warning. lots of cute pics on the way. but, first. some brutal honesty. things have been difficult around here. we have been having a really hard time with isaac and anna for the last few months. we hoped that it was just some tension because the baby was on the way. and we had hoped […]
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new york grands come to town.
at 2am, on the day after christmas, my mom, stepdad and brother rolled into town. my mom quickly scooped up hazel and crashed on the couch. and the whirlwind crazy week began… (and i took way too few pictures. thankfully, derek took some.) jake was quickly enlisted by isaac to help with lego construction. a […]
christmas day. 2013.
(note: this is the first of a bunch of posts i plan on making today.) this christmas was a little bit crazy. we have a newborn. so we kept it all low key. but first things first. the presents. pics aren’t that great. we need a fancy sports lens to get all the fast paced […]
gingerbread houses.
on christmas eve eve day (december 23rd), i sent derek out to run a few errands. and decided we needed to do gingerbread houses with the kids. he scored them on superduper clearance, which was awesome. anna picked out a hello kitty house. and ike picked a willy wonka house with a ridiculous amount of […]
oh you know, just some random pics…
when we found ourselves with an extra weekend before hazel arrived, we tried to do some fun things with the kids… like christmas shaped pancakes with some sprinkles… check out anna’s sweet pigtails… the wink of approval… after the appointment where we scheduled the induction of a super late hazel, i returned home to find […]
cookie mayhem. 2013 edition.
ok. so, knowing hazel was making an early december arrival, i knew i wouldn’t be making a bunch of christmas cookies, as i have in years past. but, i definitely wanted to make cut out cookies with the kids, because that’s super fun, and i didn’t want hazel to steal all of the christmas thunder… […]
clean baby.
hazel had her first bath yesterday. well. aside from the sponge bath in the hospital from our nurse friend, angela. but this one would be way better, immersed in the warm water. while the rest of the family looked on… wet babies are slippery little suckers. fresh clean baby:
hazel grace
on tuesday, december 10th, we welcomed this little bundle of apprehensive joy into the world: we are calling her hazel grace. and she was 21 inches long and 7 lbs 15 oz. and was born at 11:20 am. i’ll post more details later, about how the whole thing actually went down. but, for now, here’s […]
the week in (very few) pictures.
(i’m still pregnant. and bags are packed. and things are mostly clean. and so on. so, i am blogging.) we had thanksgiving at derek’s sister’s house. here’s the kidz table. it was very giggly. the cousins exchanged gifts (mostly because we got them a lego star wars advent calendar and we don’t have the family […]