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Two and a half months

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

I’ve discovered the photo booth thingy on the computer this week, thanks to Lisa over at Lemon Gloria. Fun!

Two and a half months!
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With almost-three sister:
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Here I am pretending that’s a nice kiss on the cheek. Really she was licking me.
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Yeah.

40 weeks today

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

And that means we’ve arrived at the due date! Hello due date.

40 weeks!

And we are still in limbo, still going to wait a little longer, in hopes of avoiding another c section. If you have any laborious thoughts to spare, direct them this way please!

Big sister!

Some things little M. has been saying lately:

cramera
skuck (stuck)
too gark! (dark!)
ten, nine, eight, seven, six, four, five, three, two, one, emission!
goggie
thank you addy. (daddy)
Uriel for Ariel. (Little Mermaid)
too small a me / too big e me.
(just recently started saying too small instead of too mall. sob!)
marfle (marble — she loves marbles)
dan-dad (grand-dad)
niwo (milo, our cat)
that okay. (want an apple? no. that okay.)

I’ll be three, cember. (december)
[who do you want at your birthday party?]
baby sister. cousins.

[what color hair will the baby have?]
red.
[what color eyes?]
white, black, blue.
[!!!]

my baby moving. (rubbing tummy) [haha!]
baby come out, play toys.
baby come out, talka me.

(we have tried to explain, new baby won’t do those things right away…)

Sigh. She changes every day! Today was her first day of preschool for this year. She LOVED it and did not want to leave. I am glad she’ll have the excitement of preschool to help her with the big transition.

Big day!

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Warning: there may be a few too many exclamation points in the coming paragraphs. Couldn’t be helped.

Today is: Lisa’s birthday! Lisa, it’s your birthday! Happy birthday, Lisa! And it is also Lisa’s due date! Woo! Thinking contracty thoughts for you, Lisa!

And! It is also a special day for M and me — our 5th wedding anniversary! His folks, who are seriously the best possible in-laws a girl could ask for, are arriving for a weekend visit this afternoon. Tonight we’ll all go to dinner at Machiavelli (YUM) and tomorrow evening we’ll head out to the cabin.

Oh! Yes! We finally found our cabin! We first saw it on July 3rd, and took possession on the 15th. That fast! We LOVE it and we have gone out there every chance we get. Here are a few pictures from that first day of cabin ownership.

The river:

the river

The cabin (if you squint you can see my big belly!):

little cabin

The first pond, built by M & M (I forgot to bring any river shoes that day):

first pond

The tiny pool of rocks I gathered while they built the pond:

pretty rocks

We can’t wait to go back!

Lisa’s birthday song stuck in your head too? Sorry about that.

Cat out of bag

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Here she is! (She’s not really a cat.)

gb!

I love her little feet up there.
Due to come out mid-September! :) :) :)

Ninja baby

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Well, she’s not really a baby any more. She’s two! And two months! Plus some weeks! And walking and talking. She still gets a few things mixed up, in grammar and pronunciation, of course.

Pronunciation: esses at the beginnings of words somehow end up at the ends of the words. Snow is noe-s. That’s the most common one — we’ve seen a lot of snow this year — and right now I can’t think of any other examples of the moved S.

Grammar (and the reason for this post): she hasn’t completely sorted out what you and me mean, and sometimes just says it as she hears it. So if you ask her, “Want me to read you a story?” She’ll say, “Read you a story.” Or if you ask her, “Want me to carry you?” She’ll say, “Carry you.” And in fact, now when she wants to be carried, or really just to go where I am going or go where her daddy is going, then unprompted, she’ll hold out her arms and say “Muriel carry you.”

Except it doesn’t come out sounding like “Muriel carry you.” It sounds much more like “Muriel kill you.” And with the outstretched arms… it makes us laugh every time.

All part of the ninja baby training.