This is our friends’ middle child. He’s an undemanding person, for the most part. He chills nicely, goes with the flow. Yeah, well the poor kid jumped off the dock and landed his foot on something sharp. He cut it nicely, a filet through all the layers of skin. E.R. Here we come. (This is […]
Tonight, feeling deep in winter, I was looking at pictures from last summer. Friends came for a week in July, and it was hot, and their kids are so beautiful, so dear to my heart. Their mama and I have been friends for a good ten years now, but this is what I noticed in
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He’s growing, but he’s still pretty tiny. Thursday Alicia brought the kids over for the afternoon, get b.g. out of the house, change of scenery. She’s easy company, and we hung out, watched kids, ate lunch. She nursed the baby, and we all got to hold him a lot. Train tracks were built. Tim delighted
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It was a fine Tuesday. Here she’s walking on that pretend laptop she loves. She works on that laptop, does a lot of typing and talking. I see that doll corner in this picture though. We should deal with that. Too much stuff, and nobody plays dolls anyway. It was 54 degrees here today–no kidding,
We were on our way to Mexico. One day while we were there, cruise ships came in. I was amazed by how enormous they are. This is outside a restaurant where the food was delicious. Wow, how fast a month has gone by, and what a packed month it was. Now we’ve sailed into January,
Was gorgeous. Today it was almost 50 degrees. How is that possible? We babysat this guy, which doesn’t happen all that often and it was a blast. We babysat this girl too, and that brand new baby came over to play. Well, b.g. played. The little brother mostly slept. And now he’s gone home, and
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This has been one of the biggest surprises in my life, the way these grandchildren make me feel. Before t.c. was born, I knew I’d love him, but with an eighteen month old of my own, I wasn’t really in a grandma place–though John and Dannell were definitely ready to be parents. Well, he was
John called early yesterday morning to ask if he could drop off this guy to get watched for the day. Their regular sitter has some sort of hideous, frightening illness they’d like to avoid. Obviously, the answer was YES! We watched The Aristocats, and baked cookies. Oh gosh, a pretty perfect January Tuesday, it was.
Here he is, in a picture taken by his parents. We love you, Buddy. love, Grandma and everyone
She turns twelve on Tuesday, so today we had dinner and cake to celebrate her and the New Year. Here’s Joe, cuddling Kirsten’s dog and teasing Maria. Okay, somehow we have to clear a spot on this table for the birthday cake. Aww, there’s our girl. Oh, and this man wants to scoop ice cream!
