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Recently, we were walking through one of our neighborhood parks, and we saw a little league game. Our son loves to watch people play sports, so he immediately wandered over to the fence and sat down. It didn’t matter that a playground was calling to him 40 yards away; he just wanted to […]

When I first had my baby, my well-meaning grandmother asked how he was sleeping through the night.  At the time, we were having trouble getting him on a day-night schedule.  The silly boy thought that the hours of 10pm until 3am were the hours he was supposed to be awake, alert, and loved.
It was a […]

So. You’ve gone out with the kids are picked some berries. Now what do you do with them?
For starters, there’s always the “wash and eat” option. My boys love fresh berries. I do sprinkle a little sugar over anything tart.
The next thing I usually do with berries is make […]

When Little Man was a newborn, J and I practiced Dr. Harvey Karp’s suggestions from The Happiest Baby on the Block as though they were the dogma from some new and compelling religion. We swaddled him, laid him on his side, shushed and shook him (gently), and let him suck to his heart’s content. […]

Every 6-8 weeks, I try to go away by myself for a weekend. Even before we completed our adoption, Peter and I agreed that I would take time off once in a while as compensation for the weekends he’s on call at the hospital and seldom makes it home.
It’s easy to explain to K and […]