Nursery Rhymes and Fun Times

For Fridays, I thought it would be fun to talk about some of my favorite black and white books that I've read with my babies. I Kissed...

You can easily make your own black/white patterns or mobile: Use a black marker to draw patterns on a sheet of white paper. You can do check...

One of the things I have done with both of my children as newborns was to do some visual stimulation activities. What is visual stimulati...

A baby can begin to recognize and focus on objects, especially familiar ones. The more your baby sees, the more he will want to look around ...

At eight weeks old, we' finally enjoyed Gracie's first real smile. Babies typically smile sometime in the first couple months. It...

Sometime during the first month or so, babies begin to realize that they can make things happen! Although your little one has a short attent...

I'm learning that it's important to provide a stimulating environment for a newborn. One way to do this is by trying to stimulate th...

A good activity for a newborn baby is simply to swaddle your child in a blanket and snuggle! My children enjoyed being swaddled up tightly t...

Now that we have a baby in the house, I've been refreshing myself on infant development. It's helpful to know what some milestones a...

What can I do with my newborn that is educational? After all, they just eat, sleep, and fill their diapers all day, right?  Playing educatio...