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We managed to get Anna laughing – real, honest belly laughs – today. It was so cute. Carrie and I would stick out our tongues, and Anna would stick her tongue out to mimic us. Then we started giggling…and she did too! I wish I could have grabbed the video camera, but I opted to [...]
Anna has discovered that she has hands. It’s pretty funny – she waves them in front of her face slowly and goes all cross-eyed trying to focus on them. I can almost hear her saying “Whoa! These things are so cool!”
Dear Carolyn, One month left of year three…I’ve been telling people you’re “almost four” for so long now that in my head you’re already four. Actually, in my head I suspect you’re a lot older than that even. I keep worrying that I’ve missed giving you certain opportunities (piano lessons and sports teams) and then [...]
The other night before bed, I asked Carrie for a good night kiss: Carrie: OK, but let’s have a marrying kiss! Me: A marrying kiss? What’s that? Carrie: You know, you have a marrying kiss and then you live happily ever after. …Do you think maybe I’ve let her watch one too many Disney movies? [...]
Anna went to her first fiber festival today. I don’t think she was too impressed with the fibery beasts (she slept right through seeing any of them) but she loved all the colors we saw. Some of those colors came home with us: Clockwise from 12:00 – Black Cherry Panda Bamboo yarn from Spininng Bunny, [...]
Denis did me a huge favor this afternoon and went to help set up for the wool festival the shop is participating in this weekend. So I had the kids by myself all day and all evening, and since Denis normally deals with dinner and does most of the bedtime routine, this is a big [...]
There were several babies born in Denis’ office this year – and it’s a pretty small company, so it was proportionally a lot of babies. So they decided their holiday card would be all the new babies. It was pretty funny to try to have seven babies (two of which were quite mobile) in a [...]
Vital stats: 9 weeks, 2 days old 11 lbs, 8 oz 23 inches Anna is pretty much in the 50th percentile for everything. So I was kind of surprised when the pediatrician remarked that she was a “solid” baby. But then my mom pointed out that the second child has to be solid to stand [...]
Last night we went upstairs to go to sleep and realized that the latest load of laundry was still (unfolded) on the bed. Seeing as all of the laundry baskets in the house were already full (of more clean, unfolded clothes), I did the only thing I could do. I dumped it all in the [...]
Dear Anna, You have changed so much in the past month, you’re like a completely different baby! For one thing, you now have eyebrows. Actually, they’re still so light and fine I’m probably the only one who notices the difference. Let’s see. You started waking up and noticing the world more. You smile, a lot, [...]