Categories May 2009

Birthday Post No. 1

I am sure that I will post tonight about the girls' birthday, hopefully with some pictures. But first, I have to devote a blog post to my AMAZING niece, Sarah. She is the sweetest person, and so thoughtful and mature.…

Dubious Milestones

Here are a few things that M&A are not quite old enough for yet: chess, and arguably checkers applying labels to CDs their nascent collection of quarters from the 50 states (not much interest) books about astronauts and space missions…

Gotta Be Monday

Girls were in rare form today. A bunch of things: M stayed home from school. At 11, we went to school to pick up A to take her to the doctor, along with M. On the way, she said some…

Sick Day

Today was a sick day at our house. M woke up at 5:30 this morning with a high fever. She didn't get much sleep and was coughing a lot. We called the doctor who laughed off our fears of swine…

Biking Lessons

Sorry for sporadic posting the last few days. Yesterday we were at a rehearsal dinner until late, and I fell asleep before posting. Today, the girls had a very busy day. Daddy took them to gymnastics and to a birthday…

Categories April 2009

Morris the Moose

The girls have discovered a new book that is CRACKING them up. It is very entertaining when they hear a (mildly amusing) joke and then laugh hysterically, over and over, at it. This is what was cracking them up so…

Categories April 2009

Random Snippets

First – here are some photos from soccer. So cute!     We still haven't found Clarabelle. Buppie gave the girls a piano lesson today. Here is her report: Maddie loves to work out of the piano book. Alexa likes…

Categories April 2009

Weekend Report

Oh my god, I do not remember being this tired for a long time. Busy weekend, bad night of sleep, end of the auction… I am beat. The girls had an excellent weekend,I think. Yesterday was gymnastics and then they…