Have Baby, Will Travel – 10 Tips for Planning International Travel with a Baby

In June 2017 we took a two week trip to France and Greece with our 6 month old baby boy. Before leaving on the trip we gleaned advice about traveling with babies from friends and from other bloggers in order to be as prepared as possible. Now, after completing several trips with our baby, we learned quite a bit about traveling as a family. We love passing along the knowledge …

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Bath Time

We recently bought a house and have spent the past few weeks settling into our little 1940 fixer upper. When we moved in I made a commitment to always have my camera sitting in an accessible place so that I could readily grab it when the mood strikes me. Capturing our little family in a photojournalistic way is very important to me, so having a house with a lot of …

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10 Must Have Items for Your 3 to 6 Month Old Baby

In this edition of the “must have” series, we’re sharing the top 10 most used items for our 3-to-6-month-old baby. Time sure does fly and wow baby’s grow and change quickly. Hopefully this list will be useful to a few of you out there. Enjoy! Portable High Chair Living in a small apartment? Going camping? Constantly on the go? This high chair folds up and can easily be thrown in …

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My Honest Feeding Story

This month I received an email from The Honest Company asking me to share about my feeding experience as a new mother in partnership with their Honest Feeding Stories series. They have set out to encourage conversation and end stigmas surrounding parent’s feeding choices. Seeing as we are coming up on six months of breastfeeding I thought it was a great opportunity to share about our journey:  Becoming a mother …

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Coen’s Birth Story

WARNING – This is a birth story. If you don’t want to read about the gritty details of birth, I’d just go ahead and skip this post! Also, this is a very long post -but so was my labor, so it seemed fitting. As the end of my third trimester grew nearer, I began actually looking forward to birth – something I never thought was possible. At the beginning of my …

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10 Must Have Items for your 0 to 3 Month Old Baby

Shopping for baby can be quite an overwhelming task. Who knew there could be so many options for… well everything? Erica is the researcher in the family and she poured hours into blogs and product reviews searching for the perfect items. I (Dave) decided to return the favor to the baby blog world and offer up our findings. In the first 3 month’s of little Coen’s life, a few items …

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Introducing Our Son

Coen Robert Baker. Born at 2:59 am on December 23, 2016. We are absolutely in love. I plan to write a more in depth birth story at a later date, but I can’t believe that just two days after I posted my last blog post about the third trimester, we were on our way to the hospital. We arrived at the hospital around 10 pm on December 21st and went …

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Pregnancy: The Last Stretch

I cannot believe that we are nearing the end of pregnancy and preparing to meet our little boy soon. I am 38.5 weeks, so we could literally meet him any day now! I thought this would be a good time to update you on how third trimester went – hopefully I am not updating you in at 41.5 weeks still waiting, but we will take it as it comes! If …

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Night Walk in Chicago

Last week Dave and I flew to Chicago for his brother’s wedding, and it felt good to get a little dose of the midwest – especially during the fall! I ate way too many apple cider donuts and made Dave drive a half hour out of our way to find them, but there is nothing like a good, midwestern apple cider donut. Eastcoasters, no, those donuts you call ‘cider donuts’ …

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Skyline Drive in the Fall

Although we love DC in the fall, there is nothing quite like a drive through the mountains to take in the glory of autumn’s colors. Last weekend we headed out of the city with our good friends James and Sarah to take an afternoon drive through Shenandoah National Park’s Skyline Drive. We packed ourselves some fall snacks and a thermos full of hot apple cider and spent a few hours …

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