We have tried potty training Pea on several occasions. Those occasions usually ended with me saying “screw it,” and tossing another diaper on her. It’s not that I didn’t think she was ready, I’m sure she was. Perhaps I was lazy? Or just the most impatient mother in the world? Seriously, you pull down your [...]

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that Pea just refuses to stop and have her diaper changed. It’s infuriating. She will run around, stinking up the joint, and when one of us asks her if she has a poop, she will defiantly answer “no.” And we know she does, so we take the [...]

I love to shop at Target. I don’t know a mother who doesn’t. You can find everything under the sun there, and it’s all going to be pretty chic, too. I don’t know how they manage to do it, get in all of these really cutting edge designers and have them design [...]

My mother, GiGi, flew in on Friday afternoon from Chicago to spend the weekend with us. Well, to spend it with the girls. It was a whirlwind affair, a lot of shopping, a bit of eating and a lot of she and Pea sitting at Pea’s little table and chairs in a corner [...]

Every Sunday, we go as a family out for an early lunch at our favorite Tex-Mex restaurant. It’s a fairly new “tradition,” but one which we have all fallen in love with fairly quickly. Pea prefaces the outing by running around the house chanting “I want a big bowl of cheeeeeeese…” That [...]

I am tired. We sleep trained Coco a few weeks ago, to great success, but the brief trip to NYC really did us in. She’s back to waking up again every two hours or so and I just don’t have the energy to let her cry it out right now. It’s so [...]

Pea starts preschool on Wed. As in two days from today. I can’t believe how quickly two years can go by. It seems like just yesterday when I was claiming to have no interest in sending her off to school, I would just miss her too much. Sob. How quickly that all changed! Guiltily, I [...]

Saying “thank you” is one of the first polite terms that we taught Pea. She said, and says, thank you for everything. For her favorite snack, a diaper change, bubbles in the bath. Just about any and everything warrants a “thank you.” My mother taught me the same some 30-something [...]

Oh my gosh, Coco is teething. Hard. I’m changing her shirts up to six times a day (and sometimes her pants, too!) because of all the drool. Both of my shoulders are sore from being gummed by her, as are my fingers. And my once happy-to-sleep-all-night little baby is now waking [...]

Tee-tee is Pea’s term for “pee-pee.” Every time one of our dogs goes outside, she says “tee-tee!” So I know she understands the concept. But imagine my surprise when a few hours ago, she announced to me while in the bathroom having one of her boo-boos bandaged, that she wanted to go [...]

Pea had her first day of “camp” today. I dropped her off at 9 am sharp, and as soon as we parked and got onto the grass, she took off from me, running to the front door of the school. She never looked back. Never. She grabbed her teacher’s hand, and [...]

We took Pea to a local nursery school this morning to meet with the Director and possibly enroll her for the fall term. She seems so ready to be in a classroom with other children, learning and growing. It shocks me somewhat that they are enrolling children so early these days. I [...]

Coco is just coming up on 8 weeks, so I figure now is as good a time as any to try and introduce her to a bottle. This is a dream of mine, that she will willingly take one, so that I can get more than an hour out of the house by myself [...]

On Wednesday evening at about 6:30, Sweet Pea was in the bath when we lost power. Everyone on my side of the street lost power. This would ordinarily not be a big deal except for two reasons 1) the people directly across the street from us did not lose power and 2) [...]

OHMYGAWD! My little baby girl, whom I will call Coco, is all of 5 weeks and 5 days old, and last night she slept for SEVEN STRAIGHT HOURS! I put her down in her crib at 10 and didn’t hear from her until 5 this morning. In general, she’s been a decent [...]