I have been pregnant or nursing since November of 2006 ( Read more... )

If you've ever wondered what my days are like, here you go...The first thing L. did this morning was get up, get a popsicle from the freezer and feed it to his stuffed sheep. A bit later he found a glow stick in S.'s room and stuck it into the side of the air purifier creating a horrific noise which terrified him and required me dismantling ( Read more... )

L.'s fever broke yesterday and he got a rash this evening, so it appears he had roseola which is what his doctor suspected he had. He was ridiculously cranky and fussy today and I discovered that he has a molar cutting through. This would explain why I woke up this morning to him gnawing, yes gnawing, on my nipple. It has not been a good week ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago S. got sick and then better. Then last Wednesday he got *really* sick with an upper-respiratory thing. He stayed home from school, swimming, and pretty much everything the rest of the week. He is just now getting better. A little over a week ago L. was pulling on his ears and I took him to get checked out. No infection, ( Read more... )

We are in the process of a massive living room reconfiguration as L. has been using the safety fences to climb up onto the sofa, the side of the entertainment center, and just to climb up. Not good. Fences coming down, different style gates going up in the kitchen doorway and mid-hallway. All S.'s small (as in choking hazard) toys are being ( Read more... )

I just walked into the living room because I thought it was too quiet and I found L. standing on top of the table we have in there. That table comes up to his chest and he still managed to hoist himself up on it and then stand on it ( Read more... )

To sum up 2010 I am tempted to say, "I had a baby in December of 2009" and leave it at that. Because, really, a whole lot of this year was devoted to the care of feeding of that baby and his older brother.

That said, here is a run down of the year:

DanceI choreographed one new dance, which was really two dances, as it was a combination tap and ( Read more... )

Christmas is over and it was all fun but the adults around here are feeling done. We did Christmas in the Park and Zoo Lights this week. Christmas Eve we did a gumbo dinner with catzen and today we had my family here (my mom, dad, aunt, uncle, and catzen. The kids got lots of gifts, including a veritable mountain of Legos for S. who spent the entire day ( Read more... )

Got some stuff done today. We had L.'s one year well check today and he is doing quite well. He got four shots which he was really displeased about, but otherwise he did great. After that I took the kids to IKEA where S. was thrilled just to look at everything and L. was placated by Cheerio's. I got the all-plastic high chair there for L. to ( Read more... )

Home from visiting my parents and other family for my and L.'s birthdays. He is enjoying all his new toys and S. is enjoying his "big brother" presents (small things gotten mostly to distract him from L.'s gift opening). I am headed to bed in a minute and hope to get some decent sleep. L.'s one year appointment is tomorrow, then maybe we will ( Read more... )