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Where have I been? Why no blog? Have I been inventing a new way to keep baby socks in place? Sadly, no. Sunday: Law and Order SVU marathon M...

OFFICIAL BABYVILLE MEMO To: All Babies Re: Socks Importance: High ------------------------------------ Dear Baby, By now, you will have noti...

A couple of weeks ago, my mom sent me an article about bisphenol A . As it so happened, the fancy shatter-proof gas-reducing bottles we'...

It seemed like everyone was catching a glimpse of the elusive baby smile. Everyone except me. Grandparents saw it. Dad saw it. I'm prett...

So I added a site meter to my blog last weekend. The reasons were twofold. Mainly it was pure curiosity; I wanted to see if anyone besides m...

I've gone and joined Weight Watchers. Yup. I'm going to try and get rid of some of this baby weight. Then I'm going to try to dr...

What, I'm supposed to go more than post without blogging about my beautiful little baby? Every year, Max's company takes it's em...

I love it when commercials try to manipulate me. It's not that I enjoy being manipulated per se, but it's the thought that I'm ...

We recently started putting Samson to bed in his own room (gasp!), in his own crib (gasp gasp!). For the first few nights, it was amazing. L...

This week's theme was social interaction. Samson had three play dates this week, two trips to Target and Family Chanukah! No wonder I...

Wait, what? A whole month has gone by? Or, it's only been one month? I feel both ways, simultaneously. Once again, time has lost it...

Check out my sucky baby: He's like one of those suckerfishes that eats algae off the sides of fish tanks. My folks got us an awesome cam...

I know that I'll eventually stop feeling so completely pooped, or that I'll become immune to tiredness, or something. Right? Every t...

A clarification: in the title of my last post, Bessie is meant as a reference to a dairy cow. Bessie is by far the most popular cow name, an...

Day 12 of parenting...never has time held such little meaning for me. Twelve days? Twelve days? I've only been doing this for TWELVE DA...

So the baby. He does things. Really adorable squishy things! Eating, sleeping and pooping mostly, and I'm guessing that nobody really n...

He's here! Max Junior has officially joined our little family. Our wriggly, cuddly, delicious smelling baby boy was born just before 6 a...

Ugh. I am the world's largest woman for Halloween. And my ankles are the world's largest ankles for Halloween. But apparently my bod...

We had a 5.6 earthquake about 90 minutes ago. Max and I both felt it, and the dogs totally started to bark and run around the house. It was ...

This baby is officially tardy. True, he has another 7 hours and 10 minutes to show up, but let's face it folks, it ain't happening t...