Happy New Year! I am normally not a resolution type o’ gal, but I decided that it’s never too late to start. I am resolving to do the following 15 things sometime in 2007: 1. Go to the gym and take DS to the kid’s club while I’m there 2. Eat less junk food and drink more water 3. Take my vitamins 4. Re-do our backyard again (basically I have to look up some paving companies and call...

Most of us can never understand what another parent goes through when faced with decisions as presented in this article. From Scientific American: Parents of a severely disabled girl recently revealed that they took the dramatic step of keeping their nine-year-old daughter pint-sized to, in their view, give her a better life. The child, Ashley, has a condition called static encephalopathy, a rare disorder that...

There seems to be a relationship between babies teething and babies having a fever. As some may know from reading Csara’s posts on the Baby Forums, our son is a slow teether. He is currently working on his molars and once again has a fever. 103 degrees to be exact. According to the table on this website, my son should be getting his canines, but his molars haven’t come in yet so we think that’s...

Check out my son dancing it up on the dance floor at the Christmas party we went to last night: [video removed]

Fifteen things I love about the holidays: 1. Snow – not that we get any here in the land of sun and rain, but we like to travel and winter time brings us the opportunity to go visit the snow. 2. Christmas decorations – the beautifully done up trees and all the lights on houses that shine at night are great! 3. Parties – I’m actually one of those people that likes to get dressed up and...

A Harvard study, the first to document the spread of the obesity epidemic to infants, reported yesterday that Massachusetts children under age 6 have gotten heavier since 1980, but the risk of being overweight has jumped the most for babies under 6 months.The findings, published in the journal Obesity, add to concerns that the growing number of children who are born heavy or gain weight quickly in early life...

In the forums I spotted a great thread that might be very useful for new moms. The thread in the Baby Forums is titled “Calling All Moms.” The purpose of the thread is to list all the products BT Moms use and their rapid response review. New parents might find some products listed they didn’t know before or the list might confirm their decisions on which items they were going to buy or add...