Well, at least for us. Its been quite the process for us to finally figure out something truly safe once Penelope became mobile. When she was a tiny baby, and couldn’t move, we never thought twice about leaving her in our bed alone to nap. When she started rolling over, I made a wall of …Continue Reading »
Current Giveaway: 5 Class card for Baby/Tot Yoga!!
August 31, 2010 By 17 Comments
If you haven’t heard, Itsy Bitsy Yoga classes are back! Baby Yoga starts September 13th and Tot Yoga starts September 9th. In honor, I am giving away one 5 class card ($40 value)!!! You can enter up to SIX times in the following ways, but remember to leave a COMMENT FOR EACH ENTRY. 1) add …Continue Reading »
Friday Link Love: 8.27.10
August 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I came across an amazing non-profit this week. Its called MamaBaby Haiti. Its a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and well being of mothers and babies. Their mission is to lower the maternal, fetal, and neonatal mortality rate in Haiti. MamaBaby Haiti is formed by a group of midwives and naturopathic doctors who …Continue Reading »
Baby Footprint Memories
August 26, 2010 By 8 Comments
Since Penelope was two days old, we have been creating ink stamps of her sweet, little feet. It all started because the second day she was born, our midwife came over and stamped her feet for our birth records. It was so cute, it inspired us to keep going! I haven’t been doing a baby …Continue Reading »
Baby and Tot Yoga are BACK!
August 25, 2010 By 14 Comments
This is a video of Penelope learning how to take a deep breath and say Om! She JUST figured this out. All it took was one hour of yoga with older toddlers (This week I starting teaching a local preschool, one hour a week) doing it and she figured it out. I am constantly amazed …Continue Reading »
New Possibilities, New Business
August 22, 2010 By 2 Comments
Yesterday I asked you to empty your cup. Because today I want to fill it with something. Something, that when I was first introduced to it, I had a knee-jerk reaction to it. I thought, “oh jeez, hear we go, another pipe dream.” Luckily, my father was gentle and persistent and waited patiently for me …Continue Reading »
Empty Your Cup
August 21, 2010 By 1 Comment
When I attended my very first Birthing From Within training, one the first things they taught us was how to empty our cup. How do you empty your cup, you ask? Well, first let me tell you a story. A Zen student was having tea with his Master. He held out his cup to be …Continue Reading »
Friday Link Love 8.21.10
August 20, 2010 By 5 Comments
Beautiful story of a mother who lost her baby and instead of letting her milk dry up, she is pumping and donating her breast milk. Here is the story from the above mom’s own words. Beware its hard to read and there is a picture. If you are pregnant or very newly post partum, I …Continue Reading »
Cornias Family Pizza
August 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
I found this recipe in a magazine several months ago and tweaked it a bit to make it our own. It has become a family favorite and we make it at least once a month. And now that Penelope is trying meat, she gets to eat a little bit of everything on the pizza, except …Continue Reading »
Baby/Tot Yoga VIDEO: So Big!
August 18, 2010 By 9 Comments
This is a video of Penelope doing her first yoga pose all by herself! It’s called So Big. The way you do it is you sit on the floor with your legs together and feet pointed up towards the ceiling. Make sure both sits bones on are the floor (your sits bones are the bony …Continue Reading »
Elimination Communication
August 17, 2010 By 8 Comments
We have decided to try Elimination Communication in our house. Err…I mean with Penelope (although Peter and I do communicate about our elimination, it goes like this, “I need to PEE! Right NOW! Can you PLEASE hold the baby!?!”) I never dreamed I would be participating in something like this. I am about as crunchy …Continue Reading »
