First words.

Elizabeth’s words are actually beginning to emerge.  And guess what her first clear as day word is?…. ‘No!’  I imagine there are other words she may be saying that I can’t even make out as a word, but this one is now as clear as can be.  It emerged the other day at Target.  Upon [...]

Catching up.

I decided I am not even going to try to catch up on blogging… I’m just going to get right back to it.  I always get thrown off when we take a trip somewhere and try to catch up, but now a week and a half later I realize I need to just forget about [...]

Twenty-two.

Yesterday Elizabeth turned 22 months old.  Wow.  I can’t believe in only two months she will be two.  In the last few weeks especially she has become so fun.  She is so full of laughter and we have so much fun together all day.  I love the way she laughs and tries to socialize with [...]

5:30 a.m. riser

equal 8:30 a.m. crasher.

The very hungry GREEN caterpillar.

Today after Elizabeth’s nap we made a caterpillar out of an egg carton for our craft project for the day.  We are working on ‘green’ this week, so we tried to make him as green as possible.  Aside from the brown pom-pons on top that Elizabeth insisted on, rather than the more colorful green,  I [...]

Lactose?

Erik watched a program on CNN tonight that discussed the fact that by age 2, most Asians are lactose intolerant. We are beginning to think maybe this may be some of what Elizabeth’s problems have been lately (not sleeping well, extra crabby, seemingly uncomfortable at times).  I don’t know if this is something that needs [...]

The uneaten icecream.

I think my pictures are about to get really  bad for a while.  I have moved my camera into full manual mode and am determined not to rely on the automatic and programmed functions anymore.  I figured the only way I can get better pictures is to just quite the programmed functions cold turkey.  So, [...]

Yadda, yadda, yadda.

So last night I had the intentions of playing catch up from our weekend with Aunt Ree and Uncle Adam and trip to the state fair, but after the more than two hours it took me to put Elizabeth to bed and a slow computer, I had nothing left in me for the night and [...]

Trial and Error.

Over the past few months I have come to a very important conclusion.  And that is life with kids is not, and most certainly should not, be perfect.  I have spent the last seven months struggling to take grasp of what it means to be a parent, what my role as a mother is, and [...]

Stick Hunting.

Today was one of those days that when Elizabeth woke up, I knew it was going to be a challenging day.  I hate days where she wakes up extra crabby and crying.  She slept better last night, only waking once, so one would think she would have woke up refreshed.  Today was one of those [...]