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Understanding Your Newborn

Newborns are tricky, they are about as unpredictable as the numbers for winning the lotto. What’s that you say? You figured your newborn out day one? Lucky.. For those of you who haven’t been able to figure out those newborn squeaks or…

Baby Food: Avocado Adventures

Four days of sweet potato and we have now moved on to avocados. Luckily, no allergic reactions but by the third day, Baby C didn't really want to eat the sweet potatoes anymore. My husband and I tried them and they actually tasted like…

Fun Earth Day Crafts

Baby C and I love sitting outside and watching the birds, especially the hummingbirds fly around the peach tree in our backyard. We have a really big peach tree which is great for shade and delicious fruit! Last week, we bought Baby C a…

Happy Earth Day!

Monday, April 22, 2013 is Earth Day! We are celebrated last week at our local Earth/Arbor Day Festival. It was our first time going and we had a great time! We picked up some free mulch, a free tree, ladybugs for our rose bushes and…

Keep Calm and Hug Your Kids

This week has definitely been a crazy week with everything going on in the news.  The people of Boston and Texas are in our thoughts and prayers and I hope that the healing can now begin. I’m not sure what motivates people to commit acts…

Introducing Tummy Time To Your Baby

The day after we brought Baby C home from the hospital we read through the discharge papers and it said to start tummy time as early as 2 weeks. I was hesitant because Baby C was so tiny but my husband said, "he'll be fine" and put Baby C…

Baby Food: Sweet Potato Adventures

This was my first time making baby food and there were some hiccups but overall it was a success.  After reading many books and talking to a lot of my friends, we decided to start with sweet potato. By the way, sweet potato is not the…

Bedtime Routines For Babies

I attended a @shespeaksup #PampersDryBaby Twitter Party on April 10 and it got me thinking about our bedtime routines. There were a lot of great tips but the ones that stuck out in my mind were:  be consistent with a bedtime routine; be…

Family Fun: Softball Sundays

Daddy plays on a co-ed softball league on Sundays so Baby C and I go and cheer him on. A majority of the players have babies between 5 months to 2 years old so it is fun for the kids to play together. I usually hang out with the kids or…

Teething? Or just Fussy?

Baby C’s not sick, no runny rose or cough…he’s fussy during the day, sleeping a lot more, drooling excessively and gnawing on everything. There was one day that he had a 99 degree temperature but overall its been about 98.8 degree. We can…

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