the girl is seven months old on this day. she turned seven months way faster than isaac did. it’s flying by so fast. she’s super cute and fun these days. i love watching her face light up when she sees isaac. she can hear him when he comes down the stairs in the morning and […]
razzle dazzle gingerbread men.
on saturday, a massive snowstorm moved across our area, dropping down almost 3 whole inches. this raised our christmas spirit by 87%, so i offered to make cookies with isaac. he wasn’t interested in the making of cookies, but wanted to decorate more gingerbread like he had with jake over thanksgiving. rather than make gingerbread […]
christmas bird.
i used the pattern i made for the bird in anna’s mobile to make this ornament yesterday.
gingerbread boys
last week, for thanksgiving, the new york family traveled down for some festivities. we kept it pretty low key and easy. on thanksgiving day, we went out to michaels and picked up a gingerbread man decorating kit on the cheap and jake and isaac did a fantastic job of decorating them…
monkey cakery
made this today for kessler’s 1st birthday. a smash cake and accompanying cupcakes in a cute monkey theme..
turkey cupcakes…
…for isaac’s class for their thanksgiving feast. (special thanks to amanda deaton who came over to lend a decorating hand and to claire ketner who occupied the lidkids so that i could accomplish this).
mobility
well, the anna baby is 100% mobile. she was utilizing a combo belly crawl and inch worm technique for a week or so, but has developed a nice little rhythmic crawl. an efficient one. shortly after mastering (slightly obtaining?) this skill, she moved on to pulling up. onto everything. which has increased the occurrences of […]
a-n-n-a flannel letters
made these awhile back to hang in the anna baby’s room. i had been on the search for some letters for her name, but couldn’t decide what i wanted to do. i saw a tutorial for a whole alphabet of these letters that i had filed away for a rainy day. then it hit me… […]
the great sick week
last monday, isaac got a fever. two doctor visits, several vomits, lots of sleepless nights, hundreds of coughs, much whining and crying and it finally left his poor little body around saturday. here is our week in pics.