I caught lil’ bear babbling away yesterday, and whenever I watch this video I can’t help but smile. His chubby cheeks and many chins just make me grin. Also, at 11.5 weeks, I believe he is quite advanced with all this babbling.

He may look all cute and innocent, but this kid is a stinker. A real stinker that goes four days without pooping, making me become obsessed with bowel movements. Since I went Paleo, his movements have decreased to once every three or four days. This morning, day three of the current count brought a good diaper with a good-sized poop. I thought, “We’re...

After a yummy bottle of boob juice, lil’ bear fell asleep in my lap this afternoon. It was such a sweet moment, and then I remembered why he already sleeps in his own room. **you might need to turn your sound up** His little snore is quite cute now, but I believe that the level of snore volume increases exponentially with size in the Baldwin clan. While small...

Yes, I accidentally skipped week four. Ooops! I keep trying not to have second child syndrome and take just as many pictures, but the fourth week just blew past me. So I’m catching up with week five. And yes, we are already in week six, but I’m going to get on it this week…promise. Lil’ bear is getting that receding hairline look, which seems...

*this one might get a little long as I explain things* Remember how I mentioned in Part I of this story that we had watched Downton Abbey the night before heading to the hospital? It was the super sad episode, and when the Hubs mentioned that it was not something we should have watched, I replied that she had high blood pressure. I did not have this issue at all, and...

There are two parts to this story – two very different volumes. It started pretty early the morning of January 28, 2013. At 6:00 am we got in the car and headed to the hospital for our scheduled C-section. While I had hoped to go in for a VBAC, this boy did not have any intention of coming out. Since the chances of vaginal birth after the due date get slimmer...