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The other night at dinner, JT decided to pretend his spoon was an airplane and flew his cuban beef picadillo and rice into his mouth. Wonder where he got that idea?

Some miscellaneous additions for the week (as well as some Flip Clips)… First, Haley usually falls asleep with her binky and spits it out at some point. Sometimes it gets stuck in her swaddle blanket and rests on her nose. How does she sleep like this? On Jim’s work days, he gets up around noonContinue reading “Miscellaneous”

We have had a beautiful couple of fall days lately. We had a big windstorm so all of the leaves came off the trees, but then we had two days of dry sunshine. You could walk the neighborhood and see at least one family out making piles and taking pictures. Of course, we did too!Continue reading “Falling in”

JT, Haley, and I met our friends Carrie and Emi at 3-2-1 Bounce for some morning playtime this week. On the way there, we got hit in our Mazda… that’s another story. I’ll blog about that soon. Anyway, we are all fine and so we continued on to our destination. We got there half anContinue reading “Bouncy House”

I’ve started calling Haley “Haley Bean.” I don’t know why. Maybe because it rhymes with “Haley Keene,” or maybe because she is such a little bean. She is now about the same size JT was when he was a week old. Not that we’re comparing, it’s just so funny how little she is to us.Continue reading “My Little Bean”

I don’t love Halloween. I just don’t get it. I don’t get all excited to dress up and ask people to give me candy. I do, however, love pumpkins – patches, carving, seeds, the whole thing. Soooooo this weekend the Skagens came over and we had dinner and carved pumpkins. Sarah, Aly, and Cole decidingContinue reading “Hallowhat?”

JT has adopted a few more household tasks lately. He enjoyed scrubbing the toilets; mostly I think this is because he loves playing in water. Loading the dishwasher was going well (he did everything you see here), and he was even rinsing the dishes off for me. But then we hit a snag. He putContinue reading “More Chores”

Last week, Jim and I had a date day! We were planning on skiing but it was much too foggy on the lake. But we still got to ride the Harley to lunch… …and saw a weekday matinee movie (The Social Network) where we had a lot of trouble finding seats… …and rode home againContinue reading “Date Day”

I have been accused of the common second-time-parent sin: not taking as many pictures of your second child. I have to argue that this is just not true… at the very least, it is hard to tell. First, I have a much better camera, so I can take fewer pictures and get one that IContinue reading “Equality”

It’s fun that JT is finally old enough to have a conversation. This first Flip Clip sounds more like a quiz than a dialogue, but that’s because it’s really hard to get an impromptu talk on film. (The names he says are Asher, Abby, Jen, Katie, Brady, and Shira. I laughed when he said “maybeContinue reading “Conversations”