Tag Archives: Baby

Ivy’s Birth Story

Since early in my pregnancy with Ivy I had had a feeling she was going to be born on, my Grandpa Mason’s birthday, which is November 27th. As it turned out she was born on the 29th but I did go into labor on the evening of the 27th.
So many people have misconceptions of what [...]

Ivy Eleanor Stewart

Ivy Eleanor Stewart was born on November 29th, 2009 at 2:30am. She weighed 8lbs, and is 21 inches long. Welcome to the world precious baby girl!

Preparing

In these last few days before the arrival of our second child arrives, I have been looking at the early photos of Damian and rereading his birth story. He has grown so much in these past 17 months, I’m in awe. This is one of my favorite, he is just a couple days old here, [...]

Damian’s First Year

Though Damian is 16 months old now, I think that my anticipation of Ivy’s birth coupled with this week long flu (which has been keeping me somewhere between the couch and sleeping) has mixed a large dose of nostalgia into my psyche and given me the time to make another collage. My laptop really hates [...]

Review: Summer Infant Extra Tall Walk-Thru Gate

So I wrote this review once already, Wordpress ate it, but I am stubborn so here it is again.
Until now we have used 2 24″ pressure mounted baby gates (the standard inexpensive ones) on either end of our hallway to keep Damian off the basement steps. Not only are they very steep but they are [...]