About a month of bliss with Zach sleeping nearly through the night has ended in an abrupt, screeching, glass-shattering crash. His hourly wakings, again, has me crazy with sleep deprivation and, frankly, depressed ( Read more... )

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He even went to a party and played with his pal, Alec (who was enduring the drama of both his mom and dad being there - why they were both there is beyond me, but I digress ...).


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Our babies were due just a day apart from one another, but hers came two months early, smack on Christmas Eve. We are the same age, getting a "late" start on family life, our husbands both devoted to Detroit athletics & our anniversaries just days apart. Her mother, who had her when she was 14 years old, is a point of stress in her life - just like ( Read more... )

Lately, the stress of maintaining a full-time schedule for a deadline-oriented career, while keeping up with an infant who refuses to sleep has taken it's toll. I have nobody to talk to. S is tired of hearing it, and other mothers I know are stay-at-home moms, or else they're competitiveness prevents me from admitting any weakness ( Read more... )

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Z-Ski hit his official 6-month birthday last week. So far he has played with/dropped/consumed:

Banana: I just give him a half chunk to gum away at. He likes this very much.
Sweet potato: Baked for 1 hour in the oven & then sliced into "chips" or rounds. After a few gags, he has taken to this quite well.
Yellow squash: Steamed coins. He didn't ( Read more... )

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Zach rolled from back to front last week. He's now working on doing it from both sides. I noticed that, while in his jumperoo, he no longer needed the book to stand on to reach the ground. In two weeks, he's grown enough to reach the floor without it ( Read more... )

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