L discovered something new this morning: beauty marks. After she spotted one on my shoulder, she tried to remove it and keep it for herself.
This episode followed a morning earlier this week in which L attempted to “clean” my chest of chest hair. That first exchange fascinated me; today’s beauty mark drama nearly prompted me [...]

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 [...]

I’m learning quickly that in infants, teeth announce their arrival like kings of old—with lots and lots of fanfare.
Last night, the spectacle took a number of heinous forms, including multiple crying fits (one of them lasted 90 minutes…at 3 a.m.), an ornery little girl and a poop explsion that somehow managed to rocket from baby [...]

A much-anticipated visitor arrived in L’s mouth this morning: Her first tooth.
Powergirl and I had been suspecting incisor emergence for some time; over the last week or so, the baby inexplicably has been waking up in the middle of the night and has been drooling like a maniac.
Still, when the two of us spotted the [...]