What I’ve extracted from the mouth of my very oral, very mobile, and very quick 10-month-old so far this week: 1. One piece of black sidewalk chalk2. A small rock3. An angel fish (of the small, plastic and Finding Nemo “tank gang” variety)4. A scrap of paper5. An unidentified, nearly fossilized, once edible piece ofRead the whole post >>

To the person who thinks my home phone number is a fax machine and started calling at midnight on a night when I actually went to bed before midnight and continued calling every 30 minutes until I took the phone off the hook at 1 AM, I am trying really, really hard to love you.Read the whole post >>

…according to a snuggly, dog-loving 3-year-old who never leaves her furry friends behind when she makes her nightly pilgrimage to Mommy and Daddy’s bed. (Madeline arranged these toys in her dollhouse and then proudly exclaimed, “Look! They’re all ready for bed!” Just like this poor, plastic couple, I fear we’re soon going to be takenRead the whole post >>