Sweet Extract

I never thought I’d be one those women. I never thought I’d be someone who would nurse my children indefinitely.
I thought, at best, I would nurse my boys until they were 6 months. If I was lucky. If I was lucky enough to have babies who made it easy for me. Babies who took to [...]

It used to stand on end. It drew comments from almost EVERYONE who’d pass us. It was his trademark.
Sebastian’s hair.
Alas, his baby duck down has grown and grown and grown. What was once a giddy porcupine became a floppy mop. And finally, it just fell. It fell into his eyes.
So, Superbowl Sunday we got [...]

In a recent post, I talked about how the boys aren’t babies anymore. Sadly, here’s further proof.
Their first pair of real shoes. Shoes that go outside. Shoes that can walk on wet ground. Shoes you can kick stuff with. Big boy shoes.

Papa brought them to the nearby high school field (with artificial turf) so they [...]

Ugh. Try as I might, I can’t seem to get anything done by the intended time. The boys turned 15 months on the 21st of January. I thought I started writing this post in time but, alas, I was wrong.
I’m not sure why 15 months seems significant, but it does. Maybe it’s just the fact [...]

On Christmas eve, we decided to join in a little religious worship for nostalgia’s sake. Since we’re not completely insane, we left midnight mass to the toddler-less grown-ups and went to the 4 p.m. mass. It turned out to be quite nice.
The church was jam packed with kids. Lots of kids. Kids wiggling. Kids [...]

So it turns out that when we’re not looking, these boys are up to no good. Witness what was captured on the super secret surveillance cam earlier this week:

I think it’s fair to say that Sebastian is well on his way to becoming a pedestrian, no?

Well, I’m a bit late in posting ’cause he’s been doing this for a while but here it is! Nicholas is hot on his brother’s heels.
God help me.

Well, we finally did it. We abandoned our babies and left town for an adults-only weekend. It IS our first anniversary, after all.
Vegas seemed like the nearest destination where we could effectively pack in such vices as fine dining (damn fine!), drinking, cigar smoking, gambling and other mature amusement that we’ve thoroughly neglected in [...]