Take my hand….

Take my hand…., originally uploaded by wskrz.
Poor Alex woke up pukey again this morning. There’s just something about Fridays and being sick….
I never knew a kid’s stomach could hold food in his stomach for more than 10 hours before bringing it back up again. Sorry. When you become a parent, you [...]

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“And you are….?”

Alex’s first official speech therapy session was this afternoon.
It quickly evolved into a free-for-all of misbehavior, manic wackiness and a general questioning of my sanity and Alex’s.
I wanted to know who had snuck into the house while Alex was taking his 3 hour marathon nap this morning and switched him with the heathen child that [...]

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Giving birth to only one child is not a crime

We’re approaching the 2 year mark with Alex (end of September, in fact) where Matt and I set a deadline for ourselves. We decided that if the yearning to have another kid wasn’t there at that point, we were going to call ourselves an official one child household.
I, however, had made my decision months [...]

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I*e Cre*m

For the love of god….
…never…
…NEVER…
mention the word ICE CREAM in Alex’s presence.
Holy crap. I knew it was one of those verboten words (on the list of what we call “spellables.” Those words that we spell so Alex doesn’t go bonkers when he hears them) but I didn’t know it was this bad.
While watching [...]

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Hired Help

That’s what I’m feeling like these days.
I don’t get those nice mommy vibes anymore because most of the time, I’m too busy doing the laundry, trying to entertain a temperamental toddler, trying to figure out what to feed said temperamental toddler and being on-call all night long for wake ups.
Truth be told, I haven’t gotten [...]

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