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Elizabeth is slowly learning that some things that we do in the privacy of our home are not meant for the outside world. She’s repeated to me a few times “I put my clothes on outside so people don’t see me naked.” We still have some work to do though as I learned last week.
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I’m told I’ve been neglecting my blog lately, which I can’t dispute. My excuse is that I’ve been trapped in cloth diaper land and all available computer time has been devoted escaping it. We’ve used cloth diapers with Elizabeth and I really like them. When I have to buy diapers while we’re on vacation I […]

Me: “Did you hit your funny bone?”
Elizabeth: “No I hit my elbow.”
Frank: “What’s your bunny’s name?”
Elizabeth: “Rabbit”
The understatement of the year: Wearing one of Frank’s T-shirts, which was beyond floor-length on her, she said “it’s a little big on me.”
“I wanna put lotion on Finley’s back!”
Don’t ever say that two-year-olds don’t have important things to […]

Elizabeth has started calling me honey. I guess she figures that Frank always gets a nice response when he calls me honey, so maybe it’ll work for her.
I have to say that “change my diaper, honey” does get a quicker response.
It’s crazy how fast she dropped the word mommie in exchange for honey. I’m not […]

I’ve always struggled on how to explain attachment parenting to people who ask. When I tell people they usually look at me like “what’s so special about that?”
I just found a great definition that I am committing to memory:
Attachment parenting (AP), a phrase coined by Dr. William Sears, is a parenting philosophy that is also […]

A few weeks ago Elizabeth was getting up what felt like every hour all night long. Since I refused to wake up enough to count how many times or check the clock, I don’t know exactly how many times she was waking up. All I know is that I would wake up at 9:00 am […]