Cute thing one that Crime Fighter has started, is actively asking for kisses by pressing his face against mine and making kiss noises. Sometimes the stuffed animal needs a kiss, too, and is also applied firmly to my face. This is usually first thing in the morning while we're contemplating this "vertical" thing that all the kids are talking about ( Read more... )

The baby!!! Yes, I need to talk about The Crime Fighter. I keep composing posts about him and then failing to commit them to electrons.I'm feeling super-bad because I've not really written about hi since Thanksgiving. So, let's see ( Read more... )

... Sitting in a shallow box, putting crayons into the box, and out of the box, over and over and over. Not quite to the drawing on the big box in which he was sitting. Maybe tomorrow. The crayon box is now reinforced with tape. It might last through to Friday if we're lucky.

Other cute of the evening was putting on and taking off his new scarf knit ( Read more... )

So, my phone has taken to switching itself off again. Arrrrgh. Solution- get a clone of what I've been using. It turns out an extra $50/month is a good use of money so I can look at my calendar or check to see when a bus is coming. And so on. Sweetly, my father's offered to be my on-call bus checker to mitigate the disappointment of not being able ( Read more... )

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It's been 14 years since quiet_elegance and I decided to make an official go of it.  This year he's gotten me a renewed, slightly used, but nicely broken in Commander in Chief. This is really preferable over a new one, because I don't like the OS that goes with Mittens.

Some snapshots from anniversaries past, courtesy of Live Journal:

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My baby's really not a baby so much these days... well, maybe a little. But he's well on his way to kid-land.

Baby tricks
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Of course I took a lot of pictures on Wednesday...

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