L is becoming quite the animal lover. She adores our cat, Coomer. She smiles every time she sees a dog. And when the girl sees birds—forget about it—she yips like a hyena and bounces up and down with excitement.
Perhaps this is why L was happier than I’ve ever seen her Wednesday night when a bunch [...]

Undoubtedly I will give L hundreds—if not thousands—of gifts over the course of our time on earth together. This week, however, apparently I gave her a present I wish I could take back: her first cold.
My symptoms arrived Wednesday evening, following a long run at the gym. Her symptoms came on in full effect this [...]

A friend and fellow writer recently described her daughter’s introduction to crawling like this: “It’s like having a pet raccoon. Foraging through everything and putting whatever (and I mean WHATEVER) she finds in her mouth.”
As L begins to crawl all over the place, too, I couldn’t agree with this assessment more.
L’s method of transportation is [...]

While Powergirl and I are head-over-heels in love with the newest addition to our family, there is one being in the house who definitely doesn’t like L that much: Coomer, our cat.
Before the baby, “Cooms” was king of the castle, the object of all the affection we could muster on any given day. He had [...]