In an effort to help alleviate some of Christina’s frustrations, we have been working with her on some basic sign language for some of the things she needs to get across to us on a daily basis.  
She has had a sign for “more” for months now but, unfortunately, the one I taught her was not the […]

She took three steps, then later she took two steps, and still later she took FIVE steps!!!
Clint got to see the very first ones, too:  she was standing, holding his finger, and he slipped his finger out to go do something, which we both do all the time — but normally she just sits down […]

Thank goodness she finally has these two teeth through!!!
Poor thing has been absolutely miserable with those puffy, swollen gums, and we’re finally done with that part!  I know, I know. . . there are lots more to come.  But we’re done with THESE two, and there’s always a chance that the next ones won’t be […]

It isn’t very FAR through yet, but it has broken the gum: I felt it on my fingernail when I was putting an ice cube in her mouth!
Did I mention that Christina eats ice cubes? The other two eat ice too, but nowhere near as much as Christina does; they like to have a […]

*Sorry if this post seems clipped, but I’m trying to do about twenty things before I go to bed, and Christina seems pretty restless tonight. . . .
Took Christina shopping with me, to get a couple of last-minute presents and cake and ice cream. Got a couple of white boards while we were out, […]

Angelina is camping with her Dad and the Indian Princesses this weekend, so Alexander spent the night at Timothy’s last night. (He did that the very first time she went camping, so it’s become tradition now.) They went swimming today, and we picked him up around 6pm; he was exhausted, but said that […]

1) Christina walked, holding just my fingertips, for the first time this morning! She’s been using her push-walker for a couple of weeks now, but this is the first time she’s grabbed my hands and just taken off. She was so excited about it that she squealed!
2) We took Christina […]

Christina will eat pretty much anything we give her now.
She’s been eating bites of our food — whatever it may be — for quite some time now:  we just mash it up a bit with our fingers and pop it into her mouth and watch it disappear.  But a few days ago it occurred to […]

Christina got her first ear infection this week — just in her right ear, but still. . . .  I wish she hadn’t gotten one at all, but I guess I ought to be glad that she made it this long without one.
Last week, she ran a fever for several days — nothing hot enough […]

I took the kids with me to run some errands this afternoon, and managed to skip Christina’s nap in the process. She fell asleep while we were walking through Big Lots (in an attempt to find a clock for Alexander’s room,) and protested mightily when I tried to slip her carefully into her car […]