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Snuggle Bunny: Let’s Get Ready for Bedtime!
Every night, we read stories and say good night to snuggle bunny before Nate goes to sleep. This is seriously the most adorable part of my day. We’ve all grown fond of this cute book-puppet. Nate...
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Without a Paddle
With the sometimes sunny weather and Nate’s 1st birthday coming around, we decided to get a paddling pool/ball pool. Okay, so it will probably never get used as a paddling pool because we live in...
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From Failure to Fighter: My Breastfeeding Support Team
I’ve learned a few things about breastfeeding. Most importantly–when it’s easy, it’s easy. But lord, when it’s hard, it’s hard. We had a steep, Everest-sized learning curve (as you already know). We...
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11 months
And you’re off! This month you started crawling, perfecting the land-swim technique leaving all the toys in your wake. You love being independent and active.
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Happy Birthday Nate
Last week Nate celebrated his first birthday with a super fun polka dot themed garden party. Luckily the rain mostly held off, so our crew of 10 babies and 25 adults could play indoors and outdoors. We...
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Hello and a Confession
Well, it has been almost a year since I last blogged, but I’m planning on revving up this little blog once again because I missed it. So, what has happened since I last updated you? Well, we went to...
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A Day with the Dares
I’ve been struggling how to get back into blogging because there’s so much to catch up on. So I decided to just start with now. Here’s a day in the life of the Dares…little did I know I’d choose one...
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A Dirty Protest
There are those moments with a toddler where you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Thursday was one of them. I put Nate down for his nap as I normally do around noon. I listened on the monitor as he...
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Happy New Year!
Alex wanted to be Baby New Year, but decided to try and eat his paper sash. Happy New Year nonetheless! Do you have any New Year traditions? Since Nate arrived, we’ve celebrated by heading into town to...
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Big Rarrr!
Nate has tonsillitis. My sick toddler is as ferocious as he is snuggly. Case in point: Taken within minutes of each other on the great toddler emotional roller coaster!
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Cow & Gate 100% Fruit Pouches
This week we got a very exciting package in the mail full of Cow & Gate’s new 100% fruit packets for Alex to review. Spoiler alert: they’re yummy! We love fruit pouches in the Dare house and go...
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The Skinny on my Skinny Baby
This is like one of those weight loss adverts, but backwards. It has taken me a long time to write about Alex’s dramatic weight loss and subsequent rebound because it has taken me the best part of a...
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NYR Baby Bath and Shampoo
A couple of weeks ago, I got a package from Neal’s Yard Remedies with Baby Bath and Shampoo for the boys and an amazing cookbook for me (more on that later). Luckily, we’ve had two very mucky boys...
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Ruby & Ginger Mini Changing Bag (Review)
A few weeks ago, during a Blogtacular chat, I became antiquated with Ruby & Ginger – a really lovely brand that has some great products for babies. They sent me the Mini Changing Bag to road test...
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