I’m sharing photos from the morning ceremony and evening reception we held for our Miracle Baby Benjimin’s One-Year Birthday (Vietnamese Thôi Nôi). Learn more about this significant milestone and a ritual held to mark it.

I’m sharing about how we personalized our baby’s One Year Birthday Milestone! If a Cake Smash doesn’t really make sense for your family, consider meaningful alternatives. For us that was a Noodle Pull!!

We’ve travelled to 20+ destinations with our baby before he even turned 1.5 years old! It is possible to maintain the lifestyle you loved after your new love joins the family, if it’s a priority for you. Read, use and share my Tips for Travelling with your Baby.

Our baby wore a head shape corrective helmet for six months and it fixed his Flat Head Syndrome. In this post I share all about flat head, prevention, helmets and other tips and information that parents should find useful.

2023—while incredible in an immeasurable number of ways—was also the hardest year ever. I don’t know if people know this but being a mom is hard (lol). In this post I reflect on my struggles as a new mom in 2023.

Check out my New Parent Gift Guide with suggestions for great giift ideas based on what we got / bought / used and loved for our baby Benjimin.

Sharing a “New Parent Checklist” with ‘stuff’ we found helpful for us in those early newborn days, that we think would be helpful for new-parents-to-be!

I hope these pieces of advice and reflection on a few months of parenthood help other new parents!