one of the pictures in the “anna’s first bath” collection reminded me of one of the pictures from isaac’s first bath. i had to search long and hard for it, since i’ve organized and reorganized our photo collection a number of times (do i sort by age, year, event, etc??)… anyhooo… here’s the side by […]
lid kid everyday life
first bath

anna had her first bath, yesterday, while new gramma was here to help out. after the initial shock of being immersed in water for the first time, she rather enjoyed herself… naked and ready: getting scrubbed down: pondering: drying off:
retraction
a few posts back, i made anna out to be a complete opposite to our sweet boy isaac. well, here it is a few days (weeks, even?) later and i’d like to retract some of that information… isaac and anna are very very very similar. the main difference is that isaac cried all the time […]
just the three of us…
this morning, we put new gramma on a plane headed back to buffalo, ny (via newark, nj)and returned to our “normal” life. we haven’t settled in enough to call it normal, but it is our new normal, i suppose. huh? anyhooo…while she was here, my battery in my laptop was mostly dead, because she’s an […]
first park trip

yesterday, we met the mielke’s at the park for anna’s first trip. she slept through most of it. isaac and luke played in some imaginary land that only they have access to. it was good to get out of the house… here’s a shot of anna hanging with abigail…
kristin boone does it again…

kristin boone came over to take some pics of the girl last week. of course, she did a marvelous job.
7 years of marriage deserves…

towels! last year, we went to hilton head island for a sweet long weekend beach trip. this year, well, we had a baby a week before our anniversary, so we knew we weren’t going to go on any fantastic voyages… so, instead we splurged on towels… our old towels were from when we got married […]