“'You can't give what you don't have,' some people say, and if you want your children to give generosity and kindness and patience to others, you should give them so much they're overflowing with it.”
Sandra Dodd

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In her own time

The last few days, Meredith has slept in her own bed. She did once a few days before we left on holidays, but then was in our bed again the next few nights and then we were traveling. But this week she has wanted to go to her own bed every night. She’s woken up each [...]

Baby Moon

I have been very much enjoying having a newborn around again. I forgot just how precious a tiny, squishy baby really is. We’re nearing the end of Kris being off of work and I am sad to think we won’t have him around all the time soon. It’s nice just because we like having him around, [...]

Coming Back

I just realized it’s been over a month since I last posted. There are so many ideas and posts floating around in my head and half finished as drafts, it surprises me a bit I haven’t published any of them. We have been busy though. My mom came out for a last minute visit and we [...]

Hi baby

Meredith and I were lying in bed together this morning and the baby was rolling and kicking quite vigorously. I asked Meredith if she wants to feel the baby and she nodded so I put her hand on my belly. It took a couple of tries, but eventually the baby did kick right where her hand [...]

Sleeping through the night

A while ago, I posted an article about the Natural Age of Weaning by Dr. Katherine Dettwyler. I recently found another article by the same person about childhood sleep patterns that I feel is very well written and worth a read. Meredith still doesn’t “sleep through the night” by most people’s definitions. Though most nights she [...]

Sleep Training Guide for the Infant

Here’s another cute article from my sister-in-law.

Sleep training from baby’s point of view

Sleep Training…

OK, here’s my situation. My Mommy has had me for almost 7 months. The first few months were great– I cried, she picked me up and fed me, anytime, day or night. Then something happened. Over the last few weeks, she has been trying to STTN (sleep [...]

I’m Back (maybe!)

I’ve been pretty quiet, but I want to start writing more again. I keep telling myself that I’ll have more to say when Meredith is a little older and we can do some fun activities and experiments together, but I realized that part of the reason I haven’t been writing as much is because we already [...]

Hidden crib dangers

So I suck at this post every day for a month thing. Oh well! I tried at least. Maybe next time.

I came across this article today and thought I would share it. There are so many misconceptions and misinformation about cosleeping, that it’s nice to see an article about the dangers of cribs for once. (Not [...]

Split Lip

Meredith split her lip last night. Poor baby. She was playing with Kris on a hill and fell and bit right through her lip. Both sides were bleeding and today it’s very puffy. We were a bit on the fence on whether to take her to the ER for stitches, but it stopped bleeding [...]

Been a while…

We have been pretty busy here, with company, weddings, fairs, and more.  Plus, Meredith has been wanting to spend all of her awake time at the park here.  Since we’re approaching rainy season and I want to spend less time on the computer anyway (especially now that she’s older), we tend to go there a lot [...]