We had a good Christmas. We finished our Advent calendar in a more timely fashion this year. I enjoyed reading books about Baby Jesus with OLC. The Christmas presents were on a more modest scale this year. MFH gave me a web design book and some chocolate. He made a [...]
Newborn screening: they take a few drops of your newborn’s blood, and test it for about gazillion diseases.
The problem in Minnesota is that they keep the cards with the blood spots on them “for an indefinite period of time” which probably means FOREVER. That means they have your baby’s DNA, and can do basically [...]
We let OLC use breakable dishes all the time now–saucers for plates, and little juice glasses for cups. For a while, she was using sippy cups, but they just encouraged her to be careless with her drinks, so one night all the sippy cup tops mysteriously disappeared.
I started by giving her the sturdier and [...]
All fall, OLC and I have been going through a cycle of getting a new cold every week or so. We seem to always pick up some germ or other on the weekends when we are out running errands, going to church, and visiting the library. MFH has successfully dodged most of these [...]