Babys First Year Blog
When our daughter Everly was just a tiny thing (6 weeks or so), my husband and I enjoyed our first Valentine’s day as parents. Unlike year’s past, we spent it staring at our new baby and hanging close to home. While we didn’t do the romantic dinner, flowers and the whole nine… we did decide to commemorate the day by making a sweet little video to send home to our family on the other side of the country. It’s only 34 seconds long, but it makes me smile ear to ear every time I watch it.
(after the jump, our Happy Valentine’s day video with our Continue reading »
Sometimes, just for kicks, I’ll go back and read the archives of my personal blog just to see what I was thinking and doing in years past. Sometimes I find myself smiling over a happy memory but very often, I find myself shaking my head in disbelief over how naive I was about motherhood. In so many ways, motherhood is the great equalizer. It takes all your pride and all your stubbornness and all your know-it-all tendencies and pulls the rug right out from underneath them all. As a mother of two now, some of the greatest commandments I’ve learned as a mom are: Continue reading »
I love (like BIG FLUFFY HEARTS LOVE) the children’s clothing line Velvet & Tweed. Their girl’s line is so sweet and pretty. Their boys clothes are dapper and adorable. Better yet, their clothes are soft, wash well and are realistically designed to dress a baby or toddler. Unfortunately, their vintage-inspired line can be a bit pricey, so I get all kinds of stoked when they go on sale. I was excited to see that they’ve got a beautiful collection for sale right now on Totsy!
Stop in and check it out. Don’t have an invite yet? Snag one after the jump!
This just in! I’ve finally snapped a photo of the oh-so-elusive Arlo eyelashes. Most of the time, these bad boys are virtually invisible (thanks to their blonde color) but when the afternoon sun hits them just right, you can really see just how long and lovely they are! It’s one of my son’s most darling features and it always tickles me when someone notices them, because they are always taken aback at just how long they really are! Continue reading »
My kids have always been early teethers. Both of them had their first bottom teeth popping through by 4 months old but unlike my daughter, whose teeth started to come in one at a time every month after the first two, Arlo has stalled a bit. His bunny teeth have been hanging out in a little pair by themselves for the last 4 months and I was beginning to wonder if and when we’d see more pop through. In true Arlo fashion, he decided to go big or go home with the presence of the top four front teeth all pushing through at his gum line. Four at once! Can you imagine?
So all of this teething business got me curious as to the natural order of when and how teeth come in. What’s the average age for a baby’s first teeth to come through? What teeth are supposed to come in second? third? When do molars appear? With a little internet digging, I found the answer.
The nice thing about blogging here on Baby’s First Year versus my personal blog is that it has become a place to put all of my thoughts and experiences about the little bits and pieces of caring for my baby boy. My posts here are about Arlo specifically and so many of you out there are mamas to little ones too so you find interest and camaraderie in the small details of first foods and crazy sleep schedules.
But writing here has also given me a space to reflect on some of the unexpected challenges of my son’s first eight months of life. His road hasn’t been as smooth as I had hoped. While we’ve experienced all the usual joys (rolling, crawling!) and bumps in the road (milk supply, never sleeping!) I never anticipated that I would be here sharing details of challenging diagnoses of conditions I’d never heard of before he was born. Continue reading »
I have said WOW about a thousand times while reading this story about a couple whose chances of having a baby of their own were slim to none. The Schiraldi’s, a healthy couple in the their early thirties, tried to get pregnant for two years before discovering that the husband, Jason, had no sperm after a testicular biopsy. Continue reading »
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