Jack experienced his first fireworks last night from a wonderful vantage point at the Prince’s house. I was interested to see if we could get any good pictures of the fireworks from our camera, and Mark captured a couple of interesting shots, including the one to the right. We were super close to the display, and that first boom caused Jack to pop up like...

The terrible twos came on in full force this month. Jack feels compelled to say NO to everything, although since it’s “no ma’am” most of the time it’s not that hard to listen to so far. He says NO to everything except, “do you want to go outside?”, and that is met with shouts of “OUTSIDE!! OUTSIDE!!! SHOES ON!!!...

A few more car wash pictures...

I’m very aurally oriented, and am also very emotionally empathetic. In plain English, what that means is when Jack is screaming in frustration or anger, I begin to feel very frustrated and angry along with him and I want to scream too. I find it incredibly difficult to separate myself from his frustration and try and help him deal with it- instead I just make...

Such a big boy… almost 2 years old! Jack has finally made the switch to 1 nap a day. I never dreamed this transition would have taken so long. I keep struggling to find the magic sleep formula that will help him to sleep later in the morning and take longer naps, but it eludes me. People talk about their kids taking 3 hour naps every day when they were his...

I looked back today to see when the last time was that I posted here, and it’s been 10 days! Well, I’ve been super busy, so I guess I have an excuse. I’ve been blessed with several new clients thanks to my friend Char referring them to me. Jack had outpatient surgery yesterday. I won’t go into the details here, but it was a corrective...