Choosing a baby name is easily one of the most important, yet difficult, things you will have to do when preparing for baby. If you're lucky, you and your partner will have had some midnight conversation about this years and years ago after a series of margaritas and have known what to name your kids since that day. For the rest of us, your husband wants to name your son Leonidas Clyde. For us, it's the latter. We thought we had a name in mind from when we were pregnant with Charlott[...]
Anyone who has had a small child knows that teething can be painful, exhausting and defeating (and I'm not just talking about for the baby). When Charlotte's first two teeth came in it was so... EASY! She took it like a champ, wasn't crabby, didn't cry and only got a slight fever for half a day. We should have known they wouldn't all be like that. We should have known. With lots of practice we have now figured out what works and what doesn't for our 13-month old. For us, Charlotte[...]
Before Eli and I had Charlotte you could expect to find us at our favorite Mexican restaurant way more nights per week than we care to admit. But, we were kid-free, enjoyed conversation over margaritas, and our fave Mex-taurant doubled as a sports bar. We found out we were expecting our lil' mama in May 2017. Eli deployed to Syria 4 weeks later. We both obviously spent those many months sober and alone (que the depressive violin music). By the time Eli returned from overseas I had already had C[...]