potty training

Hitting Milestones – Great for Baby, Tough on Mommy

July 26, 2009

A girlfriend, already? I’m adjusting to you going to “cool” (preschool)! Landon is now almost two years and nine months old, and it is becoming more and more apparent that he isn’t my little baby anymore. I am trying my best to deny/ignore/dispute/negate/reject/contradict/disclaim this fact, but it is true. My sweet little boy still sleeps [...]

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Traveling with a Toddler — Day 1: Airplane and Car Rides

June 25, 2009

Since I wasn’t able to blog much while away, I want to recount my Germany trip with Landon and share the many great pictures I took: Landon and I flew from Newark, NY (around 5 p.m.), to Hamburg, Germany, to make our every-six-months-or-so pilgrimage to my parents and to see my friends. Don drove us to the [...]

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Breastfeeding and Entertaining a Toddler on a Plane

June 14, 2009

Greetings from Germany! Landon and I flew from Newark, NY, to Hamburg, Germany, a few days ago to visit Nani and Opa. My mother picked us up and we arrived in my former hometown Bremen about 1 1/2 hours later. Landon had been a doll on the plane. It was the first time that we [...]

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Easy Potty Training – On Their Own Terms

April 8, 2009

No comment . . . I have no clue how to potty train Landon, I have never really “trained” him — he is learning all by himself, on his own terms! When he was about 2 years old, I went to Toys-R-Us with him and bought him a potty. I had done extensive research on [...]