original little hellraisers

      
it’s the best!  what could be better than a holiday dedicated to going door to door begging for candy.  it’s the one day of the year that it’s acceptable behaviour to threaten complete strangers in the name of candy.

dylan is the little brother for now, but i don’t think it will always be that way.  i’ve been pulling out owen’s old clothes to find that dylan wears clothes owen didn’t wear until he was 4-5 months old.  dylan is definately bigger and longer than owen was.  he is 6 weeks younger than owen in the picture [...]

look at what owen painted after visiting the Steinhart Aquarium today.

after the previous blog, i realized that all i really wanted was a pity party.  someone to feel sorry or commiserate with me in my situation.  at the very least it made me feel better to get it off my chest, to whine a little.  so wouldn’t a site like pityparty.com be great?  some place where [...]

is it normal for a 2 month old not to go poop in 24 hours time?  owen ate and pooped with every feeding.  well, according to the “internets” it’s perfectly normal for a breastfed baby not to have a bowel movement for several days, but it didn’t say anything about the extreme fussiness that goes [...]

 last sunday we celebrated dylan’s arrival with friends over mimosa’s and brunch.  dylan was a little rockstar sitting in his bouncy chair all morning as friends greeted him.  thanks to everyone.  dylan, you are a well loved little boy.

porn for new moms

i did it.  i bribed owen into the final steps of potty training.  i bribed him with M & M’s to go pee in the toilet.
wednesday afternoon, owen refused to put his diaper or pants on.  he pretty much peed all over the house.  so i decided to bribe him with M & M’s to pee [...]

  
we did it!  i showered, got the kids fed and packed up for a trip to the playground with lexie, lucia and finn.  yes, we got out the house an hour later than planned and i had to wrestle with owen to get dressed and he still left the house without shoes or a jacket [...]