Kate’s favorite dress right now is M’s old girl scout t-shirt.
Charm and decorum are things we encourage and actively cultivate around here.
I have no idea how she took this, but I like it.
Archive for June, 2009
Updates for the Family
Posted in Mama Journals, Photos for Grandparents on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A Wee Bairn No More
Posted in On-Line Scrapbook, Photos for Grandparents on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
He’s …
Mr. Kissilicious, Mr. Snugglicious, Sir Poopsalot, My Growly Bear
Photos by Kate.
The Backyard
Posted in Fixer Upper on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the winter, we had our backyard levelled.
This is what our backyard looks like right now (one tree).
Rome’s sister was trained as an architect and put together this plan for us. We like it so we’re going for it.
Looking at the plan, I figured we were on a 3-5 year plan for filling this in. [...]
Nursing and My Polka Dotted Son
Posted in Children on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kate is nursing Daisy Duck. Oh Sweet Cheeks, you do your mama proud.
Oliver gets one to three bites a day right now. I’m going to back off of the bananas for a bit and see if I can sneak garlic into his food. The poor guy is almost polka dotted.
My Little Tomato
Posted in Parenting on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is this tomato staking? Kate thought it was totally cool that Armstrong had pink tomato cages and promptly tried them on. If only she knew!
It’s a Good Day
Posted in Bilingualism, Educating the Whippersnappers on June 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My husband is reading Winnie-the-Pooh to Kate in russian while she takes her bath.
It’s a good day.
The Following Post is Not About What You Think
Posted in Children, Parenting on June 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It used to be “p0rn” and “hot p0rn”.
We would drive by Target where Kate clearly remembers getting the slushy-popcorn special and she would yell out, “Buy p0rn!”; She’ll never know how she made us laugh.
Yesterday it became “pap0rn”.
Today it is “papap0rn”. And I know that soon she’ll get it right and say, “popcorn”.
While sometimes we [...]
