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  • Ee-ya

    We are a pacifier family.  We offered both of our kids pacifiers and they both took to it like fish to water.  But, like fish, they need water to live, and our kids needed their pacifiers otherwise sleeping and security were out of the question (Gigi called her pacifiers Suckers and Jude came up with […]

  • Another Writer

    After careful consideration, Bradley and I have decided to forgo traditional preschool for Jude in favor of some Little Gym memberships or dance classes.  In those classes he will still develop relationships with his peers and need to attend to a grown up who is not his parent so he will have that needed year […]

  • Goodnight Snuggles

    Tonight Jude did not want to go to bed.  He stood at the bottom of his ladder balking.  “I am not tired!  I don’t WANT to go to bed!” I knew this statement to be untrue because a. He did not have a nap today and b. He had JUST told me, “Mama?  I tired.” […]

  • Hut Hut Hut

    So we went to the store today and found more “Hut Huts”, as Jude calls them, after the marching song he loves so much from Toy Story movie Army Men. This time we scored Confederate Soldiers, Union Soldiers, and Western Guys… (the artists formerly known as Cowboys & Indians).  At first I had to convince […]

  • Summertime

    Toddler toes, toddler feet…   In a toddler sized creek. A perfect way to spend a day.

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