Let’s Talk Babies

The collective hearts of our community are broken today at the sad news that Layla Grace lost her battle with cancer this morning.  She was only 2 years old.  Her passing breaks my heart beyond words.

Please say a prayer and send healing thoughts to the Marsh family today as they begin the process of saying [Read the rest]

Toddlers love to mimic their parents.  They love to help out around the house.  They love to follow mom or dad around and copy what they are doing.  This natural behavior can come in handy when it comes to teaching your children life skills and helping them become little helpers around the house.  By encouraging [Read the rest]

Having a child with a nut allergy (or any food allergy for that matter) poses particular challenges when they start choosing foods for themselves.   When Maya was diagnosed with a peanut and tree nut allergy last year that was one of the first things I worried about.  I knew that for the time being [Read the rest]

Maya has one great love in her life, one love that she just can’t live without…her blankie.

When I was about 6 months pregnant with Maya, not too long after finding out we were having a girl, I made a trip to our local Pottery Barn Kids to pick up the one baby item I had [Read the rest]

Maya is a performer.  She loves dancing, singing, doing somersaults and acting out the scenes of old home movies we’ve made of her.  Put on any music or movie with dancing and singing and she is right there dancing along.  She has a passion for these Disney sing-a-long dvds mostly because it gives her the [Read the rest]