Ruby wasn't wasting any time today with the sunshine. Her boots and socks were off only moments after I picked her up from school this morning. Perhaps she was saluting the sun. Perhaps she was celebrating having made it through her full first morning of school in underwear with no accidents. Perhaps she just thought…… Continue reading These Toes prefer sun

//www.youtube.com/get_playerArden is progressing with the sold food. Still refusing anything that could be classified as “baby food” but happily munching away on Cheerios, mango, broccoli, porridge, grapes, pears, rice crackers, and baked potatoes. So far. It's going so so. She isn't a huge fan of food yet. But she will get there. The big struggle…… Continue reading The worst 15 seconds of video I have ever shot

To the untrained eye, this may look like most happy babies who are in the early stages of learning to eat. A high chair with a smattering of cheerios. But if we are being honest with each other, then you should know that this particular high chair is currently being used by the fifth of…… Continue reading The perils of being number three

These thoughts are muddled Here charlotte learning something from an adult who is not a parent or one of he teachers. (in this case a cousin and her husband). I think that, maybe, because in this experience charlotte was learning how to throw a frisbee from someone other than a parent, she was both freed…… Continue reading She took the disc before this one right on the chin

A friend of mine suggested that I view these as a lesson in acceptance. Acceptance of what, I’m not entirely sure. Although he’s probably right.Turns out I have some tendinitis in my right foot. After walking around a bunch on Saturday, and some more on Saturday night, it flared up. So much so, in fact,…… Continue reading

//www.youtube.com/get_playerArden ate her first 7 Cheerios today. Yes – I counted. She thoroughly enjoyed them. Or at least that is how I am choosing to interpret the volume of drool that came out of her mouth in the process. It is fascinating to me that she out and out refuses the baby food (bananas, sweet…… Continue reading Learning to chew.

I think she just passed out while she was playing.

//www.youtube.com/get_playerArden has not been too interested in baby mush so I decided to skip past it and go straight to solids. Broccoli, beware.

This is a picture of Charlotte taken just moments after she tied her own shoe for the first time. This achievement was closely followed by tying of the other shoe. She did not take her shoes off for the rest of the evening. Of course there was lots of tying and untying of the shoes…… Continue reading When left to her own devices

I cooked a lot with my mom when I was growing up. From the very early days of my memory I recall sitting on the kitchen floor with pots and pans full of water and flour playing along while something real was being prepared on the stove and countertops above me. Anyway, I believe that,…… Continue reading This smile costs you double