Category: Baby Business

I’ve already gone over the basics of fine motor skills and development and shared a printable chart to track a child’s general fine motor progress in the first year.  But there is sooo much more …

Everyone knows about the important gross motor skills: rolling, sitting, crawling, walking, running, jumping.  But gross motor’s cousin, fine motor skills, are not as talked about and are a bit more ambiguous. So what exactly …

By far my most popular pin on Pinterest has been my chart on gross motor development.  It has been pinned, repinned and favorited more times than any other pin and is one of the top …

There has been a recent blogger revolution, started by blogger Stephanie Sprenger, in response to another article by Jenny Studenroth Gerson which paints a pretty picture of the transition to motherhood, despite all the fear mongering …

About a week before Christmas, I had a weird encounter.  One afternoon as I sat on the couch, Sugarplum came up to me, cupped her hands around her mouth, bent down by my stomach and …

This weekend was pretty uneventful.  Other than taking down the Christmas lights and lounging around the house we didn’t get much accomplished.  But we did have one very big milestone: Doodle’s first haircut! We’ve been …

 

I was recently featured in an article on Babble.com in an article on Kourtney Kardashian’s statement about not being comfortable with homebirth.  I was quoted as the only pro-homebirth mommy and while I’m okay with that, …

Our family has never lived in a place where it’s supposed to snow (we saw some while in Dublin but it was very unusual) but we usually visit snowy places at least once a year. …

Traveling with kids is not always the funnest thing and traveling by car can be more stressful for many reasons. The journey is usually longer; the kids are stuck, buckled in their seats for long …