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Our baby girl turned 18 months old today. Her checkup got rescheduled because her doctor is on vacation this week, so I’ll post some stats in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, we have some pics and some video clips of our big girl! Haley has completely conquered walking and can almost run. She is tryingContinue reading “18 Months Old”

JT is registered for 4-year-old preschool in the fall! That’s right, three days a week. The preschool we decided on is just a little bit popular… we had to get in line at 7:00 AM for a 10:00 registration, and I got the last boys’ spot in a 4s class. Seriously. My friend Jen andContinue reading “Preschool”

This weekend I spent 16 hours at the hospital as I watched my friend lose her baby at 18 weeks gestation. As a friend said, “There are no words.” It was the most heart-wrenching thing I’ve ever been through. Our birth photographer, Sarah Ellen, came and took pictures for the family of little Herja afterContinue reading “Born Sleeping”

This is my 500th blog posting. WOW. I felt like it should be something special. You know, something memorable and wonderful and perfect. It turns out, in the past two weeks we have only had completely normal-type things happening, interspersed with some not-so-great things as well. For example, Jim and I got sick. Really sick. My amazingContinue reading “500”

I do this workout once or twice a week and it is really hard. It’s a combination of P90X and Insanity and Biggest Loser and anything else that Shira Jones comes up with. I have been going since JT was four months old, and I can honestly say that I am stronger than I’ve beenContinue reading “For Shira”

The Bouncy House place near our house closed its doors today, so we went on Friday for one last bounce. We haven’t been in at least six months (maybe that’s why they’re closing…) so Haley had a totally different experience. That is code for “crazy woman.” She went through the obstacle course and down theContinue reading “Goodbye Bounce House”

This is an assortment of little things that have been going on lately. Starting with JT’s new obsession, Trio blocks. This set came as a hand-me-down from our friends Eli and Sadie, and it has gotten a lot of use lately. There are directions to build all sorts of vehicles (you can imagine why JTContinue reading “Assorted”

Maybe you’ve heard the term already, but we’ve been in Snowpocalypse 2012. (Don’t know what that means? Check UrbanDictionary, of course.) I’ve been posting about the snow but I’m not sure you out-of-towners really know what we Puget Sounders have been going through the last few days. (Melodramatic on purpose. Promise.) I started on SaturdayContinue reading “Snowpocalypse”

JT’s goal for today was to build a snowman. The weather warmed a little and last night’s snowfall cooperated, leaving us with perfect snowman snow. Before lunch we walked to the park and came home to build our snowman. I looked over and JT was tearing branches off our Japanese maple tree for arms. Whatever.Continue reading “Snowman Day”

We’ve had a little snow the past few days. It really, really snowed while we were in church and JT was hoping we could build a snowman when we got home. There wasn’t as much snow at our house so we weren’t sure it would be enough. After nap, we went outside (in the dark)Continue reading “A Little Bit-o-Snow”