anna
nature vs. nurture…
do my kids get their dislike of sleep from a gene that derek and/or i am carrying? or do i simply make my kids hate sleep? perhaps i’m just so fun that they can’t stand to miss out on just one minute of it… all kidding aside, we’re having a pretty tough couple of days […]
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 […]