Let’s Talk Babies

It has been a long, cold winter here in St. Louis this year and I doubt it is going to be over any time soon.  I’m not a big fan of the cold as it is (I know weird given that I grew up in Canada!!) but when you add a restless toddler into the [Read the rest]

When I first found out I was pregnant I immediately started dreaming about a girl baby.  I somehow just knew that the little person inside of me was a little girl.  It turned out I was right  Those vivid pregnancy dreams of my little girl always involved lots of bows and pigtails and [Read the rest]

Yesterday was Lorne’s birthday.  Happy Birthday Babe!!  Unfortunately it was pretty anti-climatic since he was in bed most of the day sick.  Being sick on your birthday is the worst.  Maya and I did try to make the day at least a little bit special.  We spent the morning baking birthday cupcakes.  Maya’s favorite part [Read the rest]

As I mentioned in my first post about our adventures in potty training, we are taking things nice and slow at this point.  Right now we are in the “getting to know the potty” phase.  No real pressure on Maya to use the potty instead of the diaper to do her “business”.   Every time [Read the rest]

Maya’s absolute favorite place in the world to go is the zoo.  She adores animals and would all day, every day there if she could.  Luckily we have a fabulous zoo just down the street from us.  We take her as often as we can because it’s fun and I love how happy it makes [Read the rest]