Twelve years old, she is. Here she was like six years old. Here she is just born–that’s going back a ways. She was born round and sweet on an April morning. We were pretty glad to see her. But today, twelve. We had the big party last night, so today we had a small party–colored […]
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p.j. has turned into a complete ape since Christmas. Before Christmas, a lot of her concentration went toward the job of walking itself. Now however, she’s fluent in walking and ready to conquer the world. Starting with my purse. No, no, no, you get out of there. Babies cannot write checks. If sit down,
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Which weren’t actually taken until the second day of school, but who cares? We got McDonald’s and went to the park for lunch. Here she’s got bbq sauce in her hair. And this child loves the french fries Here they found a little stick structure left by some other kids, someone else’s fairy house maybe.
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Okay. Today, Maria and I were on the patio with this little girl, and this little boy. She was chatting and mentioned something about Kari’s barbie guy, Bob the Nudist. Bob the Nudist? Who has a barbie named Bob the NUDIST?? Yeah, he was always naked so Kari named him Bob the Nudist. He was
This afternoon, Tim came racing through the room and asked me how to spell sorry. Then a few minutes later he was back with a pen and piece of paper for me to write it on. Okay, fine. But a few hours later, in the car, I was thinking about that and asked him who
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It’s Lydia’s birthday. She used to be about the nuttiest squirrel in the house. Not anymore. Since she turned ten last year she’s become extremely civilized. She never hypes out, smarts off, or causes trouble. She’s good-natured, responsible, and calm. I mean, we knew this would happen eventually, but already??? When she was born, we
But that was quite a long time ago. I gave him a pair of luxurious down-filled mittens. They’re still in the mitten box now. We had a party tonight, of course. He loves ribs and potato salad, so he made both last night while I was working–between driving kids to basketball, he cooked. Excellent results.
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ham it up, you cuties Okay, I heard it again yesterday, a person complaining about another’s bad behavior, “She’s just doing it for attention. Ignore her.” I’ve heard this line a million times. Where did it ever even come from? It’s shaming, insulting, a put-down. No, no, no, no, no. We could stop seeing wanting
Okay. Today was a quiet day, overcast and cold. I worked a while and wandered home, grabbed a cold leftover taco from the fridge and came in here to the computer to read the news. What’s happened in the old world so far today? I clicked the mouse, so the screen turned on, and suddenly
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It’s been a quiet week, good. Here are a few pictures for fun: We have more baking to do, and frosting, and a big snowstorm is scheduled to hit tonight. Hopefully I’ll be done working this evening before the roads get bad. Then we can just be here and bake cookies all night. I guess
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