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I have a prenatal appointment! Â Well, sort-of. Â I have a tentative appointment with the on-call midwife next Wednesday. Â That means if a woman is in labor, I won’t be seen, but if not then I am in luck. Â I will probably be around 11-12 weeks along. Â That is my guess, of course. Â If I go [...]
James is potty trained. I think I forgot to mention it on the blog. It kinda just happened. We did nothing special; James did all the work and kept the motivation going for himself. I’m glad it was easy because I was not going to pretend to be excited over something I expected of him. [...]
Due to a payment snafu, our website was down for a week. Â But we’ve been busy…
Oops, we did it again! Â #3 is due in December!
I’ll be back later with house updates, as soon as I’m over this wave of queasiness.
I think we are the only ones in the world that don’t give a single thing to our kids for Easter. Nope, not a single egg. Not a single candy, not a single bunny, not one darn thing. And what’s cool is that they don’t know the difference. I wonder how many more years we [...]
James is officially *almost* potty trained, sort of. I know it sounds weird but it’s a process and we’re probably about 3/4ths of the way there. He only wears a diaper (over his big boy underwear) for naptime and at night and the rest of the time he is just in his underwear. I’m kinda [...]
I updated our photos page. Hadn’t done anything since July of ’07 so I have about seven months’ worth of pictures to add. I like having those collages because it gives me a good overview of all the pics we took and when we took them just in case I’m searching for anything specific.
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So, I’ve been nursing for over two years now. James weaned at 13 months of age due to my pregnancy and the pain and a drop in supply, but Lowell is still going strong with 5 nursing sessions each day. Low and behold, breastmilk has been found to contain stem cells. Amazing. I really [...]
I am trying to get both boys sleeping in the same room. This would allow us to use the first bedroom as a toy room (at first) and a packing room (in a few months as we prepare to buy and move into a house) while the garage becomes the box-storage room. I am thinking [...]
James was in the shopping cart, grabbed this apple, and bit into it before I could turn around and get it out of his hands. He picked a BIG ‘UN. Of course, we had to buy it after the bite.
So, I got a new haircut and new color too, so things are feeling pretty good these days. I’m really sick of being inside so much in such a little place with a 2.5 year old that doesn’t give me a moment’s peace (Do you have shoulders, mommy? Can you point to your elbow, mommy? [...]
This is one of my favorites of Lowell to date. The focus is fantastic on his eyes and the expression on his face captures his personality perfectly.
He got over his ear infection pretty quickly, only to have James come down with one a few days later. THEN, as luck would have it, [...]
We are, for all intents and purposes, fully recovered from the ear infection Lowell had last week. He’s still on antibiotics until it’s gone. I think there are only about 2 more doses left in that little bottle. He started feeling better the third day on the antibiotics and started babbling again. He’s pretty [...]
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