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36 months

01 Sunday Jan 2012

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The last month of age 2 started with a visit from Grandma and Grandpa. They were able to give you all the things that Grandparents do – they hugged, spoiled and loved you… and you ate it up. Thankfully you are over the shy phase and were only too happy to take in all the grand parents had to give.

Since your last birthday you’ve been having tea parties with your toys. This month you got to join Mommy for a real tea party. You were really excited at the idea of it, but when it came time to actually sit with adults, you found other things to do.

Your desire to have a birthday got stronger. We’ve been having a countdown of Continue reading »

TWO WHOLE YEARS OLD

01 Saturday Jan 2011

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Dearest Bean,

You are turning into a little girl before my eyes and I cannot believe it. I cannot believe how big you are, how smart you are and how beautiful you are.

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been showing you how to hold up two fingers and answer the question, “How old are you?”. You have been saying “two” down, the hand thing is possible, but takes a little time. Since we have done such a good job of getting you to blow your nose, you are confused when I ask you to “blow” (like blowing out a candle or blowing bubbles). Back to the drawing board on that one…

You had your second Christmas and this year you were very willing to pose for the Christmas pictures. We got to go to Washington, D.C. to see the National Christmas tree (although Santa wasn’t there when we went) and you got to try your very first hot chocolate. You didn’t drink it, of course, but it was worth a shot.

Your favorite thing to play with is still the flash cards, but books are not as interesting as they used to be. The flashcards made a comeback when I gave you a photo flip book of all the animals I’ve been taking pictures of all these years. You now are matching the photos I took to the animals in the flip cards. You are also a HUGE fan of coloring. You are usually good at staying on the paper and you can proudly draw a circle (which looks like a circle) and of all the people in your life (which also looks like circles and scribbles). You can tell who you like best – people/things you like a lot get BIG scribbles, while those you just like, get little scribbles.

You sometimes help Daddy make beer, but this month you helped Mommy and Daddy make wine. I don’t know where this falls on the appropriate scale, but you didn’t drink any of it, and I am certain this is not the last of the alcoholic beverages you will help make, so I am going to call it a learning experience.

Christmas was SO much fun this year. You put out cookies for Santa (and tried to take a little sample of one of the cookies), you took a picture WITH Santa (Mommy’s Christmas wish) and you loved opening your toys. We let you open whichever one you wanted first – meaning the big one was first. Lesson learned for next year… if the “good one” is first, you won’t want to open the others… now I know. Your favorite toys from Christmas are your play kitchen, a Bean-sized table and chairs and a HUGE teddy bear you named “Charles the Bear” and a small monkey with long arms you named “Boy”. You have been feeding them, taking them to bed with you, sitting them in the extra chair and being a very good “mommy”. You even put a bib on “Charles the Bear” and make him wash his hands in your toy kitchen sink. You’ve been pretending before, but this new level is SO very adorable.

We are now getting ready for your birthday party. This is the first of your two parties this year and my sister would be laughing if she knew that you were having 16 adults and 3 kids at your party – and this is only the first. The second has 7 of your friends (all around 2 years old) and their parents. I guess I now understand why my sister throws such huge parties for your cousins. I couldn’t be more proud of you. I hope you know how much your Daddy and I love you.

Love,
Mommy.

No… Wanted a WHITE Christmas… not Wet

27 Saturday Dec 2008

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Christmas Day at our house was very peaceful. We woke up, built a fire in the fireplace, opened presents, then tried (unsuccessfully) to convince the baby to make an appearance.

I am starting to think this will become a pattern. You know… daughter not listening to her mommy and daddy. So far, she has turned for us, but she has not kept her weight down and size of her head down, she has not come out to say hi when we asked nice… Do you have any ideas on how to get an unborn baby to listen?

Last night my mom came in, so we have an extra person to help convince this little one. So far she has been just as effective as we are.

It is becoming harder and harder to be comfortable. The “tortuga effect” (as hubby calls it) is getting stronger and stronger. Getting out of bed, out off the couch or any seat that reclines requires not only the momentum of a good kick to help me get my body moving, but also a moan that you might hear in a karate class. I can get my socks on, but only if I have pants on that allow me to pull on the leg, so I can pull my foot up to me. If I drop something, it is like watching a sporting event to watch me pick it up… so I have been leaving a lot of things on the ground that I drop.

Now… 3 days until the “due date”… I am not only a turtle, but a snail. I am very large, very slow, and I am leaving a trail of crap everywhere I go (because I don’t want to pick it up).

I am sure I will find this very funny later. For now, I leave it to you to laugh. Enjoy.

Our Holiday Traditions

19 Friday Dec 2008

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Everyone has some kind of traditions around the holidays. With each generation, the old traditions are either continued, modified or abandoned. Also with each new family, new traditions are begun.

I’ve talked about my family traditions that have been continued (cooking coogily for “big dinners”, the Santa box, etc.). The traditions we’ve adopted on our own are:
– Nothing fancy for Christmas: For many many years, Christmas Day was the one day out of the entire year that I could almost guarantee that hubby and I would be off together. The first year we were off together, we made a huge batch of green chili burritos and watched movies all day. When we had a pool table, we invited friends over for the annual “pool tournament”, where everyone shared in the burritos, we ate, drank, were merry…. all in pajamas. Nothing Fancy. It was a great escape from the pressures of family obligations and stresses of the season.

– Pictures by the National Christmas Tree: Since moving to the DC area, we have gone to the National tree to take group pictures in front of it. Every year, this picture is among my favorites.

– New ornaments for our Christmas tree: Every year we get the White House ornament (since 2001) and a new Star Wars ornament (since 1996, I think). Our tree is very eclectic with no rhyme or reason to the theme. It has homemade ornaments, next to antique ornaments, next to nightmare before Christmas ornaments, all with the mayor of Halloweentown as a tree topper. I guess I’d say the “theme” is all our holiday memories stuck on a tree”. We like it.

– Fancy New Years: Ricki came up with this one, I believe. We all wanted to dress up and go to a formal New Year’s party, but they tend to be expensive, lame or just too far away from where we wanted to go. So we host our own “Fancy new year’s party”. Everyone dresses up in their finest clothes, we have a formal dinner (complete with china) and celebrate the changing of the year in style. It is always a lot of fun.

What traditions have you begun with your generation?

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