Yesterday when I picked Jana up, instead of heading home or picking Michael up from home for dinner, we went straight to a farmers' market and then meet Michael for dinner. So I called him as soon as we were mobile to get an ETA on when he thought he'd be free from work. After we hung up, Jana and I had this conversation ( Read more... )

Last weekend turned out to be fun-filled, mostly. Friday we stopped by some friends where they have a 5 year old daughter and a 14 month old. Jana loved playing with the 5 year old and they spent a lot of time unsupervised in her room. We suddenly heard crying and Megan came running down, "Jana got hurt." I run up and she's hysterical so I don't ( Read more... )

Separation anxiety seems to be at a peak. I'm also guessing it's exacerbated by Michael being away. I'm also at a point where I'm seriously thinking about having a short conference with an educator (one of Jana's teachers) soon ( Read more... )

It took almost 90 mins to get Jana out of the house, dropped off at school and me in my office. We live 7 minutes away from work/school ( Read more... )

For the most part, Jana's a really good night sleeper. She started sleeping through the night at 5 weeks old. Over the last few months, her dreams have been waking her in the middle of the night. Some nights she can fall back asleep on her own, this morning, she was up at 5am, looked for me to come back to bed with her in her room so I can watch ( Read more... )