I’m still hacking away at my to-do list for this month! I decided to organize Henry’s baby clothes in preparation for our June (or July arrival).

We’re lucky we even have any of his clothes. For the longest time, we thought we were only going to have one child. As a result, I gave away most of my maternity clothes, our Moby wrap, co-sleeper, etc. The only reason I saved all of his baby clothes was because I want to make a quilt out of them. I even saved the stained ones, since I only need a small piece from each one. 

Luckily my procrastination paid off in this instance.

 Image courtesy The Cinnamon Bears

While I was minoring in Women & Gender Studies in college, I was really committed to the idea that we should give little boys dolls to play with to help them cultivate their compassion and care. I remember giving my little brother a doll for Christmas.

Now here I am a decade and a half later with a two year-old boy and no dolls in sight! Honestly, I think there still might be no dolls in sight if we had a little girl (although we would have probably received several as gifts by this point). I think it has more to do with the

While we’re on the topic of Henry’s birthday, we might as well chat about his actually birthday parties! 

Yes, the phase “birthday parties” is intentionally pluralized. We purposefully planned two different celebrations to honor Henry’s birthday. 

Now that we’ve lived in Austin for a year, we have a lot more connections. I didn’t want to throw a single party and overwhelm Henry with a ton of people all at once. However, I also wanted to invite everyone. The solution was to throw a party on Saturday morning for a couple of his closest friends and to throw a separate party on Sunday afternoon for the adults in our lives whom