Lessons in Motherhood

I had a bad feeling that this day was coming, and here it is already.  Sophia pulled herself up and stood.  Here is the evidence.

I’ve decided that Sophia’s new nickname is DZ (Disaster Zone) because she causes chaos wherever she goes. I know that you are thinking that the little angel is only 7 months old, and that is exactly the point!!! She’s only 7 months old, and she already crawls from room to room, pulls herself [...]

I know that I’ve already given you visual evidence that Sophia can crawl, but let me tell you something…SOPHIA CAN CRAWL!!!!! Maybe you understand how a mobile infant changes your life forever, but I’m sure that you don’t.

I’m sure that you don’t know that every time I leave her on the floor [...]

As I was strapping Sophia into the car this morning, I smelled something a little funky. I looked down and her entire front was covered with poop. Now that she’s spending so much time crawling around the floor (video coming soon), she can actually explode out the back OR the front. Not [...]

I’d like to make a self diagnosis. Sophia is the youngest baby to have ADD. Yeah, ADD. The kid can’t focus on anything. I can’t nurse her for more than 20 seconds without her stopping to look around. It only takes the slightest noise – a sister screaming, a dog [...]

Lordy, Lordy look who’s well, look who’s getting bigger! The girls are all over the place these days. Aside from having her constant make-believe conversations, Hailey is also learning to write her name and to read. Here’s a picture of her writing. She’s great with H, A, L, and I. [...]

Sophia Eats from luke hamilton on Vimeo.
If you ever need a laugh, try feeding a newborn a food that she’s never tried before. Little Sophia has been such a trooper. We’ve tried rice cereal, bananas, and applesauce so far, and her reaction is always the same. She is interested in what’s going [...]

Well, Sophia is a stubborn little bugger sometimes. So stubborn that she did indeed refuse to eat all day yesterday. Of course, I rushed out of work immediately after updating you, my fine blog readers, on her hunger strike. I expected to find her screaming and causing a major scene at school. [...]

A few minutes I got “the call” from the school. Every working parent dreads these calls. Now, I don’t know if “the call” is for Sophia being cranky or Hailey spiking a fever. This particular time it was the former. Sophia has apparently refused a bottle all day. [...]

Today is the first day of school in sunny and ungodly hot Atlanta. When I was a little girl (oh, God, I’m becoming my parents!), school didn’t start until Labor Day, but alas, this is the South, and we like to get a jump-start on our worst-in-the-nation school curriculum asap. If [...]