One of the weirdo things I've been trying to do recently is "ignore" Freya. Not like actually ignore her, but stop constantly trying to be there to entertain her every second. I've never liked the concept of being totally in control of her entertainment, since I think that I cannot possibly understand her baby-understanding of the world. And what ( Read more... )

The first two times Freya had vaccinations, it was horrifying. I honestly thought she might die. They were just awful. The third time, we missed a vaccine because it was too close to the second dose, and we asked for Tylenol at the time of the vaccines. It went significantly better ( Read more... )

I've decided to stop trying for real updates with meaningful and thoughtful paragraphs, and downshift instead to just simplistic, small updates. In this case, I feel that quantity may be over quality, since it's the big things I'll most likely recall, not the small stuff ( Read more... )

It's funny. I've been getting less sleep these days than I did when Freya was around 2-3 months old, because I've abandoned the attempts to sleep train her at all. I just let her decide what she needs, because she's still at that point in her life where wants and needs are often the same thing. She is still unsullied in that way--she can't ( Read more... )

Lately, I've noticed something about myself: I want the world to stop hating on people so much ( Read more... )