So I fell asleep on the couch tonight. I woke up and came up to bed at 2:20. At the tone, the time will be 4:16 and 30 seconds and I haven’t been back to sleep yet. 😒 Bea is having a rave in my stomach and Ace will be up soon. He’s almost guaranteed […]
Dinner at Home – Roasted Chicken, Carrots and Bok Choy
I try to cook dinner at home as much as possible. And I try to use what I call Primary ingredients as much as possible. Not sure if that’s a technical term or not, but that’s how I refer to them. They are ingredients that are unprocessed and without preservatives and that are not pre-mixed. […]
Toddler Speech and Language
At our house, we are very deliberate about toddler speech and language. Right from the very beginning, we have decided to talk to Ace with regular words rather than use baby talk. It was bottle, instead of bah-bah. Water instead of wah-wah. And Auntie instead of Tee-Tee. We never wanted to talk down to Ace […]
Pumping and Nursing Logs – Free and Printable
When I had to switch from trying to nurse to exclusively pumping, I felt like I had to track my output. I’d been told that when you nurse, the baby will just take as much as they need and stop when they’re full. But when I pumped, I wasn’t sure how much he would need […]
Toddler Shoes for Ace
For the longest time, Ace didn’t wear any shoes, let alone toddler shoes. I would see a lot of kids his age, especially the little girls with all sorts of cute shoes, matching their outfits. But I stayed the course. My goal was to keep him out of shoes as long as possible. I wanted […]
Balls and Backpacks
Every day, Ace picks the toy he wants to take over grandma’s house to play with that day. Normally it’s one of his balls. But lately, he’s been taking his backpack he got for Christmas. Today, I asked him several times if we wanted to put one of his balls in his bag, but he […]
A Toddler Bed and Big Boy Room for Ace
With Bea’s arrival quickly approaching, we need to execute on Operation:Get the Kids’ Rooms in Order. Ace is moving to the guest room down the hall which is a little farther from us but larger. Bea will take his old room. One of the biggest question marks I’m running into is whether to get Ace […]
Cloth Diapers – and Why We Don’t Use Them
Cloth Diapers for Consideration I love being as natural as possible about my stuff. No chemicals, additives, or extras for me, if I can help it. And I’m all about saving money. So you would think re-usable cloth diapers would be right up my alley. I thought so too. Back when I was pregnant with […]
Eating While Standing
So Ace has been eating solid food since he was six months old. He tries a lot of different things and definitely has his favorites. But he’s never really eaten very big portions. I know that he’ll eat what he can handle, but sometimes I feel like he gets distracted by other things and just […]
Pregnancy and Being a New Mom – Part 3
After going through the hazing that is pregnancy and birth, my blissful maternity leave was quickly coming to an end. And as difficult as those two months were, I wanted nothing more than to stay at home with my sweet baby boy. But alas, I was a contract employee and being off meant being unpaid, […]