I’ve been fascinated lately with the whole “Life List” trend. Popularized by Maggie from Mighty Girl, as far as I can tell, the trend has really taken off in the last couple of years. I’m conflicted about how I feel about it. On the one hand, I like many of the ideas behind it. I …
The strange new world of parenting a toddler
Eva is at a verbal crossroads these days. At 19 months, she’s been transitioning into the world of sentences. A typical Eva phrase these days is something like this: “Have it!” Or “milk nummy drink more want-it mine!” They’re not really sentences, but are instead Eva throwing every applicable word out there in hopes that …
A Day (Off) in the Life of a 14 1/2 Month Old
Yesterday our day care providers took the day off so that meant I also took the day off and Eva and I spent it together. Since I have clearly missed my 14-month update, I thought it’d be fun to document our day together so I can look back and see what things were like at …
Thirteen months
For the first year of Eva’s life, I had a weekly ritual of writing the week’s activities and accomplishments into her baby book, which had 52 pages in which to document the entire first year of her life. Some weeks it was hard to think of things that had happened, and other weeks we ran …
