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Don’t do this to me!!

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Dear Munchkin, I love you. I love you with all my heart. That being said, you are 32 months old – just a little over 2 and a half. You are not old enough to try and give up your afternoon nap. Now, this is the second time that this has happened. Both times, you […]



No Purple Hearts for bloody noses or fevers

Friday, August 25th, 2006

We are still fighting the ever-bleeding nose here. The Munchkin woke up yesterday morning, came into our bedroom and asked for a tissue, blood smeared all down her pajamas. This resulted in her second change of sheets in two days, a total wipe-down, and more Neosporin up the nose. The kicker, of course, was when […]



A bloody nose in the middle of the bloody night

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

The Munchkin, as I’ve stated before, has inherited my unfortunate childhood propensity toward bloody noses. And she most often falls prey to this in the dead of night. Last night (two nights ago? How does this work when I’m figuring out the midnight cutoff?), she awoke crying. We were still awake, though heading for bed. […]



Sweet shopping freedom

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

It’s amazing how much you can get done when you don’t take the kids shopping with you. Friend graciously agreed to watch the Munchkin and Little Tad for me (I had baby-sat the Brain and Head last week), and Auntie and I did a marathon mall trek in the few hours of freedom I had […]