We’ve been telling the kids, for quite some time now, that we want to take them somewhere for a weekend trip, to get away and probably to stay in a hotel.  Things being what they are, we’ve just been too busy to do it.  Well, Clint decided we’ve been talking about it long enough, and […]

Had another run-in with Effie this afternoon.
It started off fine: We got to the school to pick up the kids, and I let Christina walk around the classroom holding just my fingers; Alexander wanted to try, so I let him walk her around the room once; A few minutes later, the kids lined […]

A man knocked on our door and asked if we were interested in having our limbs trimmed. He offered a price that we couldn’t refuse, so we took him up on it. He did a nice job, so we decided to have him do the rest of the trees as well; he […]

We finally — after almost two years in this house — can say that we’ve used our basketball net. Clint bought a ball a few days ago and, since it was nice out this afternoon, moved my car out of the driveway so we could shoot some hoops. It took a little while […]

The kids have been waxing nostalgic lately, for the apartment that we lived in before we moved into our house. They’ve been reminiscing over the monthly breakfasts at the office, eating popsicles on the curb, and playing hide-and-seek outside. They’ve also been asking, for weeks, if we could go play on that playground […]

This being Angelina’s new way of asking if Christina’s doing something cute. Chances are, yes, yes she is:

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Also in the cute-ing vein, I realize I haven’t mentioned how Christina apparently enjoys sneezing, since every time she sneezes — and I mean almost every […]

I was talking to Carole tonight as she was rocking Christina back and forth, standing in front of her as she was telling me something. It wasn’t till she was done that I realized I was rocking back and forth with her, even though I was standing a couple of feet away from her […]

And rest.

Christina has both!
Hemangiomas are vascular birthmarks—abnormal clusters of blood vessels beneath the surface of the skin. Nearly one third of babies are born with light pink patches at the napes of their necks, commonly referred to as stork bites. Others have a splash of pink in the middle of their foreheads or eyelids, […]

Yes, three weeks to the day after she left the water, she went back into it for the first time. And overall, she really didn’t like it. No gnashing of teeth, since she’s all gums at this point, but plenty of wailing. Surprised me a bit, actually, considering she spent nine months in […]