Joshua had his routine 6 month cardiology appointment this morning.  Erick wasn’t able to go with us so I was pretty worried about how it would go since it took both of us to calm him down last time.  Fortunately, one of Erick’s classmates was doing her peds rotation at the time so she was […]

The weather in the DC area has been ridiculously cold for the last couple of months but it was finally cold for a reason yesterday—it snowed.  I’d been anticipating this for some time & bought a sled from Craigslist last fall so that Joshua could learn to not hate the snow like he had the […]

Joshua & I went to a friend’s place for a playgroup get-together yesterday & it turned out to be more eventful than I’d anticipated it would be.  We were all playing in her living room when Joshua & other child went to the other room to play or explore.  Joshua stared at their fireplace & […]

Erick jinxed us.  We’ve been expecting Joshua to realize he can climb out of his crib for about a year now & last February, I bought a toddler bed rail in anticipation, so that we’d be ready to convert his crib to a daybed as soon as he started to escape.  The rail was sitting […]

This year was another Christmas as a threesome at home & we enjoyed ourselves.  Joshua woke up early, as do most kids on Christmas morning.  When we got downstairs, he got so excited when he saw all the presents stacked up under the “tree” (drawings & artwork that we made then taped to the wall […]