Ryan « Baby Dickey

Daddy loves Raffi

I grew up with Raffi… I even went to his concert and sat front row when I was in SIXTH GRADE. I know, a little old… and I sure heard about it from all my friends at school. We have 3 Raffi CDs for Ryan now and I think I may enjoy singing them more [...]

Hey Ladies….

….my chair has room for one more, ya know what I mean?

This is the chair I bought from Pottery Barn with the $100 gift certificate I won when you guys voted me Best Pregnancy Blog at thebump.com – so THANK YOU!

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Ryan is 11 weeks old today!

Ok I just put Ryan down, asleep, and after I wrote the title for this post I looked over at him to look at how cute he is and he was staring, wide-eyed, right at me. Made me jump a little! Creepy little man. Haha.

Anyway… I don’t really have any updates on him, just that [...]

My take on EBF: exclusively breastfeeding

I always knew I was going to breastfeed Ryan, no research needed. “Breast is best,” right? Steve and I had no desire whatsoever to feed formula. (Let me put this here now: I have absolutely nothing against parents who use formula.. I don’t even bat an eye at it. Breastfeeding works for us, I realize [...]

Wait, what’s my son’s name?

When I was at the photographer’s studio placing our order, it was brought to my attention that my son apparently has a nickname. Ryan was starting to fuss so I was talking to him to help calm him. The lady came over and said, “Oh, that’s a cute nickname! Buddy or Bud!” And [...]