You can’t really see it yet, unless you happen to be standing in just the right spot, at just the right time, and she happens to open her mouth without sticking out her tongue — but you sure can feel it with the tip of your finger!
I was fixing my chicken salad sandwich for lunch […]

is finally up!
(I’m sure it could stand to be edited some more, but it’s up!)

Somehow neither of us has reported perhaps the biggest milestone Christina’s crossed yet. As of Friday, Dec. 28, she’s crawling. She’s known all the moves for a week or two, but just couldn’t seem to put them all together. And then she did. No more belly flops, unless she wants to […]

Christina’s been very much a mommy’s girl for several weeks. She’d give me a cute smile when she saw me in the morning, or after a work, but there wouldn’t be a twisting around to find me, or crying if she couldn’t get to me. Perfectly understandable, since she doesn’t spend nearly the […]

It’s the irony and somewhat curse of journaling that the events and periods most worthy of recording leave little time for the journal writing.
Carole will no doubt fill in the details (and photos) at length later, but so far this week, we took the kids for breakfast and to the Alliance Air Show, followed by […]

Well, she can say “dada,” anyway. . . . And we have videographic evidence!
If I’d been a bit quicker to grab the camera, we’d have quite a bit more — she babbled a whole string of dada’s just a couple of minutes before this video, but I was too entranced to do anything more […]

Angelina was sick all last week: the strep test that they did in the doctor’s office came back negative, but the backup culture that they sent to the lab came back positive; of course, they didn’t tell us that until we were at the school this morning, and just about to leave — Angelina was […]

Angelina was home sick again today, with a voice in inverse proportion to her energy; she was moving around, playing with all sorts of things, wanting us to watch her do stuff, even as her croaky voice became ever froggier.
I kept working on Curt’s drawing for Bruce Gomez, while Carole dealt with the lawyer handling […]

Kids woke us up around 7:00 a.m. I was still sleepy and fell right back off, so apparently Carole got them their breakfasts. They watched PBS kids shows and Carole did computer stuff. I got up around 8:30, I think, and after some breakfast played with the kids for an hour or […]

In the last few days Christina’s started putting two and two together, or at least one and one: If you wiggle her foot, she’ll look down at the foot you’re holding. So she’s obviously starting to be able to locate areas of sensation. I’d say “Smart baby,” but I’m fairly certain that’s a […]