My blog is going to be 1 on Saturday! I've managed to keep a blog, to which I consistently post, going for a whole year. I'm very proud of myself. I'm thinking about running a giveaway contest to celebrate. See http://jessicaonbabies. ( Read more... )

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I can NOT get Shai to nap. OMG. It's getting ridiculous. It was the same before I weaned him, so it's not an issue of not nursing him. It's an issue of "WILL YOU LIE DOWN AND CLOSE YOUR EYES?!?!" Sigh. He NEEDS it. By 5:00, he's DYING of tired. If we drive anywhere in the evening, he falls asleep! But it's too late for a nap and too early for bed ( Read more... )

Well, the night went very well. Shai woke up once, at one of his usual wake times - 12:30-ish - and asked for "nur." He whined, cried a little, but no tantrum, no screaming. It took a few tries to convince him that there was "no more milk. It's all gone," (which is the same thing I told him before he went to sleep) but I kept repeating it in a ( Read more... )

I think I've finally reached that point of "I've had enough!" For a long, long time, I couldn't imagine that ever happening. It wasn't so much that I "loved" nursing, more that I had no idea what to do if I didn't nurse. How would I get him to sleep? How would I comfort him when he's hurt or sick? What if he gets sick and I can't give him ( Read more... )

I'm staring at the wallpaper border the previous owner of this house put up in the office nook, and I think I hate it. In fact, I think I don't like that the desk is painted white, that there's white carpet at all upstairs (indeed, the entire upstairs is white carpet!), and the wallpaper that goes half-way up the office nook walls that complements ( Read more... )

I want to wean Shai. He mostly only nurses at night and for nap when he's home with me, unless he can con me into nursing him at another time by claiming he wants to go to sleep, then nursing for 10 minutes and popping up and declaring, "Mo noo!" ("no nurse") and climbing off his bed and wandering away ( Read more... )

Well, we're all moved in! This house is awesome. I love it. It's designed with so much sense. Much more sense than our previous house. It's smaller in square footage but bigger in upstairs living space, which was very important to me. Also, it's pretty, it's in a nice neighborhood, and so far I've met several nice neighbors, and there are tons of ( Read more... )

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