Yeah, this one, this little cute one… who emerged wound so many times in her cord that her dad had to untangle her… whose first words were: “No!” “Mine!” and “Stuck!” kari, and her brother dan, on her birthday …the one who has been charming us and cracking us up for years, turned ten years […]
Here we have the kids coloring eggs. The kit had only three colors. What the heck? They usually have a whole bunch, like ten. But, you know? With three it worked just as well and it was less of a mess. We did eighteen eggs and everyone was happy. And my mom took Lydia birthday
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We used to call this guy Baby Jay. Then it evolved to Little Jay, and we still call him that, even though he’s taller than his dad. This week he took his placement test for college in the fall, and graduation is a few weeks away. His whole childhood is over. How could this HAPPEN?
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We’re still doing birthday. Here is James and his first cake, from his actual birthday-day. I tried to take a picture of him blowing out the candles, but he did it so dang fast, all I got was smoke and his hip. Durn kid. Look at Julia plugging her nose. This is the next day
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Tonight was the most magnificent birthday party. Julia kept relentlessly asking us if it was time to go, starting as soon as she woke up. The party wasn’t until 5, so we had this conversation maybe…twenty times? (I never screamed. I did say to go away once.) Anyway, my parents and my sister and her
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This guy turned a year old yesterday, so we spent the afternoon at his birthday party. Here he was a year ago. something about that fragile little hand under his chin just gets me by the heart (there’s his very brave mother in the background. she’d rather not appear without makeup. i understand.) Here he
