3 Ginger Snaps

So many trucks!

This is Ruby playing on the stool in our kitchen. Before I was able toget my phone out and take a picture she’d been previously standingatop the stool. A discussion about safety ensued. As you mightimagine, ruby and I had different opinions as to what exactly was safeto do on top of the stool. Ruby…… Continue reading Testing testing 1, 2, 2 and a half

//www.youtube.com/get_playerEqually good at your baptism, or the day after.

This may look like a fairly average picture of our family in the car. It’s not. Today, at 3:35pm, Hil and I realized that Charlotte was 5mims late for a birthday party that started at 3:30pm. We’d had a pretty busy day to that point, so we are going to be forgiving of ourselves on…… Continue reading Rare occurrence

I think we might be cracking through Arden's resistance to food. She's eating lots of stuff now. Provided she is allowed to feed herself!

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