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Birthday Girl

Today is Madeline’s third birthday and I’m letting her be queen for the day. First on the queen’s agenda: Get all decked out. She raided her dress-up trunk and put together this get-up. We have quite the fashionista on our hands. Being stylish clearly comes naturally to Madeline. When she saw the picture on theRead the whole post >>

Works in Progress

Sure, I’d like to publish a book or two someday, but right now these are my most important works in progress: Madeline Rachel Marie (AKA Baby Rae) Mary Elizabeth (AKA M.E.) All My Girls

Baby Hands & Feet

I love how babies discover their hands and feet and contemplate them like they are the most amazing things they’ve ever seen. These days, Rachel Marie has regular tête-à-têtes with her hands or her feet. Today I watched her stare at her curled fists and then watch as her fingers unfurled one by one. SheRead the whole post >>

Littermates

While other little girls took on the altar egos of princesses or blooming buds for Halloween, my daughter preferred to metamorphose into girl’s best friend, Ivy, my parent’s yellow Lab. She also made the request that Baby Rae be her Lab pup. Ivy seemed to enjoy her new littermates.

Insomniac Turns Narcoleptic

Here’s what happens when you have a cold and still refuse to go to bed at a reasonable hour and like a hamster burning the midnight oil on a wheel, you run up and down the hall until 11 p.m. even though you are not a nocturnal rodent and your parents have shut their doorRead the whole post >>