Hey, you’re new! I love new people, welcome. You may want to subscribe to Baby-Log via RSS feed or via email. Thanks for visiting! This question has been on my mind a lot lately. Maybe Eric’s second birthday triggered it all and maybe it’s the endless questions of everybody we know (and don’t know!) [...]

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1. Our daughter turned two in December and we’re expecting our second in late July. My wife had siblings older and younger than her and enjoyed it immensely. I have a sibling, but there is a rather large gap between the two of us, so we’re not nearly as close as I would like. We wanted our daughter to have a sibling she could be close with and we are not really hoping to still be supporting children into retirement age, so it made sense for us to go ahead and have another now. Sometimes we wonder what we have done, but I imagine that after the initial growing pains, it will really turn out wonderfully. When we are able to take meaningful family trips there will be more fun for the kids as they can enjoy things together.

   Comment by J — February 5, 2010 @ 8:09 am

2. I once had a dream of camping when the kids got older…then the kids got older and hated camping.LOL!!
   Have fun with this, good luck!
   Gerardine Baugh

   Comment by Gerardine Baugh — February 6, 2010 @ 1:56 am
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Wow. I can’t believe today is the last day of 2009. It seems like only days ago we were celebrating it’s beginning. And just in time, Simplemom.net posted some questions for me, as a parent, to think about, to look back and see how I measure up - and to make future plans.
Here’s what [...]

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1. Happy New Year!!

   Comment by Gerardine Baugh — December 31, 2009 @ 6:47 pm

2. Happy New Year to you too, Gerardine!

   Comment by Emma — December 31, 2009 @ 10:28 pm

3. Happy New Year to you all!

   Comment by Mike — January 1, 2010 @ 8:32 am

4. What a thoughtful list of questions/responses. Wishing you a very happy and healthy 2010!

   Comment by Elizabeth — January 4, 2010 @ 2:23 pm

5. Thank you Elizabeth! And you, too, have a great start to 2010!

   Comment by Emma — January 5, 2010 @ 5:04 am

6. happy new year 2010 too…:)

   Comment by Pauline — January 6, 2010 @ 8:31 am
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My wonderful readers and fellow bloggers,

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. May all of you spend it the way you like it - with tons of guests and visitors, or just the closest family, the important thing is that you make it special.

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1. I found your blog through ICLW. Thanks for the holiday wishes. I wish you a beautiful holiday as well!

   Comment by WifeyC — December 24, 2009 @ 10:49 am

2. Wishing you a Merry Christmas! Hope you have a wonderful day.

   Comment by Kim — December 24, 2009 @ 10:59 pm

3. I hope you had a very, Merry Christmas!

   Comment by Gerrardine Baugh — December 26, 2009 @ 6:40 pm

4. Thank you! And you, too!

   Comment by Emma — December 27, 2009 @ 8:11 am

5. Happy Holidays to you, too!!

   ICLW

   Comment by C h i r l e e n — December 28, 2009 @ 12:29 pm
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Every year we have 10 good months and 2 crazy months. Did I say crazy? I meant 2 wacky, insane, psycho, lunatic months. This is when Eric’s grandparents are visiting from overseas.

Frankly, I find the whole situation ironic. They come and I quote “to help out with the kid”. But instead they turn our life upside down, drive everyone absolutely mad (family dog is no exception) and make me SO tired. Instead of looking after one child, I find myself looking after one child and two adults, who present constant and immediate danger to him.

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1. I have no helpful words to offer.

   **HUGS**

   Comment by LaToya — October 24, 2009 @ 9:42 pm

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3. Wow, that sounds painful! I can’t even imagine this!! I don’t live near my family and wish they were closer so they were part of my childrens lives. I think if I were in your situation, I’d be happy with them 1/2 way across the US.

   I can’t begin to think of how you can make this
   ight. It sounds like these 2 are lacking in common sense and how do you teach that to people who seem to have lived without it for so long?

   Good luck!!! Found you through Mom Link Round Up.

   Comment by Mimi — November 20, 2009 @ 11:13 am
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Take it from me - there are a lot of issues in parenting you can lose a friend over.

Read more… or Read more right here… »

You can argue endlessly about which way is better:
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1. I parent differently from most of the families around me and I’m constantly having to defend my choices. I think the issue that people have when you do something differently is that they equate that with the notion that you think they did it wrong. But I agree with you 100%.

   Comment by LaToya — August 25, 2009 @ 9:58 am

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3. Well written!

   Comment by Kristin — August 26, 2009 @ 2:31 pm

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Take it as a quiz. How many things your kids like can you name in one minute?
0 - You’re a crappy parent.
1 - You’re a forgetful parent.
2 - You’re a busy parent.
3 - You could have done better.
4 - Not bad, but you need to try harder.
5 - Ok, that’ll do.
6 - Stop [...]

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1. Bubba: Reading, writing, painting, building with blocks, singing, dancing, riding his bike, the beach, the park, playing pirates, cooking

   Chubba: ripping paper, reading books, eating, dancing, following big brother around the house

   But of course with small children this could all be different by morning.

