Today was beautiful. We hung out outside a lot.
anna
360 degrees
After many weeks of coming close, Anna has rolled over from her back to her belly, completing the 360 degree journey from belly to belly. She is still struggling with a pesky arm that originally was obstructing the final phase of the rollover and is now becoming trapped underneath her when she completes the rotation. […]
blue ridge village, round 4.
last friday, we headed out for our annual trip to banner elk, north carolina, for a little downtime in the mountains. it was a lot different this time, thanks to a little 13.5 lb addition. we didn’t get out adventuring too much and it got a little boring more quickly than i had anticipated. we […]
“How was the day?”

Derek here… While our kids are usually decent during the day (aforementioned exceptions excluded), Anna’s lack of post-midnight sleeping takes its toll on Sarah. I often ask how the day was when I get home. This evening, I realized that there is a non-verbal indicator of how the elder lidkid behaved during the day… Yep…the […]
Exersaucering

Isaac and I cleaned up the exersaucer for Anna’s first bit of exersaucering. She really liked it, despite the fact that Isaac was all over her, whacking the toys, aggressively shoving things in her face, holding her arms so she could whack toys and my personal favorite, shaking the entire exersaucer vigorously. Poor girl.
lid kid update post
since anna was born, most of my internet time has been on my phone. since i am terrible at typing on my phone, i mostly just post pictures and tweets. not many very informative blog posts. but, if you’re reading this, you probably already know that. well, i have a few minutes of actual real […]