A few nights ago my husband and I heard the inevitable kaboom of our toddler lifting herself over the side of her crib and landing on . . . God knows what body part. Sasha seemed fine but we didn’t want to risk that happening again, so the next night we took the side off […]
I’ve been wanting to write this post for awhile but have been waiting for a TV show birth for timeliness. But the Up All Night birth came and went, as did two Parenthood births, and somehow I couldn’t get it together to post. So here it goes now, sans timeliness. Back when I was pregnant […]
If you have a toddler, you probably know this video: Sasha has watched what she calls “Counting to the Number Four” so many times that she can sing it almost word for word the entire way through. And she likes to make her head dance like the “chickens just back from the shore.” Recently, her […]
I think I never feel as much like a *mom* as I do when Sasha is sick. Those days are harder, for sure, what with all the food throwing and screeching and I-want-this-no-I-don’t-want-it-I-WANT-IT-ing. But I also have a definite understanding of where the fury is coming from and because of that it’s easier for me […]
Many thanks to everyone who responded to my question last week on what to do with this project now that my daughter has officially aged out of my self-imposed two-year age limit. I have been giving this question a lot of thought over the past few months and I think I’ve found the direction I […]
In preparing for Sasha’s first plane ride last week, I asked for advice from some of my friends with experienced baby travelers. One of the common suggestions was to pack a bunch of small toys Sasha had never seen and reveal them to her on the plane. It was very important, I was warned, that […]
Back before Sasha’s school program started, I took her to an open house for new students. Within the first 10 minutes another little girl had torn a toy drum out of Sasha’s hands. I looked up at the girl’s dad but he didn’t seem to notice, so I tried reasoning with the girl. “Sasha was […]
Okay, just on the shortest end of another shortish longest shortest time over here. Last time I checked in about this, Sasha had bronchitis. That wound up blooming into an ear infection and on top of everything she got slammed with a stomach virus. She woke up vomiting three nights in a row. Shivering in […]