Merry!

Eva has a holiday message for you:

That’s as far as we got. “Can you say Christmas?” overloads her brain.

For fun, here’s a video of one of our present opening highlights. Be sure to line up your opponent properly before you whack him in the head!

Merry Christmas!

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Yummy!

We’re not exactly sure where this one came from…

Mock all you want, but all she’s ever heard from us is “Mama’s coffee is yucky!”

Disclaimer: No toddlers ingested coffee during the making of this video.

A bug, a cat, and a pirate

This may be Eva’s second Halloween, but it feels like her first. There’s a glint in her eyes when you put on her wings – she knows she’s cute, and she knows she’s dressed as a bug. She knows Mama is a cat or, as she puts it, “Mamaaaaaameow.” And she thinks other kids in [...]

She speaks

I’ve been looking forward to Eva’s first words since… well, before she was born. I was actually disappointed that babies don’t come out talking, and that you have to wait more than a year to hear more than “Mama” and “Dada.”

For several weeks now, Eva has said “ah” while she signs “all done.” [...]

A backlog of blogs

After a busy June, July, and August, it’s time to dust off the old blog and tell our summer tales.

I’ve had a number of blog entries knocking around my brain, but no time to write them between Gymboree, toddler-chasing, and a sudden influx of business. But thanks to a recent huge storm (more on [...]

More clapping

Eight months is an exciting age. We’re finally getting to milestones that are concrete – not as much wondering, “Is that a laugh or a cough? She can sit! No wait… she can’t. Is it a new tooth or a cold?” Finally Eva has coordination with some intelligence behind it, and we’re starting to see [...]

Baby laughs

On the off-chance someone out there is having a bad day, I give you a laughing, squealing baby accompanied by her crazy mother:

I spend a fair amount of time bouncing up and down in front of Eva in large-scale games of peek-a-boo, and I can tell you it’s quite a workout.

Dedicated Eva [...]

Flying through September

I reviewed our September photos on September 28 and thought, “21 photos. That’s a nice number for our September gallery.” I went out the next night and left Matt home alone for two hours. I came home to 41 new photos of Eva, plus a video. Sigh.

I still managed to keep our numbers low, [...]

24 seconds at the beach

Early Friday evening. Low tide. Not too hot, not too cold, not too windy. 5 humans (counting myself) in sight.