I spent most of my Friday night installing a metal gate in the doorway between our kitchen and our living room. This means we’ve taken a giant leap toward making our house “baby-proof.”
For me, a self-admitted neurotic freak, the rest of this process likely will be incredibly fulfilling.
Over the next week or so, I’ll install [...]

We came home from our trip to Las Vegas to find a baby who only slightly resembled the one we left.
First and foremost, this new baby—still named L, of course—has ditched the cold (and congestion) that was bugging her before we took off, and is now talking and cooing and yapping like always. She’s also [...]