One month, and I am getting my life back. No, joke! We are never going to get our lives back. (Not that we want to...) I have always held ...

Mieka at 22 months Today, a year ago: The toddler was ten months and I was still raving about bonus days I got for taking the baby to cl...

I am taking part in Mommy Only has Two Hands A Year Ago Thursday Blog Hop . Check out the rules on Mommy Only has Two Hands . The other t...

The toddler does not say her own name.  She is 21 months. She says the names of her friends, and of her sister, but not her own name. Mieka ...

Another month has passed! Another month of toddler cuteness! Oh, we love spending time with her! We sometimes wish we can freeze the moments...

Going on holiday in the middle of the year feels like cheating! We skipped a week of rushing around, working AND the cold weather. We skippe...

Drums: Dum-Dum-Dum-Ta-Dum! The toddler is 17 months today! Quick update: (Why it is SOOOO nice that they actually grow up!) - The sleep...

(The detour at the hospital yesterday, with the abscess, got us a little bit side-tracked.) What she is doing now at 16 months : - I am a li...

Mieka had an abscess drained today in the hospital. It was a very scary experience! Our day started as usual, with us trying to get dresse...

I am so impressed with my Mieka. She is taking it in her stride: moving from the babies to the toddler’s section at the day care this week. ...

Another milestone! The toddler is apparently ready to move over to the toddler’s section at the day care. Today is her last day with the bab...

The toddler and potty training. No, we haven’t started with potty training for the 15-month old, but we caught her doing the right thing! ...

It sneaks up on you! She is 15 months. What happened to 14 months? Gone! Oi! Our little girl is getting more independent by the day! How I l...

The toddler has been speaking to us in recent times in a rounded vowel–type of language. It sounds as if she is speaking underneath the wat...

Mieka, our baby (translate toddler, but I still wants to call her my baby), was 14 months on Sunday! Every day we think she can’t get any c...

One of the biggest milestones has been reached: The toddler is walking! The day care has been telling us every day that she is walking furth...

13 months today! She is waving to us with open arms, not the “come-here” hands of earlier. And she is able to get up by herself from the flo...

The joys of being a working mother! We have left the toddler at day care again. I was on leave for three weeks. I started to work this morni...

A while back we were worried about the baby hitting other babies. We saw the disturbing behaviour while she was “playing” with a friend. But...

The baby is a toddler already! One year olds are not babies anymore. I feel sad to realize that my baby is not a baby anymore. I’ll have to ...