• Little Mister,  milestones,  Parenting,  Uncategorized,  updates,  What We've Been Up To

    Operation: Big Bed (Preparation).

    pic Parenting can be a little bit scary at times. Just when you get the hang of one way of doing things with your child, they move onto another stage in life and you live on a never ending learning curve! Oh gosh, sometimes I live for those little plateaus in between! But lately I have had to put on my big girl panties and accept that there is no time like the present to do the next scary thing: Moving the Little Mister into a ‘big kid’ style bed. YIKES ON SO MANY LEVELS. Of course I have been dreading it since he started walking (because walking means escaping…

  • Little Mister,  milestones

    It’s that time of year again!

    Pic So last Christmas was the Little Mister’s first Christmas ever. So that was really cool. I dressed him in a cute outfit (it was wrecked by lunchtime probably) and everybody clucked over the new addition to the family. He was probably around one and a half months old then (I’m no mathematician). He slept and had his milk. Cried occasionally. The usual newborn baby thing. You know how it is (or not – how would I know) haha. I like to think of this Christmas (2012) as his second first Christmas. This year the Little Mister is a toddler! He is moving around by himself (when he’s not crash…

  • Little Mister,  Uncategorized,  updates

    Clomp! Clomp! Squeal!

    As soon as my husband and I were wed/tied the knot/got our matrimony on, the questions started. When are you going to have kids? When are you going to reproduce?! START HAVING SOME DAMN BABIES ALREADY! DON’T YOU WANT TO HEAR THE PITTER PATTER OF TINY FEET?!!! Which is totally a great thing to say when they won’t be your own kids. Joke was on everyone else, though, because we waited four years. Anyhow, I really want to communicate the fact that the whole “pitter patter of tiny feet” thing is a sham. Who made that saying up anyway? Firstly, newborns can’t pitter patter their feet because, duh, they can’t…