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 […]
I love this picture…Dan’s skinny fingers, his child’s hand on his neck… I love this one of him too. I know it’s bad, but we were all thirteen once, I guess. That piece of paper pinned to the curtain on the door says, “Even a kid can be courteous.” It’s a line from Pee Wee’s
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Okay, tonight… this is another DUMB story…. (it’s that round container, right in the front) As John and his family were preparing to leave, Big Jay mentioned to t.c. would he like to give Sam a dog treat? He held out the clear plastic container with the dog treats in it, and the child popped
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the dual action light sabre!! thank you! grandma and grandpa!! Tonight we and all our grown kids enjoyed dinner at a nearby restaurant–John and Dannell’s Christmas gift to us. It was lovely. It’s a lumpy transition from Christmas into 2010… and yet our wonderful old friends will be here on New Year’s Day to celebrate,
Today I talked to Alicia about this again, and she told me the reason they take this round about approach is because then the dog jumps off the bed as if it’s her own idea. (I gazed at Little b.g. asleep, long eyelashes against his cheeks, his apple red cheeks, the little pretend ears on
Tonight Dan and Alicia were talking about b.g. sleeping in the middle half the night and how that’s evolved, and another kid asked about the dog—their Sheltie. Where does she sleep then? She sleeps at the foot of the bed too, and it gets crowded. Dan said, “When we want her off the bed we
