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:
The First Grader has been learning about outer space in school this week. And, this is a great review for me because astronomy has never been one of my strong suits. But, after hearing what all she’s learned so far, I’m afraid she may take after her mother when it comes to this subject. The…
Sweet Toddler, It has been exactly two years since you joined our family. Since then, you’ve added more energy, personality, and joy to our mix than we knew possible. You still don’t have a baby book or any photo albums chronicling your first holidays or vacations. And, honestly, this is largely your fault. You are…
I need to preface this post by explaining that both girls are currently fascinated by baby pictures of themselves and photo albums from our wedding. It’s at least a once daily ritual that we pore over several small albums that we keep in a bookshelf in the den and discuss who’s who and what’s going…
This weekend we decided to give the Baby her first taste of solid food… if you can call rice cereal mixed with water “real” food. At first, she was confused about what exactly we wanted her to do with the foreign substance we had put in her mouth… But, being a cooperative, trusting sort of…
I wish I could say that I have treated this week as the Holy Week that it is. But, that would be far from true. Instead, I’ve been more impatient and short-tempered than usual… in large part because the girls have been more at each other than ever before. I’ve yelled more than I’d like…
It’s always entertaining to see an old toy take on a new life as it’s discovered or rediscovered by a child. We’ve had this little piano for several years, but the girls have grown disinterested in it. However, the Baby recently found it in a neglected corner of the playroom, and she delights herself to…
I love her expression! "What? Who me? What are you talking about?"
She is so cute!