anna
ghetto deck pool

i commissioned derek to purchase a $10 blue plastic wading pool from walmart for our deck. we’re high class now. isaac doesn’t really like full all out swimming, so it’s pretty much perfect for us. i’m not sure how many more things we can cram on the deck. we currently have a pool, a sand/water […]
one month
anna is one month old today. it’s gone by fairly quickly, i suppose. more quickly at first than it’s going now. she’s getting a little tougher. a little more needy. and a little less likely to sleep. it’s definitely challenging here and there. (like right now, that she’s awakening from a nap way way way […]
anna’s first big adventure

with beautiful weather in the forecast for the day, and a mom and boy itching to get out of the house, we decided to head to the natural science center in greensboro. we packed up the entire contents of our house (it felt like) and rolled on down the road… the springy teeter-totter like contraption.water […]
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 […]