I never took Lamaze while pregnant with Sunny. I thought my body would guide me threw her delivery and it did- but in the most appalling and horrible way possible. I gave natural birth to a nearly nine pound turkey child. Anyhoo… at some point in the early months I met a great group of ladies who had all taken Lamaze together and birthed winter ’09 babies like me! They welcomed Sunshine and I into […]

I don’t know how we got here, to this place, where I tell Sunny to do something and then she tells me to suck it runs off with an attitude. We are were potty training.  She is was doing great. Until today were we went to Target to pick out big girl undies and she chose Thomas the Tank Engine. Me: Honey those are for boys. Her: Choo- Choo! Me: Okay, lets look at them. […]

My dear friend Erin sent me an email tonight with the title: I can’t believe how much they’ve grown. She was referring to my  Sunshine and her best buddy Aidan , or Aid-dee as she calls him. Aid-dee now has a baby brother, Sunny now has hair, and both of them  walk, talk, destroy stuff, and do a mean impersonation of a toddler. I can’t believe it either Erin. I just can’t believe it.  

Tomorrow she’ll be 22 months old. She jumped in our bed last night and snuggled under my covers.  I told her how when she was a baby she used to sleep in Mommy and Daddy’s bed every single night. She said. “No! Gay-cee big girl!” Yep, you sure are, but you’ll always be Mama’s baby.

I was going to dress Sunny up as Richard Simmons for Halloween. She has a curly mullet, a big attitude, and can surely sweat to the oldies- but her mullet grew out just in time for her to avoid what would have been the funniest Halloween costume ever! Well…it was the growing out of the mullet and the fact that I’m not the sewing maven I thought I was. So I, like many other adoring […]