James & Jax

Just to fill you guys in, that title up there? I have been muttering it all morning. And it’s still early, so that’s not good! This week is kicking my butt. Jax has had a fever since Wednesday, and he’s been a crankypants toddler. Thank god for children’s ibuprofen, because at least 20 minutes after [...]

I think I had mild food poisoning on Sunday, thanks to some habanero cheese on my Cinco de Mayo fajita Saturday night. I spent most of the day nauseated and unable to eat, hanging out in my mom’s bathroom while she and Jax had all the fun outside in the whole 2 hours of sunshine [...]

All parents have a pre-parenthood list of things we never thought we’d do once we had children, right? My list had a lot to do with food. I’m a semi-vegetarian (I occasionally eat fish) who doesn’t drink soda or buy junk food, and who eats generally pretty healthy. One of my favorite books is Andrew [...]

Just a typical spring day out in the backyard… A day that screamed for popsicles. So I surprised Jax with one. And then he requested a wagon ride. And since Rooney, our terrible terrier, can’t steal food when it’s eaten inside a wagon, I agreed! Jax requested a purple popsicle instead of a green one. [...]

I haven’t updated about sleep or how the big boy bed adventures have been going! In my case, no news tends to be good news. So if you don’t hear a sleep-related peep from me, things are probably going well! And they are. It’s been about 2 months since we transitioned Jax from a crib [...]