T is for Tedious

In my spare moments when the kids are sleeping, I’m plodding my way through the bins of baby clothes and tagging them for my twin club’s fall sale.  It’s hideously tedious work. Pick up an item, write my name, a description, the size, and a price on the tag… twice.  Cap the marker so I [...]

Twelve-month stats

This morning was our 12-month well-baby appointment.  Thankfully, M was able to come with me, since it involved two shots and a finger stick (plus, you know, two wriggly babies missing their morning nap).  Both are doing well, though neither gained as much weight as I might have guessed (both were up about a pound [...]

Trip Recap, Part 4 – The Family Reunion

I swear, this is the last trip recap you’ll hear!  I know, it’s fascinating…. but I wanted to record it for posterity before I completely forget and there’s a million other things to write about.
Anyways, the final weekend of the big trip to the Midwest involved a two-hour drive to sorta-Central Illinois for my dad’s [...]

Trip Recap, Part 3 – back to Grandpa’s house

See the first parts of the story here and here.
The first week of the trip under our belts, we were back at my dad’s house for a few days.  We pretty much crammed in visitors at every opportunity.  I have a lot of family and old friends in the area, and I thought a 12-day [...]

Trip Recap, Part 1 – Grandpa’s house

[Sucky day update: the city is attempting to repair the broken sewage pipe, or at least making a good show of tearing up the street in front of my driveway. M just informed me that the city just cracked the water line instead of the sewer line, and haven't even dug in the right place [...]

Chair pictures, the first year

This is at least as much for myself, to see these chair pictures all lined up.  They’re getting harder and harder to take, so I may go to every 3 months or so from now on, but I’m glad I did as much as I did for the first year. I didn’t start taking them [...]

Birthday Countdown – Month 12

July 2008
I blink, and the summer is halfway over.  This last month, the kids have become such little people.  Though there are no clear or obvious “words,” there’s a lot of talking going on.  Different sounds, intonations, expressions.  Lots of opinions, lots of thinking and problem-solving.  Opening and closing doors, moving that pesky gate that [...]

Birthday Countdown – Month 11

June 2008
Alas, though we stayed in town for all of May, June was not the same.  Another crazy-short trip to Florida, this time without the infant carseats, but instead with the Britax and the Travelmate.  Now that they’re older, they really have no interest in sitting still for any length of time, so it was [...]

Entering phase 3

…of our Great Midwestern Adventure. (or is it phase 4? I don’t know phases…)  Tomorrow we leave the greater Chicagoland area for the middle of nowhere, Illinois (near Starved Rock, for those in the know), for my dad’s family reunion.  It’s an annual gathering, probably 50 or so people, and it’s total insanity.  My family [...]

Birthday Countdown – Month 10

May 2008
You know one really good thing about May?  We didn’t go anywhere! We stayed in MA for a whole month! Delightful.  In the meantime, Rebecca crawled everywhere, including over to Daniel to grab his toy, since he couldn’t follow her.  Both kids loved standing more than practically anything.  More teeth joined the face, so [...]