I’ve been doing this for about a week now with my eight week old. It helps that I was exclusively breastfeeding up until now. With my first I started supplementing at the beginning to help her gain weight, and my supply never caught up.

Also, new book smell is the best smell.

Out here in New Mexico they live in all the nooks and crannies around the outside of a house. I caught my cat playing with a huge female once by repeatedly bopping it with his paw. She just wanted to run away.

Tickets are a great idea and something I’d appreciate more than another toy for the kids cluttering up the living room. Just make sure it’s something the whole family can enjoy, and the parents are ok with. I dont want my kids going to trampoline play places, and if you got my kids tickets to Chuck E. Cheese I would…

Trader Joe’s cards are the best! I buy one here and there and always have a big stack for birthdays and a small stack for congratulations, get wells, thank yous, and sympathies. It beats having to pick out so many specific cards per year and dropping $5-$10 for each one.

My second is a week old today. It’s been like night and day with this one, because we knew what to expect this time and prepared accordingly.