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Our flight is delayed and Lexi is crashed out. She asked for boobie before she went down. I haven’t spoken about breastfeeding for a long time because it has almost ceased.…
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Can we take a moment and appreciate the change in these two photos, taken almost precisely a year apart? How could she be so big? How can a simple year make such…
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Baby girl! I stopped my monthly letters because you’re growing so fast that it would impossible to keep track of everything, and you’re increasingly (I would never think it’d be possible)…
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As a little treat for me and those of you who have grown to love Alexis, I’ve put together a compilation of my favorite short 6-15 second Instagram videos that span…
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I started writing this post a few months ago and now coming back to it, the truth is she is changing soooo fast cognitively that it’s absolutely useless to be writing…
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Other posts in this series: Physical Development: 13-16 months So by now it is pretty clear that Lexi IS NOT A TALKER. A runner– yes! An energizer bunny– definitely! A singer–…
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Last part of the Birthday Photos. 1st Birthday: Morning of 1st Birthday Party Planning and Decor 1st Birthday Part Part I 1st Birthday Party Part II Smash Cake 1st Birthday The End…
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How much fun are toddlers? The answer is A LOT OF FUN! It’s a pretty recurring theme here on the The Art of Making a Baby. But it’s true. We’ve known…
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Before I had Lexi, I remember talking to a friend of mine who has a particularly active baby as well, about how she HAS to take her places because staying home…
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We’ve been having a ton of fun dusting off my long forgotten SingStar disks, Rockband game and our keyboard and drums. Alexis instantly took to all of it and asks to…
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For more on Signs please read “Baby Signs” post I know I only recently wrote a post on sign and using sign languages for babies, but it has been getting better and better.…
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I’ve had this post written in my head for MONTHS. Since Alexis started walking full time at 11 months. And it was only now when a reader asked me to write…
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First Birthday Party Part II 1st Birthday: Morning of 1st Birthday Party Planning and Decor 1st Birthday Part Part I 1st Birthday Party Part II Smash Cake 1st Birthday The End {All…
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First Birthday Party Part I 1st Birthday Party Planning and Decor 1st Birthday Part Part I 1st Birthday Party Part II Smash Cake 1st Birthday The End PHOTOGRAPHY One of the best decision…
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Our Vine videos from the beginning. It’s a bit slow in the beginning, but gets much cuter half way through. Join us on Vine: The Art of Making a Baby…
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Rather than doing monthly updates for the whole 2nd year of Alexis’ life, I decided that it would be much more fun and special to regularly write about all the cute…
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Here is the best of the best from December I hadn’t gotten around to posting. {I am not sure how I missed Decemeber so completely, so I am going back to that. I…
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First Birthday Party Decor & Planning 1st Birthday: Morning of 1st Birthday Party Planning and Decor 1st Birthday Part Part I 1st Birthday Party Part II Smash Cake 1st Birthday The End…
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The long awaited walking videos. As I wrote in the 11months post, Lexi started walking full time {with support} at 9 months and then with one hand + first independent steps…
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I don’t know where to start. Again. Again. You’ve blown our minds. Yes, we are first time parents so our minds are pretty easy to blow. But you’re still a rockstar,…
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It’s only month 10 and I am already starting to run out of words for you. There is so much that you do, so much that changes on daily basis, and…
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Dear Lexi, This is the age! The age when I considered other people’s kids BIG. I look at you, though, and you’re still so small, so fragile, so vulnerable. There’s yet…
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This video is two weeks too late and so many changes happened development-wise in the meantime, but this is what life was all about for our little Alexis between being 7…
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Since I had to post the 8 Months Update before I had a chance to download the 8 months pictures, I am posting the photo and outtakes now.…
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WHAT? No wait, wait! *Shaking head* You’re 8 months? That can’t be. I remember reading blogs where babies were 8 months and thinking how big they were, but you’re still so little. You…
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The first video here is the highlights of everything that being a 6 months old entails. The second video is her highness playing with toys, mostly boring but with a few…
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Dear baby girl, You are 7 months old. The number blows my mind. I remember reading other people’s blogs and thinking how big their babies were at 7 months. And here…
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I’ve been pretty busy for the past few weeks attempting to get things in a semblance of order as well as having fun with friends and thoroughly enjoying my baby girl who is…
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Here is what you’re about to see: her first crawl-like move lots of playing attempting to grab kitty’s tail and laughing her butt off hilarious peekaboo talking to grandma over skype…
