I haven’t met my cousin’s wife Sarah in real life, but we “met” on Facebook last year when I profiled her adorable pregnancy announcement. Well she’s actually that creative all the time, and my cousin Richie goes along with it and the results are undeniably adorable. I’ve been waiting since…
Congratulations, you are having a baby! The news is often followed by a surge of excitement and trepidation. For most this is welcome news. You begin to feel the subtle changes in your body and how you feel daily. The thought that there is a life growing inside you can…
As part of an effort to make more resources available for parents on the Northshore, I’ve begun touring local hospitals and speaking with their staff. This way parents can get a peek at local hospitals before they go in for an official tour. The first hospital I visited was Slidell…
This post is brought to you by Old Mandeville Preschool. Many years ago a child could arrive at Kindergarten with almost no knowledge from home. This year was designed to get kids ready for “real” school which began with first grade. These days kids are expected to do much more…
One night last week, my husband and I were in the kitchen, chatting as we put the 900th coat of paint on our cabinets, and he said the words “school” and “next week”. It hit me like a ton of bricks. Our twins, my *babies* would be in pre-K this…
I wanted to title this post “My journey to a VBA3C,” but that title might be a little misleading. I did not attain my VBA3C goal. In fact, I had a “failed VBA3C” as I’ve seen it called. I did try. I tried my hardest. However, my plans are not…
There are lots of Cajun names that are still in use today–especially in south Louisiana. But even out outside of Cajun country names like Aaron, Charles, or Christine just seem American at this point. This list does not include any of those names. Rather, I looked through the common names…
All 3 of my babies were born in the late fall/early winter. The isolation that comes with a newborn is magnified when it’s cold and rainy and there is the threat of flu and RSV everywhere. However, just like those sleepless newborn days end, so does the winter and then…
This amazingly adorable video was posted on Facebook and is now blowing up the Internet. I’m not sure what I like more–that mom is willing to go all out to have fun with her daughter or little Jaylyn asking you to not laugh at her. she kills me, im…
Parents can be confused and frustrated when their child is not talking. The child may have no known childhood developmental disorders or medical diagnosis, yet for some reason the words won’t come or the child is very difficult to understand. As pediatric speech-language pathologists (SLPs), we encounter these children daily….