Hellobee

Our kids are fascinated by a number of topics, but one of their favorites is animals. They don’t have any one particular animal that they’re interested in, but they seem to be just generally curious. Panda is at the age where he loves making animal sounds and even though he can’t say “lion,” “monkey,” or […]

Before I had kids, I thought I would treat them equally. I wanted to be fair. I wanted them to feel love equally. Shortly before giving birth to Panda, I read Siblings Without Rivalry (Mrs. High Heels has a great review of the book here) and one point really stuck with me: “To be loved […]

Ugh, summer heat. Sweat. Sticky. HOT! If you can’t tell, I don’t take the heat very well. I grew up in San Diego and it’s like anything under 65 is cold and anything over 78 is too hot. Now, I live in the Pacific Northwest and I’ve adapted a bit to the rainy, cold season. The […]

Summer is my ultimate paradise. Growing up in Northern California, we had two seasons: winter- wet and rainy, November through March; summer – hot hot hot, April through October. I now live in a place with seasons that have made summer its regular 3-month affair and it makes me go a little nuts trying to […]

“Don’t forget that your older child is still quite young. Don’t expect them to act older than their age.” I replay this advice in my head often these days as a stay-at-home parent of two young children. I first heard it last year in a two-year-olds parenting class when the discussion was surrounding sibling relationships. It […]

Over the past month, the twinblings hit their one-year birthday and with that milestone came a lot of press for the Starfish clan. We did a follow-up article with Cosmopolitan’s online magazine, and we did a story with NBC’s Today webpage. It was generally a lot of fun to share our update and story again, […]

Now that I’m starting to show, we’ve been making an effort to talk to Max about having a sibling and what it means to be a big brother. I still don’t think he has grasped the idea but occasionally he will surprise us and say, “I’ll share my trains with baby.” Before we found out […]