Sometimes when you’re on the second child, you’re able to feel like you really know something. You take what happened with your first child (test baby) and are able to apply it to the second child in a way that makes everything better/easier/more awesome.… Continue Reading “When your baby jumps out of their crib (but is really too young for a toddler bed)”
I didn’t plan on it, and it honestly caught me off guard. Isn’t the way it goes, with parenting, so much of the time? Little C — who turned 20 months old on Christmas Day — decided it was time to be potty-trained. She’d… Continue Reading “Potty-training the littlest”
Now that we’re finally settling into our new lives — that are officially crazy-ville with scheduled activities — I’m catching my breath and taking a second to tell you about it. D now goes to preschool two mornings a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays), takes… Continue Reading “Mornings with my girl”
Barbies make the world go ’round I’ve admitted before that I used to be terrified about having a son. Absolutely terrified. Growing up in a household with only girls, my limited experience with little boys was that they were of the grubby, loud, rambunctious,… Continue Reading “The thing about boys + girls”
D getting stuck inside his many sweatshirts Five things our almost-three-year-old son, D, is obsessed with right now … Sweatshirts, especially zip-up ones (It’s been a very chilly late-May here in Canada) Riding in Daddy’s car (Mommy’s van is not cool, as even a… Continue Reading “Five things”