Plagiocephaly . . . . what-ephaly?

You know how they tell you to rotate your baby’s head from side to side when they are sleeping to avoid a flat head? Well, DO IT! Because Brooklyn sleeps so long at night, AND has a preferential for looking to the right, she has developed a very flat head on one side. The technical [...]

Mall Walkers

Well, it is official. After today, my maternity leave is over. I go back to work tomorrow. I’m not sure whether to cry or rejoice.  And now that I will be working again, I think my days of afternoon leisurely mall walking are over. Do they do this in other parts of the country? Or [...]

Yappity-Yap

It’s taken 3 years, but we can finally have a conversation with our son!  Wyatt’s speech delay has been confusing and frustrating for Chris and myself.  Conversing with Wyatt was like talking to a brick wall. We would talk to him with no response, or a response that we did not understand which resulted in [...]

Under Attack!

My computer has a virus and Chris is in the process of fixing it, so in the meantime, I have been a bit absent from the blog.  I had to steal some time on Chris’s computer to write this…never an easy task. Hopefully it should be clean of all viruses soon.  We think my computer [...]

Baby Burrito

OK, so I know it’s technically called swaddling, but ever since Wyatt was an infant we have called swaddling the baby burrito. Like at night when Chris would put Wyatt to bed, I would ask, ” Did you put him in a burrito?” Well, the phrase stuck with us for Brooklyn. Now, they have baby [...]

Sushi night

Many of you may know that Chris and I love sushi – let me rephrase: I like sushi a lot and Chris is obsessed with it.  We don’t have many options in our city to eat good sushi, which may be a good thing because we would probably go broke eating out 5 + days [...]

Ice Jam 2009 Update

Well the river has dropped back two feet now, so apparently our “bombing” efforts were successful. Bismarck brought in a demolition team to assess the ice jams and plant explosives. I watched the video and it made the fountain at the Belagio in Vegas look small. (I posted a video of the blasts on our [...]

Ice Jam 2009

For those of you NOT from North Dakota, or those of you living under a rock, you may not have heard we are having some water problems here. Not only in Fargo, which is destined to flood almost every year, but also here in Bismarck.  The impossible is happening out here, or so we thought [...]

Questionable Parenting

Isn’t “pregnancy brain”  supposed to end after you have had the baby? For those unfamiliar with this term, “pregnancy brain” refers to pregnant women who can’t seem to think straight during their pregnancy.  I think it is because all of your blood flow is focused in your uterus, leaving no circulation left for your brain.  [...]

Baby Smiles

I know what you are thinking – it’s just gas. I beg to differ. We have gotten Brooklyn to smile now on a regular basis every day over the last few weeks. She especially loves to smile at her dad when he is being goofy (leave it to dads, right? We do all the work [...]