Yesterday, Coco turned ten months old. And she said mama. Is that even possible? I didn’t think it was, so I just thought to myself, “oh, how cute…” And then, I promptly forgot about it. I’ve written before about Pea’s refusal to speak until the very day that she turned two. It was so frustrating [...]

Coco is coming up on 10 months, in just a few days. It’s hard for me to imagine that when I first started writing this blog, she was a mere five weeks old. She was tiny and sweet and she slept. My God, did she sleep. For hours and hours. And while I know that [...]

Time out from hell. This afternoon. My den. Two minutes that lasted about twenty. It involved a slap on the head, a sweater and a door hinge. What? What is she talking about? Pea wouldn’t stay in her corner for the timeout that she was getting for smacking her little sis on the head. That [...]

I’ve noticed over the last few days that Pea has been overly interested in her hair. And by interested, I mean she’s been pulling it out, a strand here and a strand there. I assumed that since she was sick and was a snot machine that she was pulling out pieces that were “sticky and [...]

Day 4 of Pea’s ear infection and we are finally getting kind of close to seeing the end of this thing. It’s been brutal. Her sleep, which was finally on track, has just gone to hell. She snores so loudly we can hear her all the way upstairs. She cries in her sleep, she’s thrown [...]

Today was my first Friday with our new nanny, Jen. She came in at 10 this morning, watched Coco while I took Pea to the park. Just the two of us. For a glorious hour of swinging and chasing each other down the slides. We threw dried leaves at one another. Laid in the grass [...]

We have hired a part-time nanny. I prefer to call her a babysitter, but she prefers the term nanny. Which I understand, it sounds more like a profession than a weekend job, right? Anyway, she’s the same babysitter that I found back in August and we all adore her. She’s in grad school, is multi-lingual [...]

I found this old picture of Pea and me on my computer this morning. I don’t really remember it being taken, can’t even really say how old she was in it. Somewhere around two months, I’m guessing? I like it. A lot. Once I get past Pea not looking anything like the butter-ball in this [...]

Last night was Pea’s first night in her new bed, and it went pretty well. I was prepared to get no sleep at all, but since she refused to nap yesterday, she was absolutely exhausted when we put her down at 7:30. She sang to herself for a little while and then was silent. I [...]

Today, I went with Pea to the mall. I don’t like this mall. I don’t really like any mall. But I needed to try this product by Bobbi Brown that was supposedly going to change my life. Well, maybe not my life, but at least the occasional undereye dark circles I’ve been suffering from of [...]

When Coco was just a couple of weeks old, I can remember distinctly being at The Little Gym with my older daughter and telling the other mothers (more like bragging to the other mothers) that life with a newborn was so easy this time around because Coco was such a master sleeper already. Five hours [...]

It’s not going so well today. Last night was a nightmare. Coco was up every two hours, no big deal since she’s teething hard and I know how tough it’s been for her. But we made the mistake of putting the girls in the same room together, somehow forgetting that Pea is the world’s lightest [...]

I love horses. Like really, really love horses. Since I can remember… There’s a picture of me at about 9 months old perched atop a large grey horse at a farm in upstate New York, my proud mother holding onto me, and that picture has been ingrained in my mind for all of these years. [...]

I take Pea to The Little Gym on Tuesdays. We go year-round, but I think it’s particularly important for her to go during the summer, because often it is just too unbearably hot to play outside, and she needs somewhere to go to get out all of her energy. This kid has boundless energy. If [...]

I am not supposed to say the following, but I’m going to say it anyway: sometimes I feel like a single parent. I am home alone so much with the girls, days and sometimes weeks on end, while my husband is out traveling the world for work. And it’s good work, I’m not saying I’m [...]