Walking and Talking

Annabelle is doing BOTH! But, not consistently. Still, we are impressed. She does consistently take two or three steps before dropping to he...

Attachment Parenting and High Needs Babies

Annabelle is a pretty high needs baby, according to Dr. Sears. I googled "high needs baby" when someone told me she was a high nee...

Father's Day 2012

Jason's first father's day! I didn't have anything huge planned, but thought it would be fun for the artist in the family to hav...

Backsliding

Just when I thought things were going great and we'd be sleeping through the night before we knew it, we have back-slid. Annabelle is sl...

How a typical 9 month old sleeps

Bedtime between 6 and 7 p.m. Nurse between 11 and 12 Nurse again between 2 and 3 Wake for the day between 6 and 7 a.m. How Annabelle sl...

The best toys don't cost a thing.

Sleep Update

Sleep training has been going really well overall. If I look at it day-by-day, I get frustrated, but big picture, things have gotten so much...

Walking...sort of.

Annabelle is trying SO HARD to walk. She runs around the house in her walker, and walks really well holding onto our hands or furniture. The...

First over-night

The first over-night of sleep training was last night. It wasn't bad, until early morning hours. The first two times Annabelle woke up, ...

Sleep Training Update

Man, this is harder than I thought it would be to keep up with. I just keep telling myself that it will be worth it when we're don...

Swimming!

Unfortunately I couldn't take any photos of her actually swimming, since I obviously was in the pool with her. But she has a great ...

Annabelle is 9 months (and 10 days) old!

I can't believe how fast Annabelle is developing. It was slow going there at the beginning, and now all of a sudden she is taking off! ...