Ok, so I had a dream about Bernie having her baby and I want to record it in case I'm right. I'll probably be horribly wrong, but if by some chance I'm right we can all pretend I'm psychic. I was helping out in a kindergarten classroom for some reason when Papa came in to tell me that Bernie had had her baby. It was a boy. Then we had to call ( Read more... )

My middle sister is pregnant! I just found out this morning. I'm not sure what to think, but as my other lovely sister said, we might as well be happy for her because it's not like we can change it. I hope it goes well for her. It will definitely make holidays more fun for Brennan to have a little cousin close to his age so nearby. Wow. Just

You want to know what sucks? Hearing a noise over the baby monitor, and finding out that it was your baby vomiting profusely. Especially when you find this out by picking him up in the dark. I'm not talking about your everyday baby spit-up that's just the result of a faulty valve; you could smell the bile. The poor guy was tired as hell from ( Read more... )

Remember "Look Who's Talking"? There was this part right after the baby was born when Kirstie Alley was having postpartum depression issues, and she was holding her crying kid and crying herself and listing all the things that were wrong in her life. At the end of the list was "...and you have some exotic baby disease." Other than the crying, ( Read more... )

The Brenster has started a whole bunch of new things over the past week or so. Probably the most exciting is that he's beginning to really roll over (back to front, he's still anti-"tummy time"). I still don't feel like I can put a date in the baby book for it, because every time so far has been slightly assisted, but he's really getting there. ( Read more... )

Well, everyone seems to have survived the first week of daycare. It was a little rough, but I do think Brennan and I are both going to benefit from the time apart. I get to exercise the non-Mommy parts of my brain so that I'm happy to snuggle and make kissy faces and all that when he's home. He gets the stimulation of watching other kids run ( Read more... )

I will not freak out because I've left him at daycare. I will not freak out. I will not freak out. I WILL not freak out...

Brennan initiated peek-a-boo for the first time yesterday! I'm retardedly excited about it. After his bath he was playing around with his towel, and managed to get it stretched between his two hands between his face and mine. Then he lowered both his hands at the same time and looked at me, so I made a huge excited smiley face for him, which he ( Read more... )

Bren has been ungodly fussy and annoying lately (is it his digestion? lack of sleep? what, for the love of god, WHAT?) but we did have some good times lately, so I wanted to document them before I forget that they exist. Today he had his first experience with solid food! In the world of babies "solid" means "a soupy mess mixed with just enough ( Read more... )

We're back from our annual beach vacation. It was fun if exhausting, for all of us. My family members were their usual selves...we could politely call it "boisterous," or less politely "irritating and loud," or we could just say what I usually say, which is that being with them resembles being stranded in an episode of The Muppet Show. For poor ( Read more... )