At the end of November last year, I wrote a celebratory post. At a very ripe age of 4 and a half, my kid finally ditched the pacifier! I’d written extensively about Baby C’s pacifier use, but mostly in the context of her sleep issues – mainly, taking a very long time to settle down […]
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I was scrolling through Instagram one average Sunday morning and saw a video of a friend’s daughter writing notes to her friends. She had a few lines written out, her letters typically cartoonish for a 4 year old, but in mostly straight lines along the notebook page and legible. The video popped up just a […]
Baby C (not so much a baby anymore!) turns 4 and a half this week, and with it, we have hit the final baby transition milestone – ditching the pacifier. There are tons of posts both on the blog and on the community boards about getting rid of pacifiers, so I considered not even writing […]
A friend was recently lamenting to me about the rash of birthday party invitations our kids were receiving. Our kids attend the same pre-K, and in the course of a few months, it seemed as though most of the class’s kids had birthdays, and our kids were invited to their birthday parties, along with the rest […]
Baby C turned four two months ago, and her birthday just happened to coincide with our efforts to cull down all the “stuff” around our house, including her toys, as we were preparing to sell our condo (which we have since decided to delay until next spring). I have a very low tolerance for clutter, […]
Just about 2 years ago, I wrote a post about the thinking Mr. Carrot and I were starting to do about our daughter’s education. At the time, Baby C was just past 2 years old, and we were eagerly waiting for the dawn of 2017, after the presidential election and my husband’s post-election transition in […]
The first time I saw a juice box, I was 12 years old. I grew up in Russia, in the late 1980s, where juice as it’s known in the US (and really, the rest of the world) was all but a luxury good, and when it was available, it only came in big bottles. I […]
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