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Carrie is rapidly becoming more and more mobile, and summer is coming and with it opportunities to stand outside. On the ground. Where there’s dirt. So, I thought I’d look into getting her some shoes. (Not that I have anything against dirt, but her choices are barefoot or shoes. No socks in the dirt, please.) [...]
Dear Carolyn, I can’t believe you’re already six months old. It feels like we just brought you home yesterday. Then again, it feels like you’ve been part of our lives forever. You’ve learned how to roll your way around – you even do little baby rolling k-turns to get to things you want. Another new [...]
Hallelujah! I can see the floor! Well, at least part of it, in my craft room. It helped a lot that I took out a bunch of stuff that literally just got shoved in there while we were cleaning out Carrie’s room, baby-proofing the living room, frantically tidying for company, and so on. There’s actually [...]
Sweet potatoes weren’t such a big hit tonight. Although, once I mixed them with some rice cereal and milk Carrie was a little more receptive. Maybe they’re just too strong a flavor for her little taste buds? It wasn’t a total rejection, I just think she was shocked at the new taste. And maybe it [...]
Carseat, that is. Carrie’s outgrowing her infant carrier, and even if she weren’t I really can’t tote her around in it anymore because the seat plus the baby weighs easily 30 pounds. Carrying that in one hand, around knee level, just isn’t all that great for my back! Since I’ve taken to leaving the seat [...]
(Warning: this rant really has nothing to do with anyone who reads this blog, and it’s probably not even worth reading. Heck, it’s probably not even worth posting, but I wrote it and this is my journal. So there.) There are times when I just need to take a step back, take a few breaths, [...]
We introduced Carrie to pears yesterday. (Carrie, meet Pears. Pears, meet Carrie.) I think it would be fair to say that she absolutely loves them. This afternoon, I mixed two tablespoons of pears with a tablespoon and a half of rice cereal and maybe an ounce of milk. I totally expected to toss half of [...]
Carolyn’s music library is pretty big already – she has three Baby Einstein CDs, a Veggie Tales CD, two lullaby CDs given to her by the cast of Anything Goes, and two more lullaby CDs from my parents. One of the CDs from my parents, The Planet Sleeps is absolutely amazing. We play it every [...]
This morning as I was getting Carrie dressed, she rolled over on the changing table (yes, I had a hand on her, and no she didn’t fall). Then, to my absolute amazement, she pushed up on her hands and knees and started rocking back and forth. She gave me this huge grin, like she was [...]
I’m feeling rather quiet lately. I don’t have rehearsals to take up my evenings anymore so I have a lot more time – but I’ve been wasting it on the computer all week! I need to remember what to do with my life without a musical to rehearse. Especially now that Carrie’s usually asleep by [...]