Kids do NOT possess this.
Mrs. V., Ane’s teacher, told me when I picked her up at school yesterday, that she had told her classmates how “her baby brother is coming.”  Mrs. V. is well aware of what my due date is, and told me how excited Ane was.
Then Ane ran up to me, all breathless, [...]

I draw the line at plumber’s crack.
It was okay if Ane’s jeans were a smidgen short at the ankles.  When she started having to be told constantly – through no fault of her own – to keep hitching up her jeans, I knew it was time to go clothes shopping.
As part of my continuing to [...]

We bought our minivan when Tad was just shy of a year old, so we’ve never had an infant car seat in there before.  Since the minivan is our primary family vehicle, that’s obviously where it’s going to be.  Since Tad still rides in a 5-point harness car seat (not that he truly needs it, [...]

I am slowly but surely tackling those items on my list of “things to do before Rerun arrives.”
Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa came over Monday with the basinette.  This is a family tradition – and probably too old to be considered “safe” anymore, but three generations have slept in it.  Ane loves hearing the list of who [...]