Ivy gave me a nice Mother’s Day present a day early (in addition to the lovely InStyler hair gear 🙂 ) – she began to crawl! She had been up on all fours rocking back and forth for a couple weeks prior, and was just oooohhhh so close to taking those first “steps,” but while […]

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We let Ivy bang on the laptops sometimes, to entertain herself. Well, apparently she clawed the “M” key off of Joey’s laptop, and managed to partially swallow it before we knew what was going on. Poor thing was VERY cranky immediately. I swept her mouth after first noticing the key was missing and didn’t feel […]

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I think Ivy is getting the concept of “this thing belongs HERE.” She has been pulling my glasses off my face for as long as she’s been coordinated enough to grab them. A few days ago, though, I noticed that after she played with them, rather than tossing them aside or me taking them away, […]

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I’m not really “concerned” about this right now, but did want to write about it… Back in December, I had an EKG done as part of my overall checkup, to replace the hypertension meds I had been on since delivery (techtalk: I was on methyldopa, which is the only kind they could prescribe during pregnancy… […]

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Even though we’ve got two dogs now, I found myself still looking through the available dogs at the HSPCA and the city/county shelters. Each time Joey and I went to the HSPCA, we both wanted to just bring everything home with us. Well, I decided to sort of compromise, and signed up as a volunteer […]

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