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Shleepy Shleep Shleep
Oh, sweet Gracie Girl. You goofy little thing. This baby doll makes me smile and smile and smile. She is almost four months old now and becoming quite the socialite. She’s getting much…
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Holy Stealing
This Sunday after church, we picked Bean up from his Sunday School room like we do every week. Then, he walked with us down to the nursery to get Gracie, like he does…
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Potty Camp, 2011
I blogged a couple months ago about how we were starting to introduce potty training to Bean. Step One for us began right when Bean first started telling us that he needed a…
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Bedtime x2
You know what I’ve learned about myself as a parent lately? The more I wing it, the better I do. The minute I try to organize or control something, everyone is miserable –…
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Food, Fireworks, and Burnt Fingers
The 4th of July at our house this year was pretty low key. We were in our pajamas until about 2:00 when we decided it was time to get our acts together and…
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A Sign of the Times
Signs That You’re Parents of an Infant You count time in four-hour intervals. You wake up every couple hours at night – some because the baby is crying and some because she’s not.…
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A Healthy Marriage
We took Bean to the pediatrician for this two-year-old check up a couple weeks ago and they confirmed what we had already suspected. He’s a pipsqueak. Bean’s in the 5th percentile for weight.…
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Fussy Babies ROCK!
Ahhh…Gracie Girl. Gracie Girl, Gracie Girl, Gracie Girl. What can I say about Gracie Girl? For the first two months of Gracie’s little life, feeding her was a complete nightmare. Without going into…
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Soak Up the Fun
Staying home on maternity leave (and now summer break from school) has left me sometimes feeling a little guilty. At the end of every day, I look around and ask myself if I…