Quick Stats Weight: 17-18 lbs. (?) Height: about 27″ (I don’t know on these–we’ll find out for sure at her appointment next week) Clothing Size: 6-9 month size Diaper Size: 3 Milestones Reached Pulls up to standing on pretty much everything, including in her crib Holds on to and uses furniture, toys, and/or people to walk …
There’s a common saying that says that since it takes 9 months to grow a baby, you should expect it to take at least 9 months to lose the baby weight. Or something like that. Well, today I am 9 months postpartum, and ***SPOILER ALERT*** I haven’t lost all the baby weight. BUT! I’m a …
January does not typically seem to be the month for happy news–instead, it usually suffers in gloomy silence as the ugly middle child squashed between buoyant December and perky February, and it and I have a long history of grey moods and general dreary demeanors together. BUT! Today—today I have joyful news to share with …
Partly due to my failure to complete any of my resolutions last year and partly due to all that I’ve learned and postulated about habits vs. goals in the past few years, I’m doing my new year’s resolutions a little bit differently in 2016. After much informal research (aka, me learning by trial and error), …
With all the valuable lessons I learned last year, you’d think I would have crushed my new year’s resolutions for 2015. Well, not exactly. Actually, I didn’t complete a single one. This is unprecedented for me, I think–most years, I complete at least half my resolutions, and there have been a few notable years when …
A good holiday break needs to have a good dose of crazy loud fun with family and friends (check), a healthy taste of something new (check), and a big ol’ dollop of just quiet contentment. Because, let’s face it, as an instructor of over 150 students, “quiet contentment” is a commodity that’s hard to come …
(showing off my new ‘do–I sure have missed having a little red in my hair!) Here we are, on the cusp of the new year, and I’ve been debating for days on what kind of “year in review” post I wanted to do. I thought for awhile of doing a traditional month-by-month approach, but that …
Christmas with a baby– It’s like, to paraphrase Charles Dickens, “having…the lightest license of a child, and yet being [wo]man enough to know its value.” Our first Christmas with a baby was everything it ought to be–full of family, parties, gifts, giggles, and an occasional fussy fit or two when naptimes were ignored or pushed …
