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New Parent
2009-09-28 22:13
Q. My 3 month old is constantly sucking at her fists and fingers. Does this mean she is not eating enough? She sleeps through the night (12 hours) and eats a 6-oz bottle every 2-3 hours during the day. Thanks for your feedback. (www.pediatrics.about.com)
A. Dear Drama Queen:
You obviously don't...
Silver Lining
2009-09-28 21:26
So after another awesomely bad day at work, I picked Sophie up. She was thrilled to see me. She smiled and waived and waited patiently for me to gather her belongings before whisking her away to the house. While Wesley and I discussed all of the sordid details of my terrible, horrible,...
Last First Word
2009-09-27 22:39
"Hey". It was so simple, but deliberate. She repeated it in the same sing songy voice that I used. Then she said it again, and again. It was exciting and sad at the same time. It's the last first word we'll have in the house. She's holding her own bottle, trying to...
Interims
2009-09-25 19:20
I remember when I was a kid. Interim reports went out in the middle of each quarter to let parents know how their kids were doing, I guess so they had a chance to get on them to improve grades before report cards came out. My mother had very high expectations, even for interims, and...
Sibling Revelry
2009-09-23 21:44
Tonight was one of those few blissful evenings when the kids managed to get along for more than 5 minutes. They started off by wrestling one another, then chased each other around the house, and finished with hide-and-go-seek. I think my favorite part was Victoria hiding...
Crushed
2009-09-22 21:25
My horrible week reached its pinnacle this evening when Wesley and the kids took Buster out for a walk. One of our neighbors saw the dog and identified him as belonging to a girl who lives down the street. We explained to Trevor that we were going to have to give him back to his owners...
Relationships
2009-09-20 18:54
Q. Should I end my relationship??
Hi Everyone,
I am a newbie and am after some advice on my relationship.
I am a 40 year old woman and my partner is 28 (I know, quite a large age gap) and we have been together for 18 months.
Intially, when I started dating my partner, I saw it as harmfless fun....
Kingpin
2009-09-20 18:15
Today I discovered my son is a hustler. We took the kids bowling today, which was just supposed to be innocent fun. What it turned into was a cutthroat competition between me and a 7-year-old.
The first game should have clued me in that this kid may have untapped talent. He beat me...
Rules are meant to be broken
2009-09-18 22:52
When I decided to do this website, I was provided a set of rules. One was never to blog about work, since we have 3 kids, and it's all about the Benjamins (or, Washingtons, in our case). The other was not to write anything too personal about our family and definitely not our...
I got mad skills
2009-09-18 13:20
It's a rare day off for me today without the kids, so I decided to explore my artistic talent. Turns out I have none.
It's Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. I'm tempted to say Victoria painted them. That's probably believable.
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