While in the hospital for four days, I finished reading Baby Hearts: A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start. When this book arrived, Stefan looked at it and said, "You know I'll never be reading that, right?" Not because he doesn't care about how Mack...
I haven't mentioned much about what things were like those four days while I was in the hospital; but mistake my lack of words up until this point as a sign that things weren't. It was rather the opposite. Because I'm an expat and I am still not 100% fluent in...
Mackenzie's US passport and birth certificate arrived today. Only one week for processing...talk about shocking! Unfortunately, they have the wrong date of birth on them...so we have to reboot and start again. I think it may actually have been my mistake because I...
I was reading a newsletter from parents.com this morning and saw a link to an article about swaddling. From what I've heard, some babies really love it so after reading how simple it is, we decided to give it a go. Well, Stefan did really. And as it would turn out,...
Sunday we took our first outings with our Baby Trends Expedition LX jogging stroller. In the morning, we bundled Mackenzie up in her Eskimo outfit and went out to walk the dog. It was a bit of a bumpy ride, especially on the unpaved paths, and Stefan is already...
We received a cool little micro-fleece blanket made by the company Bugaboo recently, so I decided to go give their website and other products a closer look. In case you haven't heard of them, Bugaboo is a Dutch company which makes some rather funky, trendy, yet...
We've only got a few weeks left until Mackenzie arrives so putting her furniture together finally seemed like the right thing to do. Stefan did assure me that Warren Buffet let his kids sleep in a drawer of his dresser until they outgrew it and I assume they turned...
I just finished reading Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene and found it to be a very interesting book. While the primary focus of the book is communicating to a parent how they may be able to have their baby out of diapers by the age of one, the...
I bought us a Baby Bjorn Synergy carrier a few weeks ago via eBay and know that it will be great for extended wearing, taking long walks, shopping excursions and so on. But I also think that I'll want to be wearing Mackenzie when I'm working around the house too and I...
Hello my doggie friends, Long time no bark! I've been oh so busy lately, enjoying the cool fall air and intimidating little dogs. And I am in heat again which always makes me a more interesting pup (or so my parents find.) I generally get a lot more antsy and active,...
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