“Underweight,” “Off the chart,” “Failure to thrive” - all of these I have heard in the past year regarding Sam’s size. For months I have been trying to get him to gain weight because he is not high enough on “the chart.” Oh, the chart, the all important chart. Last summer, [...]

There’s a theme, a lovely theme for Sam’s best quotes of the week:
“It a big boogie; it have long arms!” and
“I have bigger boogies than Robby.” Leave it to an older brother to find competition in snot size.
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Now, I have a question for ya’ll. I was thinking about starting a book group here [...]

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Pretty sure we can give credit to my husband for the little gem that Sam picked up this week:
“I NOT gonna change my mind, so DEAL wif it!” Excellent.
Although, he did tell me I was his best friend as he went to sleep last night, so I guess I can deal with it . [...]

There are two things that I have heard constantly since having Robby. The first:
“Wow, looks like you have your hands full!”
Everywhere I go someone says this to me. Ev.Ry.Where. It started as soon as I began showing, only the verb tense was different - “Wow, looks like you’re gonna have your hands full.” [...]

Yesterday Sam totally caught me sneaking M&Ms. I don’t know what I was thinking; I knew he was on my tail as I headed into the kitchen. But you know how it is - once you decide you want something there’s just no stopping yourself. I was tired and I have a [...]

I didn’t have a favorite Sam quote from this week until we were going to bed last night, and then it was obvious.
“You happy, Mommy?”
“Yeah, I’m happy honey.  Are you happy?”
“Yeah, I lotta happy.  Let’s snuggle.”
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And for those of you waiting for an update on this, they’re pulling her blog off of their website, the [...]