Scarlett is beyond thirteen months and continues to grow and excel. More and more of her personality is coming out and she's using her body in more risky ways. What I mean by that is that she's begun climbing furniture, running, tripping over everything, and standing on things that she falls off of. She also throws proto-tantrums and is very much a ( Read more... )

Scarlett continues to thrive as she heads towards her first birthday coming up in mid-March. She had another checkup at the beginning of the month and she remains in the 90th percentile for height for her age. During the holidays, she first began to walk, and now she's all over the place. She's almost practically running. She can now carry things ( Read more... )

The weather, just in the last couple weeks, has really turned soggy. Fall has arrived. It's always kind of sad to see Summer vanish so abruptly, but that's how it goes. It's that time of the year here in Oregon. We stop getting bright, sunny, 80-degree days and begin seeing damp, dark, 50-degree days more often than not. This morning, in particular ( Read more... )