It was Queen’s day here today – but since (as you might have read) the day ended rather abruptly by someone trying to drive his car into the bus with the royal family, killing only 6 innocent people from the public and himself, wounding another 11 – there was little reason for celebrations here. So [...]

12 weeks.
I know, nothing to see. But I figured I’d have to start at some point – and since last time it took for me until way past 20 weeks to really get a little bit of a belly, the 12 week mark seemed a good one to start.

See me here ripping a few hairs out.
You might have noticed and even longer gap between my last post and this one than had become my style over the last few months. No, I haven’t given up, and no, it isn’t even that the levels of pregnancy-miserable have gotten completely out of hand – not [...]

He was wheezy, crabby… so I decided it was time to break out the bath crayons and go for an afternoon bath. That helped a lot!

He found his hat. That’s all I’m saying

You’d really believe there wasn’t a grain of mischief in this little head, wouldn’t you?

We should start calling him porkchop. I just love love love that he still has a ton of babyfat on his hands. The chub, it’s irresistable.

Weather was nice, mommy was pooped, so instead of going for a walk with my outdoors-loving-buddy, we spent some time in the yard. And benches are never for sitting of course!

Toddler came back from one of his many visits to the laundry room, and had pulled on this polo over his shirt
I was quite impressed actually!

Toddler has been increasingly wheezing for a while. We eliminated it down to some food allergies… but even eliminating those foods made him end up with bouts of wheezing and feeling miserable – often after some high-activity. When he spent an afternoon alternating strolling through the room, whining, and then sitting on the couch pulling [...]