   Comment by LaToya — August 14, 2009 @ 10:01 am

2. Ripping paper! Of course, I can’t believe i forgot this one - Eric loves it too :)

   Comment by Emma — August 14, 2009 @ 5:57 pm
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Since I can remember, frugality guides me in most of the things that I do. It doesn’t mean I get it right every time, nor does it mean I don’t make mistakes in my choices and decisions. Last vacation was the perfect example of such mistake, when frugal spelled disaster.
Sometimes, certain things simply can’t [...]

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1. Your snowman pic made me giggle, but I’m sorry you had such a rough time. We’re so frugal (read:poor) that we only ever go on camping trips anyway. . .

   Comment by Me — August 10, 2009 @ 2:08 pm

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   Pingback by Festival of Frugality #193 – G.I. Joe Edition | The Canadian Finance Blog — September 1, 2009 @ 4:05 am

3. [...] at Baby Log wrote in this month to tell us about the 4 mistakes she made on a recent ski vacation. I’d argue that these are four mistakes one could make on [...]

   Pingback by Inspring Travel Monthly Roundup – October Edition | Sharing Experiences — October 4, 2009 @ 7:03 am

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Ever since Eric turned 12 months, I started to get this question a lot. Everybody seemed to be interested in what he is eating, from our child’s health nurse to people I accidentally bumped into after not seeing them for months.

And 9 times out of 10 the question “What is he eating?” was followed by “Is he eating what you’re eating?”. I would normally start telling them about how I cook separately for Eric and they would get this worried look on their faces. And then they would start questioning me why Eric doesn’t eat what the rest of the family eats. The message was loud and clear - it is wrong to be feeding the child special meals.

This got me thinking - am I really doing something silly here? Obviously there are many reasons to feed the baby what Rob and I eat.

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1. With my oldest I made his food separately until he hit 10 months and was eating more complexed things. Then it was whatever I ate (which I think has contributed to his pickyness because I don’t really eat a lot of the good stuff). With the baby he eats whatever we do. I just don’t have the time to make separte stuff. So at 8 months he gets whatever I’ve made for the meal.

   That said I do have things that are just for the kids: kid/baby yogurt and things like that.

   Comment by LaToya — June 3, 2009 @ 9:25 pm

2. Wow, you are one lucky woman! Seriously, I was trying Eric on solids since 6 months and at 8 he barely started tasting steamed apples :) And your kid eats with the rest of the family!

   Comment by Emma — June 7, 2009 @ 11:56 pm

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4. I just wanted to let you know the current edition of the Homesteading Carnival is now posted http://mountaineercountrywv.blogspot.com/2009/07/homesteading-carnival-104-no-frills-im.html . Thanks for participating.

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Have you ever felt like “This is too good to be true”? Normally if things seem that way, they turn out to be that way, too. So now that I’ve found a child care center that sounds like “too good to be true”, does it mean that I’m incredibly lucky or does it mean that I’m clueless and just don’t see things as they really are?

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2. I’m so glad you found a place. I hope that the adjustment goes well for mommy and little one.

   Comment by LaToya — May 4, 2009 @ 9:01 pm
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You might have noticed an unusually long pause between my posts. This week I found out that when Eric gets really sick, I stop being a blogger and become just a mom with a primary goal to make it better for my little boy. Nothing else matters.

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1. I fully trust my instints, have ever since I was preggers. I think that strong bond and emotion are more nurtured through natural birthing or an environment where you can be 100% in tuned with your body and baby.

   But it has failed me before. Before my second son was born my oldest was sick with what I thought was a cold that just kept coming and going for about 6 weeks. When I finally took him to the doctor he had pnuemonia and the baby had RSV. 2 weeks later he had a sinus infection and 2 weeks after that an inner ear infection. The Dr. assured me that some of the sickness could be due to depression over the new baby. But I beat myself up a bit nonetheless.

   We’re not perfect and neither are our instincts.

   Comment by LaToya — April 20, 2009 @ 7:17 pm

2. Interesting to know.

   Comment by Lucy — April 22, 2009 @ 9:13 am

3. LaToya, I beat myself up too for not taking Eric to the doctor’s a day before. It’s so hard to admit that we’re not perfect mothers, personally I hate making mistakes and get so angry with myself.

   Comment by Emma — May 7, 2009 @ 9:02 pm

4. Yes Emma, I have felt the same way you did. My eirich seemed so weak and just lying on the bed almost half day. He’s not that cheer like he used to be and I became worried about him. he had a fever the day before, and I thought it’s going to be okay the nxt day. but I was wrong. Cuz his condition was worse than before. He’s getting diarrhea and pup -fully liquid- almost every 15minutes. My husbend just told me to calm down because he said that diarrhea is a nature sign that you are getting better. And my fool that i was believe on that.
   But the night, I was very worried and decided to visited the doctor whatever happen. I couldn’t stay and just saw my son suffred.
   and thanks God I was not too late because the doctor helped me cured my erich by his medicines.

   Comment by Rissa — March 1, 2010 @ 1:14 am

5. Yes, Rissa, that’s exactly what I’m talking about - other people will tell you not to worry, but the only thing that matters is what YOU feel. No matter who they are, a husband, a mother in law, whoever.

   Comment by Emma — March 1, 2010 @ 4:32 am
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