This baby is on his second day of learning to go to sleep by himself in his crib using the Modified Baby Whisperer Double Sowcow Strategizing Synergies To Move Forward technique. My evening blogging time has been seriously compromised. It took an hour and fifteen minutes to get him to sleep last nig...

I know kids are different. From one another, I mean. I knew going into this 2-kid thing that Fresco would be different from Trombone in significant ways. (I did, after all, call it when I wrote last year: Dear, Sweet Babby2.0: Enough. With. The. Kicking. I get it: you are the yin to your brother’s...

Two really good days in a row; that’s more than I’ve had in months. I should be grateful. I am, so grateful, but I am also greedy. I want more. I would like weeks. I would like months. Oh! how I wanted more than two days of laughter, long naps, clean noses, but two days was all I got. By...

When you are lost in a string of terrible, dark days, it seems the light will never shine again. 4 am will last forever. This endless day turned to week with its screaming and shrieking and the tugging at both of your pant legs at once; this is the day, the week that will be repeated until you are i...

I don’t go to baby stores very often. But today the opportunity was offered to me so I went to BabiesRus land to purchase a new gate for Trombone’s bedroom doorway because the old one is kaput. Oh, BabiesRus on a Monday afternoon. Soothing, spa-like music playing. Neatly stacked piles of...

We have a particular strain of common cold at our house, one characterized by a bad ass cough; not “the hack” from last year, which was a dry, irritating cough, but a real thick, hearty soup of a cough. A beef stew of a cough, if you will. I feel for the wee duffers, I really do. They ar...

Grace under pressure, I think that’s what I’ve got some form of. When the day is just dumb and boring and endless and we are all getting on each other’s nerves, I can be as cantankerous as the rest of them. But when there is Actual Badness going on, I can keep it together and be pl...

Balance. The nature of “three” is imbalance. I try and fail to picture a triangular see-saw. The thing I am finding hardest about parenting two children is achieving balance and helping meet everyone’s needs, not just the clean bum, full tummy needs but everything after; fun and ex...

Potato News Last week I saw a bag of pre-peeled, chopped-into-cubes potatoes, for sale at Safeway. They were called “Today’s Potatoes.” (discarded marketing slogan: Because Potatoes are HARD WORK) When I got home I went to the Today’s Potatoes website and there I learned that...

Dear Fresco, You are nine months old today. Thank you for choosing to celebrate by finally napping for longer than 30 minutes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. love, yr. mother (sound of weeping) ps: that thing where you shout YAY whenever you hear cheering? Is awesome. I think Obama heard you all t...