http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Miami Valley moms dish about the wonderful, often humorous and always challenging role of being a mother including: families, kids, babies, pregnancy and things to do with kids in the Dayton and Springfield area. Lucy Baker (a copy editor at the Dayton Daily News) is a mom of three. Darci Jordan (a columnist for the Dayton Daily News and Springfield News-Sun) is the mom of two boys with a girl on the way en-us motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com 2012-05-21T06:59:09-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/05/21/every_parent_on.html I had the privilege of spending some time with an array of people from Dayton Children’s Hospital recently. Thankfully, my visit wasn’t because one of my kids was sick or injured, but I was invited because I’m a mom and... 17408836@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-05-21T06:59:09-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/05/14/an_unwelcome_vi.html It has been one of those weeks. You know the kind; when Murphy shows up and says, “Hey! I make the law!” The Hub was on a business trip, my parents had the nerve to be on vacation (leaving me... 17408544@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-05-14T08:42:30-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/05/07/pulling_the_plu_1.html The Binky Diaries Continued … What is the best way to break your child of the pacifier habit? I wish I knew. But, I can tell you this: 1) Pacifiers are highly addictive; possibly even more so than Words With... 17408236@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-05-07T07:28:20-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/04/23/pulling_the_plu.html I don’t really know what made me do it, but I did. I pulled the plug - with no warning - on my 2-year-old daughter’s pacifier habit. She refused to go to sleep without at least two pacifiers (one in... 17407621@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-04-23T08:05:36-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/04/17/because_thats_w.html It’s a uniquely quiet afternoon this day - the Eve of Easter. My daughter is napping and my husband and sons are out-and-about visiting family. After a chaotic family vacation - er, “trip” rather - during Spring Break week, this... 17407367@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-04-17T07:07:40-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/04/09/spring_break_is.html So, Spring Break week has come and gone. We had no plans to go veg on the beach somewhere warm, but we didn’t want to keep the kids cooped up at home for a week either. So we decided to... 17407095@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-04-09T21:24:14-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/04/02/the_tooth_fairy.html This is beginning to sound repetitive, but I had to take my kid to the dentist this week; again. There were no embarrassing moments or news-worthy stories this time, but my 2-year-old daughter did promptly march into the office and... 17406697@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-04-02T21:08:18-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/03/26/yay_for_spring.html Dear Daylight Savings Time, I despise you. You come early now, wreaking havoc on my kids’ circadian rhythms. They go to bed at “8 p.m.” and lay there, sun shining through the blinds, eyes open, wide awake for another hour.... 17406607@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-03-26T21:46:13-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/03/20/toddler_mms_sha.html My kids love to dance. When cooped up in the house for days on end (which thankfully didn’t happen much this winter); when energy levels are exceedingly high, I often crank up the satellite radio and my kids (and yes,... 17406363@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-03-20T08:03:01-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/03/12/potty_training_2.html I realize Christmas seems like it was just yesterday and that baseball season is on the near horizon, but in our house ‘tis the season of another kind: Potty Training. It’s a bitter-sweet, yet joyful, season. It’s my third -... 17405974@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-03-12T20:58:22-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/03/05/no_hablo_espano.html When my two-year-old daughter speaks, I don’t always understand what she says. It often sounds like gibberish or baby talk. I can say the same for my husband. But in his defense, he speaks three languages fluently and Spanish is... 17405509@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-03-05T21:17:18-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/02/28/dear_dentist_ve.html The adventures with our two-year-old daughter continue. Honestly, I do not remember my boys being quite so … uh … precocious. Of course, her shenanigans began while at the dentist’s office. At home, behind closed doors, she is a perfect... 17405175@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-02-28T07:23:53-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/02/21/family_is_about.html So - notoriously - my son asked one of those questions I wasn’t prepared to answer again. Nothing raunchy, nothing prefaced with “Uh, mom … (long pause)” and thankfully not, “Well so-and-so said if you eat watermelon seeds one will... 17404867@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-02-21T07:22:21-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/02/14/toddler_an_aspi.html Some kids have meltdowns. Some kids bite. Some kids are hitters and others are feisty. Then there is our two-year-old: there are no words. Ornery maybe? Curious? It seems there is a new story to tell about her every day.... 17404573@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-02-14T08:53:38-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/entries/2012/02/13/ready_or_not_a.html Ready or not, kids grow up. Before our very eyes they reach milestones: using the potty, dressing themselves (or undressing themselves at inopportune times), using a tissue instead of their finger, graduating to a big-kid bed. Our youngest is 2-years-old.... 17404522@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/mommy/ Motherhood Column 2012-02-13T07:51:48-05:00 motherhoodcolumn@yahoo.com