What a wonderful day we had today! I am so thankful for my beautiful family. Monkey had so much fun spending the day with her Uncle, her Grandma and Poppy, and her Mommy and Daddy. She was exhausted by the end of the day, from keeping tabs on everyone and what they [...]

So Monkey has taken to howling now.  I can’t tell you where she gets this.  I don’t let her watch tv, much less werewolf movies.  We don’t have a dog.  We don’t live in the forest with the wolves.  But for whatever reason, starting today, she howls.  It is hysterical.  She leans way back, looks [...]

Happy girl

Have you ever had a day where you realized by 5pm that you haven’t gotten dressed yet?  Okay…maybe it’s just me.  Before Monkey was born, and I was a teacher, I don’t think I ever stayed in my pajamas past 5AM.  Now?  I’ll admit it!  Once in a while, when we don’t have [...]

Who, me?

Monkey has entered the stage where toys are not fun anymore.  Her preferred form of entertainment is emptying neat and organized bins, boxes, or cubbies.  Whether it’s bibs, tupperware, toys, books, diapers, or envelopes; she loves to remove each object, one by one, and fling it over her shoulder.  All babies probably go [...]

So Monkey has been saying “Dada” for months now and knows what it means (she says it as she points to her Daddy). She also says “baba” for her bottle. She is even starting to say her version of “kitty”. Yet she hasn’t said Mama yet! I told her I [...]

Photo worth $200?

So we took Monkey to her very first portrait session.  It was supposed to be a very big deal.  We went to four stores to pick out a dress and shoes, and even more to find the perfect hair accesory.  We looked around and decided to go with Sears since we had [...]

sleepy Mommy and sleeping Monkey

Remember the first days home from the hospital when every picture you took of your newborn was of them sleeping like an angel?  Monkey was the same way.  That first week she slept around the clock.

Then…she woke up.

The first few months, monkey refused to sleep unless someone was holding her.  [...]

Pregnant with Monkey

Everyone said “breastfeeding just melts the pounds away!”  Well, it didn’t.  Everyone said, “Give yourself time.  It took nine months to gain the weight.  It will take nine months to lose it.”  Well, now that Monkey is nine months old, what’s my excuse?  The truth is that it didn’t take nine months [...]

Monkey at 8 months

So now that Monkey is cruising, crawling, standing, climbing, and occasionally walking on her own, Daddy and I decided to get serious about babyproofing the house.  Thinking we wouldn’t have much to do, we started slowly, letting Monkey show us where all the dangers were.  Apparently our house is a horrible [...]