“special delivery”
the other day, while my mom was here, an interesting thing happened… isaac was upstairs playing by himself. i think anna was asleep (or more likely, my mom was holding/spoiling her). isaac started down the stairs with a small puzzle box in his hand, announcing he had a “special derivery” for me. he knelt down […]
siblings
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 […]
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…