Yes, that would be MY crazy kid…

Yesterday we had to run to BRU to get diapers. Of course, $84 later I had several other unnecessary items in my cart including what I thought was going to be a…

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Or the “cowboy” bed as we like to call it.. Mrs. Brown asked what it looked like so I took a snapshot of Jasper brushing his teeth.   He really likes to cuddle and lay on it, just not SLEEP…

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About 2 months or so ago, Jasper went from lying down in his crib and saying “Byeeeeee Mommy” as I left his room at night to SCREAMING everytime I left when putting him down for a nap or bedtime.  He…

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Jasper has had his tricycle for a while now.  At first, we would push him on it using the handle but eventually he got tall enough to scoot around using his feet on the floor.

So when he came riding…

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Not like I’m an expert or anything after our ONE road trip with a toddler, but for what it’s worth, here is what worked for us..

So the ride up wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be,…

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So the last time we spoke about toddler tunes, I was recommending children’s songs that don’t drive mommy crazy. Those are all well in good, but for our 6 hour torture session drive to cape cod, I…

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I admit that I felt a certain amount of self-congratulatory smugness while watching the highly entertaining and eye-opening “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” this spring.

French fries and hamburgers for every meal? Pizza for Breakfast? How could these people…

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This is a disturbing new development.. whenever I tell Jasper “No” or not to do something, or pretty much anything he doesn’t like he hits me. It’s almost instinctual, I don’t see him sit there and think about it and…

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A friend posted this video to her facebook feed and it really hit home for me because I only last week had Jeff turn Jasper’s car seat around.  I consider myself fairly educated about safety issues, I mean I…

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I don’t know, maybe I had become overly complacent because we made it through babyhood without a poop incident in the tub, but this caught me totally by surprise.

Such was my confidence that not even Jasper’s declaration of “poop!”…

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