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During the summer, Brian decided that he would start reading to Samantha (and inadvertently, Ellie) from a big book. We were collecting points during the library’s summer reading program. A big book would mean more points, right? Brian went rummaging through my boxes of children’s fiction (yes, still boxed up from the …
Read more →Weekend (or longer) project. Oh yeah, and Brian is going out of town for 4 days next week.
Read more →We have plenty of room in our new house. We each have our own space and own bed, but that doesn’t mean a soon-to-be-4 year old can’t use her imagination. I bought 2 booster seats recently (online of course) so we had a few big boxes laying around. One of them got 2 eye holes cut out and is used as a box monster. One …
Read more →I’m behind on getting news out about Ellie. Typical, I know. Ellie had her 15 month check up a few weeks ago. She’s a whoppin 19 lbs, which puts her in the 3rd percentile. However, she’s 31″ tall which is about the 95th percentile. She’s a regular Long Tall Sally. I still have her turned rear-facing in the car, but …
Read more →I can feel the ever so slight easing of heat around here. We’ve had glimpses of some nice fall weather, so you know summer is wrapping up. Here are some pictures from our summer. Swimming at MamaLinda’s Walking in the rain Trying on a Burger King crown Visiting the McWane Center Celebrating a 90th birthday
Read more →To say that Samantha is excited about school is an understatement. She started at “big girl” school today. She was eager to get out of the car during carpool and had to be prompted to turn around and wave goodbye to me. It’s a good thing I got my hug and kiss before then! When I picked her up, she told me the things …
Read more →I think we’re approaching the end of an era. The “Brown Baby” era. Brown Baby has gone everywhere with us for years. He’s in all of our pictures, he’s been a staple for trying new things, he’s part of our family. For a while, Sam changed his name to “Bay.” And I think he‘s now a she. I bought a substitute (he needs to …
Read more →Samantha’s school hasn’t started yet, but she seems to be very excited about it. (Not quite as excited as she is every Thursday when it’s time for gymnastics. Whoa boy. She loves it.) The other night when I was putting her to bed, we were talking about school. I mentioned that we were going to meet her teacher next …
Read more →Tonight, on the way to visit Ellie’s new teachers, we were talking about letters. Samantha said “b and d is for Bandaid. Did you hear the difference? B is for Ban. D is for Daid!”
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