Pickles and Onions

Little miss was NOT tired and was "no sleeping!" With a good "mea nicht sleeping! Mea playing!" For good measure.  Ten m...

"It is of critical importance that the family bedtime ritual is a stable, soothing set of steps to guide the childrens' transition...

Sleep. Oh, glorious, glorious sleep. As the kids get older this topic (or the lack of this topic!) gets less uber-present in our parenting b...

Babies have a thing for washers, eh? When PJ was a baby, he got really excited watching the washer. My little Jelly Bean almost instantly f...

Jelly bean is already two months old. In the past few days she's definitely gotten more active.  She's also still a good eater and a...

The tides of the North Sea are extreme. The water level difference between high and low tide can be over three meters or darn near ten feet...

On September 21, 2011 I posted this picture with the caption "so...did we order it too big?" PJ at about 2.5 months I got s...

Its not a secret around here that I haven't handled the whole PJ (lack of) sleep (non)schedule very well. I even wrote him his first op...

I gave birth to a player. This morning Oma came over so that I could attend my yoga class. Thing is, I woke up with a nasty headache and a...

After weeks and weeks of little man's night time sleeping patterns worsening, we finally took some more drastic measures to help him ...

Dear Beloved Son, I promise: it is not some sort of strange torture. It is not painful. Its not unfair. Actually, honey, its natural and...

The first few months of PJ’s arrival into our life were chaotic at best. We dealt with breastfeeding issues , post partum depression, coli...

Today PJ is 10 Weeks old and it seems that we are headed into another growth spurt because the little guy is showing me about every 30 minut...

Everyone told us before PJ arrived how important sleep was going to be. At the time I recall getting annoyed with how everyone (it seemed) a...

Happy Third Week to PJ! Congrats on driving both of your parents to the end of their nerves, teaching us what a proper scream really sound...