Just packing it all in

We’ve spent the last few nights packing and packing and packing. Oh, and watching The Voice. Isn’t Juliette awesome? And packing some more. And still our house is about half packed, and I’m finding myself at a stand still. I can’t pack ALL our toys away. The babies would be sad. I can’t pack all [...]

My favorite age.

I find it incredibly cool how much babies change as they age. There are huge differences in their behaviors, quirks, and personalities month from month. It’s almost like they have multiple personality disorder, except, you know minus the medication and crazy part. As adults, we change, but in slow-motion. I’m certainly not the person I [...]

Poor, pitiful, little Beebab.

You know it’s going to be a long day when the morning nap starts before 7:00AM. Yesterday, a cold hit Arlo HARD. It happened so quickly, I didn’t even have the necessary supplies on hand (Vick’s and Boogie Wipes, of course). I had Taylor squirt some saline up his nose and gave him a dose [...]

Beebab says, “mama,” and my voice is annoying.

Also? This kid is punishing. Push him past his limits and he lets you know. I have it on video for proof.

Come meet the Beebab.

Beebab. That’s the nickname Sully gave Arlo when we brought him home from the hospital. He looked at him and said, clear as day, “Oh, my Beebab!” And it stuck. Somedays, I call him Arlo just to say it. Usually, he is known as Beebab to anyone around him. I wonder what he’ll think of [...]

Someone got a hair cut.

I know. I fought it for so long, but I couldn’t deny it anymore. It was most definitely time for Arlo to get a hair cut. So at a little under eight-months-old, the Littlest received his first trim. I don’t have pictures of the process (sorry, my dearest second child). In fact, I wasn’t even [...]

Be still, my heart.

My kids aren’t perfect. They aren’t always sweet, little angels who listen and obey (I’m talking ’bout the toddler especially). I spend much of my day shaking my head and muttering, “Seriously?!” while I clean up yet another mess or wipe another hiney. There are many nights when Taylor walks through the door and I [...]

Our snooze buttons are broken.

Call me naive, but I really thought once I got through the “sleep training” phase, I would have perfect, little angels who slept all night long and made me happy. In fact, up until recently, Sullivan was that perfect nighttime baby. He would go down for bed at pricisely 7:00PM and wake up somewhere between [...]

A word about the biggest.

Sometimes in the hussle and bussle of life, I find it easy to forget to really take a minute to think about who my children are becoming every day. We have our routine of meals and diapers and errands. Of books and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and outside time. But I don’t always stop to really [...]

When having two starts getting really fun…

Now that we’re slowly out of the whole, “Oh holy crap what did I do?! This is crazy! I’ll never sleep/eat/talk/dream again with a baby on me!” stage, things are started to get a little more exciting around these parts. When we first brought Arlo home, Sully was kind of disinterested. He didn’t dislike him, [...]

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