L said mama about a hundred times.  Clearly, and not just when he was crying. Makes me cry, a bit. He has also figured out how to spin stuff (ie wheels on toys), purposely, not accidentally. He is PLAYING with his toys now.  His balance is also GREAT, he will stand for a couple of seconds without a wabble.  AND he pulls himself to a stand from ( Read more... )

How do you tell one of your best friends that her kids need to be disciplined WAY better? 

L did not enjoy the beans - he made himself throw up on the first spoonful!  On to pears, which he loves!  He said "mmmm" after every mouthful at breakfast this AM.  So cute.  My mom suggests that he might want a bigger spoon.  While that is likely true, doesn't she know that would just mean more to spit out or fling around the kitchen?  We are ( Read more... )

So yesterday's veggie was green beans.   I am pretty sure that L said ewwww on the first mouthful and it went down hill from there.  He gagged several times, but kept eating (and making the funniest faces), so I kept feeding.  Then he made himself throw up.  OK, I get it.  You don't like beans!  Of course he will see them again today...  we'll see ( Read more... )

Post this pic of L hangin' out at the cottage on his photo page.  So I am not.  I am posting it here!

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to my kid!  I have become one of those parents who can't stop talking about their child.  Which seems to be a rather endearing trait, but I take it to the extreme.  I will completely monopolize conversations if given the slightest chance, and I do so often.  It "L" this and "L" that.  I think it must be starting to bug people.  I've even been know ( Read more... )

Enough peeps have asked me about this, so I thought that I would share my thoughts on Cloth diapers - SO FAR!

We are doing cloth for our four month old, and it is going quite well, actually.  We chose to do cloth largely for environmental concerns, but also for the health and cost reasons. We looked at a diaper service - but it is only marginally ( Read more... )

I tolerate the media on most days, but this really irks me... The Toronto Sun (among others) decides to publish the names of a mother and her two children who were murdered this past weekend. In the article they acknowledge that they are doing so BEFORE the police have released the names, and that the names of the victims were obtained by ( Read more... )

My husband just told me that there is "some crazy shit on the web". Only took him ten years to figure that out!

The following are the OFFICIAL RULES OF ENGAGEMENT for Tim Horton's. Please feel free to pass them along so that we can make the world a better place ( Read more... )