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Le Petit Prince Moleskine Limited Edition

Feb 28. 2011

The purveyor of my favorite notebooks has done it again. Moleskine has announced a collection of limited edition notebooks which pays tribute to the classic tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Le Petit Prince (or, The Little Prince in English). The Little Prince has been one of my favorite books ever since I first read it in grade school. In addition to the English format, I also have it in the original French which I purchased during a trip to Paris back in high school (this is also the only foreign language book I read on a regular basis), as well as a pop-up edition which my sister gifted to me a couple of years ago. Le Petit Prince Moleskine Limited Edition is available now...

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Baby, Claire, Parenting, Personal

Teething

Feb 26. 2011

Claire seems to be teething.  :-( She has been extra fussy and irritable the past couple of days. While she doesn't seem to be drooling more than usual (but then again, she's been a drooling machine for the past month), she ALWAYS has her fingers in her mouth. She is not eating as much — she will drink for a few minutes then stop and wail, as if sucking on the bottle is causing her pain — and sleeping in shorter stretches, often waking up with whimpering cries. At first I believed it to be the sleep-training regression mentioned in the How to SUCCESSFULLY teach a baby to sleep post. But then I noticed that her cheeks would intermittently turn red which...

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Sleep Training: How We Did It

Feb 25. 2011

As promised, here is my follow-up post to Sleep Training Progress. Before continuing to read, please be advised that in no way am I a sleep expert, and that you should always do your own research and make an educated decision based on your baby and your family's unique and specific needs. This post only outlines what I have found useful, and which methods worked best for us. Why sleep train? Sleep training is certainly not for every family, and not every baby needs it. The reasons we decided to sleep train are: Ever since Claire hit her 4-month wakeful period, her sleeping habits became horrible. She was waking up 5x a night and would nap for only 30-40 minutes at a time....

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An Unexpected Surprise

Feb 24. 2011

I have been especially exhausted and cranky as of late. I just chalked it off to the side effects of sleep-training Claire — I was stressed out and mentally drained. Then last week, I felt it. Nausea. Once again I brushed it off as a consequence of exhaustion. But it didn't go away. And on Friday, I realized when I had felt this way before: the first few months of being pregnant with Claire. Uh-oh. I peed on a stick. I waited 2 minutes, then examined the window. "Do you see something? Am I going crazy? I can swear that this area over here is SLIGHTLY darker. Do you see it?" J took a look at the test and declared that I must be seeing...

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Taking #2 for Granted

Feb 23. 2011

A couple of weeks ago, we had some friends come visit with their (almost) 2-year-old girl. As the men engaged in their own conversation, the fellow mom turned to me to ask how I was adjusting to life with Claire. "Things were rough in the beginning, but it's certainly getting better. It's amazing how much your life changes once you have a baby. Even taking a dump has become a timed sport." Don't ask me why I used my dookie as an example. I guess that's just the way my mind works. I heart Randy Marsh. I am continually telling J that he must act exactly like him when our kids get older. "I've almost trained my body to only do #2's in...

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