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Haley turned eight months old last week! She is doing a great job feeding herself puffs and Cheerios, has waved goodbye a couple of times, and just started giving big sloppy kisses. So sweet! It was a gorgeous day on Saturday, so we took a few pictures outside to mark her big day. Yeah, sheContinue reading “8 Months Old”

JT and Haley, like most kids, love books. I snapped this picture of JT reading to Haley a couple of mornings ago. They are snuggled in the sunshine in their pajamas.

One evening after dinner, we took a walk to our local elementary school playground and the boys played a little baseball. JT has to have baseball in his blood: Jim and my brother were both high school all stars, and my dad played well into his fifties. JT got a baseball tee, ball, and batContinue reading “Baseball”

JT got a couple of new puzzles from his older friend Eli and he loves them. One is a Thomas puzzle and it has 25 pieces. JT can do the entire thing by himself. I think that’s pretty awesome! The other puzzle is an alphabet train. This is perfect because JT knows about half ofContinue reading “Puzzles and Clocks”

JT enjoys his friend-who-is-a-girl (not girlfriend), Gracelyn, very much! We enjoy her and her family, too, so that works out well. 🙂 Gracelyn’s family came over for an indoor picnic lunch this week after we got rained out of a boat ride. JT and Gracelyn play together most weeks at workout, and they both didContinue reading “Friend-that’s-a-girl”

I bought Haley some new barrettes at the store the other day. She rides sitting up in the cart now and her eyes LIT up when she saw them. It’s so crazy to watch a little girl who is just riding along, enjoying life, and then she is screaming because she can’t hold the barretteContinue reading “Barrettes and Cheerios”

Haley and I got to go to a baby shower for two of my cousins, Cora and Rebecca. (What’s with my family? We seem to get pregnant in multiples.) They are both having boys! Cora lives far away, so she joined us via Skype. Aren’t we so cutting edge? 🙂 The group Catching up withContinue reading “Baby Shower”

Jim had to leave town for work and I had Book Club plus a baby shower, so JT went to spend the night with Grandpa and Grandma Cole. That left Haley and I with the house to ourselves for 24 hours! It was pretty fun “just us girls” and I must say that I amContinue reading “Girls’ Weekend”

Oh, my, is it just me? Or do I have the most beautiful little girl in the whole world? She was sitting in her room the other day and the sun was streaming in, and we had the house to ourselves, and I just couldn’t help but take a few pictures. Or twenty.  Sweet girlContinue reading “Pretty in Pink”

Oh no, I’m hooked! My first foray into digital scrapbooking was making a family calendar for my grandma last year for Christmas. Now that I have a new computer and PhotoShop up and running, I’ve started on Haley’s first year scrapbook. I did JT’s the paper traditional way just like the scrapbook I made ofContinue reading “Digital Scrapping”