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The Maker of Mayhem

At his 15-month check-up, we found that the fluid behind Porter’s ear drums still hasn’t cleared out. This, coupled with the fact that he is still yelling at us in some unintelligible Eastern European dialect meant we were directed by the pediatrician to take him to an audiologist and ear-nose-throat specialist. After a [...]

Gerd, the newest member of our family.

( Illness and Porter and Sleep and Teething )

Okay. So here’s how it shakes down.
Porter is about this close to becoming a pharmacological poster child. I took him to the doctor this week due to a seemingly endless list of symptoms. A list that was punctuated with the item CRYING, LOTS AND LOTS OF CRYING (yes, all in caps). [...]

Trouble. Starts with T, which rhymes with P, and that stands for Porter.

Last week, Porter started attending a new day care facility.
Although I lucked out in getting Stella into an amazing preschool program, I knew that with Porter, I couldn’t count on that luck again a second time, and so I needed to jump on my opportunity to get him ‘into the queue’ (so to speak). [...]

The Facts

If you are curious as to where I have been, look no further than the following two faces:

My little angels: dipped in a vat of adorable, sprinkled with a fine dusting of mischief, and covered with a thousand kisses of what I can only describe as emotional volatility. And as such, I [...]