until he turned a year old we didn’t see anything in response. Then one day, after we [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]