I was given the most loveliest gift ever: the crack!star. The crack!star is a magical toy that plays music, flashes bright colors and, apparently, sends super-stealth mind waves straight to the brain of my baby boy that say: GIGGLE, DAMNIT. The crack!star looks like a happy face that's been rolling back prices in the Halloween aisle of Walmart, but don't let its clownish appearance fool you. This...

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Cael spends a good portion of his "happy time" licking and sucking his knuckles. Will this develop into thumb sucking once the digit in question becomes more opposable? Or am I doomed to have one of those boys that walks around asking, "Want to see me stick my whole fist in my mout...

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Living life in two hour chunks has got to go... especially when the in-laws live an hour an forty-five minute drive away. I have now nursed in three different cars, in a variety of parking lots (mostly fast food, but I also do gas stations and abandoned strip malls), on bleachers, on a picnic table and in six different towns off the I-5 corridor. As an eatery, I am more ubiquitous than McDonal...

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Cael is two months old...

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Cael is in his very fussy phase (please be a phase, please be a phase...), which leads to a lot of immobility on my part. When I finally manage to calm his hysterics, the last thing I want to do is move him. I handle him much like I would a live bomb - I use extreme caution so that I don't jostle him and trigger an explosion of life-threatening proportions. (Seriously. You should hear this kid wail.)...

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