Late September and Early October… That last 100 degree hurrah – the only time our kids have played in a sprinkler (boo for droughts, don’t tell San Jose Water). And here’s Whitney, modeling the latest in safety-fashion – the Tile necklace. It’s one of the steps we’ve taken addressing the bolting problem. Of course, we haven’t had to use it since we’ve gotten it…in...
Leslie turned one today! From discovery and anticipation, through birth, and now this first trip around the sun this little sprout has been such a blessing. She’s almost walking (just a few steps here and there), says mama and dada and signs more. She loves chasing her siblings and laughing at them, giving kisses, flipping through book pages, everything active, pen and paper, eating...
We’ve been cycling through a series of celebration and survival modes the past two (and a half?) months…and I have a lot of catching up to do. If you were wondering where your Christmas card was I’m sorry, we didn’t get one out this year. But I LOVE getting all the cards and catching up and seeing snapshots of people’s lives. Thanks to all...
We recently returned from our inaugural Disney family adventure….and now we study the Disney map at breakfast every morning. “Mom – what’s the scary parts in Indiana Jones?” “Why didn’t we go on Yeti Mountain?” Seriously, though, while totally exhausting on my end with baby back on an every-three-hour feeding schedule, Disney did not disappoint – it was every bit as magical and as...
Within the first few days of bringing our first child home (Whitney), we were imagining her future and what she might enjoy in life and the idea of parades came up. We took her on her first parade with just us, around the block in her stroller with a balloon and some John Phillip Sousa tromboning from a phone. Every year Whitney has had...
Even with stockings and presents and merriment, when I was putting away Christmas Dylan exclaimed “But Mom, Christmas isn’t over, Santa didn’t come!” I’m not sure what he was expecting – perhaps to have Santa over for dinner? We might need to be a little more clear next year about things….guess that means Tyler and I have to figure out our plans before then! Cousins....
I have some catching up to do here…on all fronts. But I’ll start with the most significant, and most recent… Our world has been rocked this week by the passing of Tyler’s brother, Nick, after a long endurance run with lymphoma. His health started declining quickly after a most recent round of chemo challenged his already weak body. We got “the call” over the...
Summer of 2011. We were shocked. Nick’s such a strong and healthy guy, and just the most considerate person. And he’s so young…cancer? No way. I’ve mentioned my brother-in-law a few times on this blog (visiting last June, family holiday, Valentine’s love, current road trip). My husband’s family is generally rather quiet and private, so the idea of sharing health information and other personal...
I made a lightning trip home to San Jose, then to LA for my cousin’s wedding, and back to Denver this weekend. I was home long enough to pick up my French Press and glean a bucket of produce from the garden to drop at the neighbor’s. I caught up with my sister’s crazy full life over pedicures. And I stayed back in my...
This weekend we went to Uncle Ron’s car show up in Loveland. We drove through a crazy thunderstorm to get there but shortly after we arrived the sun came out and proud car owners were squeegeeing off their prized beauties. Dylan’s word of the day was “awesome” … “Wow! look at that awesome blue car…and over there, another awesome car, it’s green and black!”...
Whitney is four! Last Saturday we celebrated with family and she marched in her annual parade and blew out candles in a giant doughnut. We’ve been constantly talking about birthdays this week. We’ll sing her “Happy Birthday, Whitney,” and she smiles and scrunches her shoulders and almost always passes it along to someone else (“Happy Birthday, Mama!”). At lunch today she turned to Tyler...
We went on a family adventure last weekend to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I was sort of anticipating saying “okay kids, c’mon, over here there are MORE fish” because aquariums are just tanks and tanks of boring old fish, right? WRONG. What a fantastic place to take kids, especially when they are little! Why? Tons of brightly colored and oddly shaped moving things are...