At a recent family gathering, my brother-in-law wanted a hug from my toddler, but LO was in no mood for hugging. Rather than forcing him to hug or sheepishly making excuses as to why he refused, I told LO, “Looks like you don’t want to hug right now. Maybe later?” I suggested. “Later,” my toddler [...]
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“Hahaha! Six ninety-nine… are you out of your mind?” That’s my husband and toddler’s inside joke (I have no clue either, but hey, whatever works). They’re both laughing it up, rolling on the ground and acting like drunk BFFs, all the while talking about being out of their minds. Rewind to about an hour ago [...]
This past weekend, our toddler kindly reminded us that the terrible-twos have yet to go away. In the blink of an eye he would go from yelling at the top of his lungs to happily singing and talking. For instance, we went to the market, and he wanted more bread to eat (what’s new?). When [...]
At 22 months, LO is chugging along with learning his colors, numbers and alphabet letters. So far, he can identify basic colors (red, blue, green, yellow, purple, orange, pink, purple, black, white, brown). I now have the habit of asking what color something is: “What color is the truck?” He can also identify and say [...]
One of the perks of living on the west side is just how close we are to the beach, so I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me to take him to see the waves sooner. Either way, today he and I hung out at the beach, a mere 5 minutes away from work, [...]
Like his second night, he didn’t cry for nights four, five and six. After I fed him, I burped him, laid him down in his crib wide awake, handed him his lovey and closed the door. Last night he talked for about 15 minutes before finally drifting off to sleep. During one of the dream [...]
