Hands off {literally}
Early yesterday morning the Spouse noticed the Baby was making a strange face. Knowing that her favorite pastime is grazing on foreign objects, he swiped his finger through her mouth and recovered the tiny hand you see below:
Early yesterday morning the Spouse noticed the Baby was making a strange face. Knowing that her favorite pastime is grazing on foreign objects, he swiped his finger through her mouth and recovered the tiny hand you see below:
This is a repost from three years ago. But, I could just as well have written it this morning. Sometimes we can look back at where we were and be disappointed that we haven’t overcome more of our own weaknesses. But, the great beauty of Easter is that even though we can’t get it right,…
Ever since the Baby was born back in October, we have been completely inconsistent with our church attendance. In fact, with the exception of Christmas Eve, I haven’t been to church since early fall. The Spouse has taken the “big” girls to our church on the Sunday mornings when we could pull that off over…
Last night I told the Preschooler to wait for me downstairs while I got the Kindergartener tucked in and settled into bed. Approximately two minutes later I came back downstairs and discovered this: Yes. Soundly asleep on the stairs. And, this is now my goal for the summer: to stay outdoors enough and to play…
It’s amazing to watch (and listen) as babies learn to talk, and then as toddlers learn to speak in short sentences… and then even in whole paragraphs. Language development is truly incredible. We go from glee over hearing a baby say “da-da” or “ma-ma” (and why does “da-da” always come first?) to having full-blown conversations…
The girls just came rushing into the room with this report: “Mommy! There’s toilet paper all over the bathroom and we didn’t do it!” “Yeah! We didn’t do it!” So, I went and surveyed the scene… And, when the primary suspect was located nearby… She was caught busily attempting to destroy the evidence by ingestion. The…
The Toddler has been saying a few things lately that have totally stumped us. And, few things are as frustrating to her {or me!} as those times when we don’t understand what she’s trying to communicate. Last week she started asking in the car, “Where’s Who? Where’s Who?” Well, as you can imagine, I had…
I love her expression! "What? Who me? What are you talking about?"
She is so cute!