Category Archives: Parenting
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 31
Posted on May 18, 2012 by Dona in ParentingThis has been the week of walking. It’s all Kaiya wants to do now. No more Ergo, she wants out. No more stroller, she wants to do it herself. It’s become glaringly obvious to me just how much more challenging motherhood becomes once the little ones become mobile. I thought I was tired after a [...]
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 30
Posted on May 10, 2012 by Dona in ParentingWell it’s been another great week in the Athavaria house. With new carpets in the bedrooms and floor boards installed in the living room, we were finally able to officially move into our new place on Friday. With my mom and Cal arriving Saturday evening, we did lots of trips up and down Vancouver Street [...]
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 29
Posted on May 1, 2012 by Dona in ParentingToday’s the big day! It’s the first day of May (my favorite month, yay!) and I woke up giddy with excitement in anticipation of our big move. Kaiya’s down for a nap, I’ve got the car packed with boxes, and now we just have to wait for noon when we’ll get the keys to our [...]
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 28
Posted on April 25, 2012 by Dona in ParentingIt’s so refreshing to come out of a week full of fussiness and irritability to emerge again in the happy, laughter-filled days that are more of the norm around here. Kaiya now has her four front teeth and the three that came in last week seem to be in a huge rush to grow. When [...]
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 27
Posted on April 18, 2012 by Dona in ParentingThis week has been all about teeth, teeth, teeth! She’s officially pushed two more teeth through this week, and has another that is already half-way there. Between sore gums and having developed a cold (think lots of snot, a raspy voice, and congestion in her chest), she’s been a fussy kid over the last [...]
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 26
Posted on April 11, 2012 by Dona in ParentingWe’re half way folks. I can’t believe that our little girl is going to hit the 6 month mark tomorrow! Everyday is so much more fun than the last and I’m so looking forward to the next 6 months. Kaiya has gone from a tiny 7 pound blob to a feisty and independent little girl [...]
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Baby Led Weaning, How to Avoid the Mash & Pureed
Posted on April 10, 2012 by Dona in Food and Recipes, ParentingKaiya began showing interest in food around 4 months. I had wanted to wait until she was 6 months old to start her on solids, but she wasn’t willing to wait. So while we were in India we started with little tastes of the foods we were eating–curries, bananas, coconut water, lentils, oranges, grapes, papayas, [...]
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 25
Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dona in ParentingSeriously there is nothing better than the days when Kaiya takes good, long naps. Today just happens to be one of those days and I am beyond loving it. It’s been 2 weeks of nonstop entertaining and this is the first afternoon we’ve had alone, just the two of us at home. I’ve chatted with [...]
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 24
Posted on March 28, 2012 by Dona in ParentingIt’s been a fun and busy week. Emily arrived on Wednesday, Irene on Thursday and mom and Cal on Saturday. We’ve all been staying at their timeshare down by fisherman’s wharf and absolutely LOVING being on vacation in our own city. Between watching the seaplanes from our patio, swimming in the salt water pool and [...]
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 23
Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dona in ParentingAlright, we’re all getting back on track. Kaiya for the first time in weeks has finally slept for more than an hour stretch at night. While we were traveling, I helped her get into some really terrible sleep habits (think shoving my breast in her mouth to keep her quiet at night so as not [...]
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