Every so often John (Tad’s college roommate) & Kymm send us gender-neutral hand-me-downs from their baby Amelia, who is about five months older than Lane. We got a box of goodies from them a couple of days ago, and along with the clothing were seven or eight Koosh balls. Apparently Tad & John [...]
Before Lane was born, I had purchased only one article of clothing for him. I was in Maine visiting Elisabeth, where I crossed the threshold of Babies R Us for the first time to gape at all the mysterious equipment that of course all parents desperately will need to get through the first year [...]
This past weekend we went camping with Lane for the first time! Camping is much easier these days, now that we have our Sportsmobile. Every year on Martin Luther King weekend we go orienteering in the Anza Borrego Desert, it’s our favorite orienteering event of the year. Logistics are more challenging with [...]
We have made our first hesitant steps into the world of solid foods! Results have been mixed. Lane had his first bite of Earth’s Best organic whole grain brown rice cereal (it’s not bad, I tried it), thoroughly liquefied with breast milk, last Saturday, January 6th. He was a bit fussy, but [...]
I got up today just before 5am. Want to know why? No, not because Lane was crying for the 7th time during the night … Because he DIDN’T CRY ALL NIGHT, and my boobs hurt, so I had to get up to pump! Yes, you read that right – Lane slept through [...]
Traveling with Lane at 4 months old had its ups & downs. Here are my lessons learned, the challenges I had, and a review of the stuff I brought with me. Overall I think it went pretty smoothly.