It has been about a month since M started kindergarten, and we are still all getting used to it as a family. When we took her out of daycare while I was on maternity leave, things slowed down, routine-wise — Mac Daddy didn’t have to rush her off to school, and she, A, and I […]
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When M was maybe four months old, she spit out her soother, stuck her thumb in her mouth, and left it there for over a good three years. I exaggerate, a little bit, but she was a thumb-sucker for a long, long time. It was kind of nice when it first started. We had a […]
Within the last month A, 10 months old, has grown two new teeth, battled a three-day fever that an emergency room visit revealed to be strep throat and an ear infection, and started cruising around furniture — along with the other usual sleepless baby sorcery. In truth, he stopped being a ‘good’ sleeper about six […]
The way it works in Ontario, Canada, is that kids can enroll in kindergarten the calendar year in which they turn four, even if they’re three through September, October, November, or December. It’s up to the parents to determine if and when they want to enroll their kids — you can hold off on school […]
… and it’s a lot more challenging than when our first become mobile! A is eight months old and started army crawling in earnest at about 7.5 months old, shortly after he started sitting up on his own. He’s working on pulling to stand, and I’m kind of wondering if he’s going to skip regular […]
We’re back from our long road trip south, mostly unscathed! It was good time with family and friends (and all kinds of delicious food we can’t find or afford up north) but man, was that last bit of travel home challenging. We split our journey across three days on the way back, and the smallness […]
Shortly after A turned six months old I realized that seating him in his floor chair was not gonna cut it for mealtimes for much longer. It was a good chair for when he was learning to sit, and it will probably be a good chair when he’s big enough for a booster and doesn’t […]
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