Girl’s Life

Merry Christmas, from our little elf family! OK, sorry but I couldn’t resist the Christmas cheese-fest. This was too funny to pass up. Click here to watch it for yourself.
Also, my sweet, innocent Sophia somehow ended up as the sexy elf. Don’t know quite how I feel about that. Regardless, I hope you all are […]

Sophia was watching a little PBS this morning as I was packing up our bag for the beach. I left the family room for a few minutes while I gathered up a couple things we needed for the day around the house. She was watching the channel live, which is pretty unusual in our house […]

Tonight, Chris turned on some 80s music after dinner while Sophia was playing (classic Chris, I know). It was pretty much the good stuff for the most part — OMD, Erasure, A-Ha. But unfortunately, the playlist gods cannot always be in our favor and soon Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child of Mine” came on. At […]

Sophia loves to draw. And by draw, I mean she loves to use anything that makes color (crayons, makeup, spaghetti sauce) on anything that will take color (her pants, our couch, the kitchen table — you get the idea). Needless to say, I was seriously thrilled when I came across Stubby Pencil Studio on Cool […]

This poll is from Babycenter.com about how toddlers (specifically for those 15 months old) communicate with their parents. Yes, Sophia whines and cries like the best of them. But it was really surprising to realize that those are not her primary (or favorite, as the polls suggests) ways to get our attention, and that […]

I’m all for Christmas music. In fact, I’ll even admit it here that I listened to the 24-hour Christmas station on my way to and from work today. But still, there is only so weird my Christmas music is allowed to get. I’ll give you a few jingle jangles and a couple fa la las, […]

We had quite a week here, with Sophia waking up Monday morning sick and disgruntled. But despite not having much of an appetite that day, she seemed fine by evening. So when the husband came down with a case of the pukies a day and a half later, we were a little surprised. You […]

When I was pregnant and constantly contemplating and researching life with baby, I heard and read a lot about teaching babies sign language to help them communicate before their verbal language skills are really strong. And I thought it sounded great! What could be better than lessening the frustration of a mini who is trying […]