As in, my precious, sweet, lovely, happy baby girl is a fabulous sleeper, as long as she is cuddled up next to me, resting her head on my shoulder and holding my hand in hers. Yeah, remember that whole sleep issue? No? 'Cause you can totally read about it here and here and here and also right here and totally here and yes, here and ...
I just stumbled upon this little old thing
here, and I realized how much changes in 6 months, and how much, actually, stays the same.
The sunny spot.
No matter what time of day it is, or what room she is sitting in, my Lola always manages to find the sunny spot, small as it may be, to stretch out and bask and nap upon. The entire house could be dark and gloomy, or filled with energy and sound, and, without fail, Lola will have found the one, small slit of light and ...
“Oh, look out you rock ‘n rollers”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQ0Ryy01yE] There were a lot of changes-- a lot of new-- in the land of mom this week. Having a lot to be thankful for also comes with some major adjustments. "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else." I didn't write that. Ralph Waldo Emerson did. And, he's right. Obviously. He's Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...
Give me a head with hair
My daughter just woke up from a 2 1/2 hour nap with a mohawk. This means 2 things: She had a heck of a 2 1/2 hours and She. Has. Hair. Flow it, show it, baby. Flow it, show it.
The Bold and the Bootyful
A few years back, a veteran mother told me something that I have never forgotten; She said that the sign of a true mother is a woman who can spot her child's runny nose from across the room, wipe the kid's snot with her bare hand and then wipe it off on her own jeans. At the time, (long before I ...
My mommy, (ever after),
So today, as my mom, my daughter and I drove past the zoo, I spotted the enormous, magical looking Zooballoon, anchored to the ground. Me: Would you ever go up on the Zooballoon? Mom: (softly) It's my dream. Me: What?!? Seriously?!? Mom: It is. It's my dream to go up in it. I want daddy to propose to me in ...
Once upon a snowy sundown,
I stretched out on my sweet baby girl's floor, as we listened to music, and then my girl crawled over to me, and she planted her two palms on either side of my face and lowered her two tiny rose-colored lips onto mine. And she lingered there. And I was whole. And that, my friends, is what they are talking about when they write Happily Ever After. ...
I know that you won’t believe me when I tell you this,
but the baby and I are currently watching Dirty Dancing, and, at just the right moment my baby (not to be confused with Baby Houseman) pulled herself up, pinned herself up to the back of her crib and did a dip. Just. Like. This. (thank you to the beautiful Without Melissa for this image, as her site was the only place I ...
when you decide to give your 10 month old a pedicure,
This is bound to happen. Still, totally worth it.
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