Here she is, in a very pretty picture Heidi took, perfect little lips, perfect little toes. Here’s Heidi making the most of her maternity leave, sacked out in the recliner in the living room, p.j. off playing Barbies with Julia, far enough away so we don’t have to overhear their arguing. Here’s my girl hugging […]
Heidi and Maria, 1994 This woman has been loving babies since she was a little girl, and she’s always been good at it. When she was in charge, everyone was safe. She could take care of things, and she did. Plenty of times she even lined me up. Usually I was so grateful for the
p.j. wanted to give her little sister a bath. Heidi was willing, but dang, so tired. And she knew I’d love to do it. So we did. She was shampooed and is just so perfect and sweet. Julia took the pictures. p.j. had a dining room chair pushed up beside me to help. And
Yes, she was, born this morning. We didn’t know at the time p.j. went to preschool that her sister was already born. She was excited because the class was walking to the library. The library! Good grief. We picked her up from school and drove downtown to where her sister was waiting to meet her.
The caterpillar hatched. He was noticed late at night, so he was placed outside in the morning. We weren’t sure if he was okay or not. We hope so. The flower pots were planted, most of them anyway. Today I dragged the man to the garden store again and we brought home two kinds of
Today was the fourth birthday party and it was fantastic. There’s a whole mob of people who love this child, and they filled the house and even the yard. It was 40+ degrees out, and sun shining. This is John and Dannell’s baby, growing fast, so cuddly and funny. She is starting to smile, though
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Alicia took this one too and it took about ten photos to get one of them all somewhat looking forward. They are a wild, bouncy bunch. love always, GRANDMA
I came across this on Instagram tonight. That’s p.j. in the middle, her dad on the right, his little brother–her uncle on the left. (The uncle has been Jay’s trusty plumbing side-kick the last few weeks. Jay wishes he had enough work to keep him helping every day. He’s wiry and capable, has a good
The first picture is two girls who picked out dresses at Costco yesterday. We roamed around, ate samples, had fun. The picture below is Desi’s bearded dragon Little Jay bought her for her birthday. We went over there to see him today, and is he ever cool–and very, very adorable. Heidi asked this morning
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We got it done, baked eight batches of sugar cookies. Maria rolled dough and cut. I ran the oven. It was a fairly big mess, but we expected that and it wasn’t a big deal. Okay, okay, okay. The first rule of cooky decorating is NO LICKING ANYTHING. Not the bottles of sprinkles, not your
