So Ree got hold of the cardboard egg-carton type spacer that was used in packing my new laptop in its box, and she took it to the potty with her. She sat on the potty and started madly twiddling her hands over the packing spacer and informed me that it was her "gun-tar ( Read more... )

So today is Rhiannon's second birthday. I know everyone says the time flies when you have little ones, and while I can't say it's dragged, I don't feel like it's flown. I think it's because when I think back to two years ago when she was born, it's like it happened in a different life, to somebody else. There have been so many changes, that the ( Read more... )

I'm closing in on finishing the second sleeve on the Sweater o' Doom, which means the time for the finishing of the dreaded Neckband of Much Woe is drawing ever more nigh. I was looking at how much yarn I had left last night and trying to figure out if it will last through the neckband and the sewing of all the pieces together and feeling very, ( Read more... )

Ree has used the potty twice today so far...once spontaneously on her own when I let her run about with no pants or diaper on, and once when I put her on it after lunch. Keeping my fingers crossed!

Rhiannon just went and used the potty on her own!!!!

So I asked for a DVD of The Sound of Music for Christmas, since there are so many songs from it that my mom and I sing to Ree ( Read more... )

So...there was that post of substance I said I was going to make. I had it all in my head, and then I spent the last hour or so looking for Ree's beloved Clown from her Little People theme park toy she got for Christmas, and now I don't much feel like it. (I have been learning to let all those missing little toys and pieces slide, but when you've ( Read more... )

Over the last three or four days, Ree has been running around with her magnetic fridge letters chanting, "Make a robot! Make a robot ( Read more... )

I've explained to Ree a few times that our cat Tuck is a mooch, that he'll try anything to steal our food. I just had to boot him off my chair where he was patiently awaiting me to sit after reheating some stir-fry. Ree pointed at him and yelled, "Mooch! Mooch! Tuckie!" Which I think shows pretty good memory and reasoning skills ( Read more... )

Ree: Da-DEH?

Me: Daddy's at work.

Ree: Ma-MEH.

Me: Yeah, I'm here.

Ree: Gahpu?

Me: Grandma's at work, too.

Ree: (trying the word out for the first time ever) Wook.

Me: Yep, they're at work, making money.

Ree: Mih-NEH.

Me: Yep, money.