Toddlers

Outdoor fun is an easy way to wear out a toddler, but it's been raining every day. That playset that we just bought and built 2 months ago is getting little use because of the rain, the extremely wet...

Calling all mamas of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, I've got a challenge for you!  Join me and my mini bookworm in the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten Challenge! But just know, this is more than just a trendy challenge for IG...

When parenting children with beating hearts, we cannot cut out or relocate parts of them that we deem annoying or problematic, at least not very easily or very affordably. Molluscum, lice, and braces for instance.  Understandably, it isn't acceptable...

You don't have to work hard to hear it: that ominous wailing in the distance, becoming louder by the second ... could it be the howl of a coyote, should you bring your pets inside? Could it be the...

Having had our first child already, and approaching the two year mark, I was proud of all the things we had already accomplished. We went cold turkey on the pacifier at her first birthday. She was practically potty trained...

Hey sweet girl, I wanted to tell you just how special you are to our family. You are amazing, fun, brilliant, tough, and funny. Your curiosity is growing just as fast as your vocabulary. We probably don't monitor what we...

Recently I took my son, Louis 21 months, to the dentist at the suggestion of my pediatrician. We brush his teeth regularly during bath time, but otherwise dental hygiene is just a fun game to him right now. I...

Hey Mama, if you're here reading this now, it probably means that your little one has recently found their groove. Congrats! That groove is everything.  Maybe they are just starting to roll over or perhaps beginning to crawl (or doing...

I am the very proud mama of a tenacious, empowered, and brilliant two year old. And I am losing my ever-loving mind. With our first daughter, I seem to have missed the terrible twos. My first-born was always a...

Some days, she is the opposite of easy. Her mouth is rebelliously happy as she repeatedly says the newly formed word: No. Other times it is “No, no, no, no, no!” It is a gamble if she is going to...