Baby Milestones: Silje’s First Fitting With Huggies Slip-Ons

I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t had much opportunity to write about Silje. Well, my sweet little girl will be 1 years old next month! Yes, it’s hard to believe time has went by so fast. She’s been reaching so many milestones lately! At the end of 9 months she started walking. At 10 months she practiced a lot & just tried to stay upward while in motion, and now at 11 months she’s…

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Silje–6 Months Old–Where Has The Time Gone? 6 Months Of Blogging In One Post

          I know you all do it at some point, you look at your baby and you say “where has the time gone?” They grow up too fast!  I remember when I had my oldest son, just 4 short years ago. It seemed like it took forever for him to get older.. I must have taken 1000 pictures within the first couple of months. I looked at his pictures just as…

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Milestones Matter: Early Childhood Development Infographic

The brain development between birth and age 3 is the most significant period of development the brain will event undergo and at 3, a toddler’s brain is twice as active as an adult’s brain.   The following infographic was put together by Rasmussen College and features some great stats and a breakdown of the key milestones for children between the ages of 2 months and 5 years.  A big thank you to them for providing…

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Baby Milestones: 12 months

Time has gone by so fast! On April 2nd we celebrated Vincent’s 1st birthday. Just today I got to see my neighbors new baby (he’s 3 weeks old) and it was amazing to think that at this time last year my son was just about the same size.  Wow, where has the time gone? In the beginning things moved so slow and I never could have imagined that by 1 year my son would be…

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A Letter To My Son On His First Birthday

Dear Vincent, For 9 long months it was just you and I.  I held my belly each night wondering who was inside there, what you looked like  and how I would feel when I finally got to meet you.  Would I be a good mother? Would we love each other instantly?  Then 1 year ago today my life changed forever.  After a pain that only a mother can know you arrived into this world at…

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Baby Milestones: 9 months

Even though I am terribly behind on my blog due to the fact that I had to serve on a jury for almost 2 weeks and baby is cutting his 6th tooth, I decided I’d go ahead and do an update on what baby learned and became interested in during month 9. It was a really big month for him and I’d have to say in terms of learning new things it rivals month 6.…

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Baby Milestones: Teething

Here comes another tooth.. and more sleepless nights. I thought that maybe Vincent was teething still but I wasn’t sure. I thought maybe his attitude was from the two bottom teeth not poking through enough but I was wrong! It seems I think too much. Yesterday while we were playing he bit me and this time it really hurt. So I moved my finger around in his mouth and

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