We had a party. This little boy is so pretty sometimes it almost hurts my eyes. Squirrel-fest! Actually they are fighting so much less these days, and it’s kind of nice. That guy in the Angry Birds hat turned seven this week. Jimmy turned sixteen. Heather created and painted that beautiful gift. She turned […]
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Here he is little and tiny. This is an old James story: He was born weighing ten pounds–nice sized baby. But then it took him six full weeks to gain back his birth weight. I was freaking out. Already at a week old I took him to our chiropractor and told him how he’d nurse,
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This was Friday night after we’d been to The Children’s Museum. They were tired, and a bit unenthusiastic. Tim asked how long it was. I told him two hours. “How long is THAT?” “Well, like church times two. Like church twice.” He rolled his eyes and threw himself back in the chair. But it was
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This was something Heidi wanted to do on her day off, and Julia’s been asking to go here for months. Alicia was game, and Dan was even also. This is the Our World section where they have a neighborhood, including a bus, a clinic, a sound stage, an art museum, restaurant, grocery store, and post
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Today she’s two and Heidi took the day off and invited us to lunch to celebrate. The kids picked out a couple of her gifts for today–some are saved for the other party Saturday night. These are the Hello Kitty sandals. They are being worn with socks, yes–Santa socks, specifically She dresses herself in
Big, little. I don’t even know what to say about you and all the happiness you’ve brought us. There’s never been anyone in the whole world quite like you. Seven years of loving you–is that possible it’s been only seven years? It pretty much feels like we’ve always known you, like
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James told the kids they could use his old camera. They brought it a few days ago and wanted to download the pictures from it, so I helped them. The biggest problem was finding the cord. There were some fun pictures on there. Those Barbies are just weird. He looks like such a baby here
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These are pictures of yesterday, where a bad mood began to be overcome. The first step was to make a pot of minestrone for lunch. This is something Lori used to make, and thinking about her and eating minestrone helped. Then in the evening, we went over to Dan and Alicia’s to see the
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Yes it is, and Monday I removed all evidence of February and dragged out the Easter decorations. This little funny trinket is something Pam gave us many years ago. I removed it from the mad clutches of Miss p.j. and put it in a higher place. By some miracle it may be the only trinket
Old friends came for supper last night. We met these people almost thirty years ago through strange circumstances. They adopted a dog we had stolen from the neighbors. David with Thor and Josie Normally we are not thieves or dognappers, but this dog was in trouble. The neighbor kids and ours played together and on
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