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Month: November 2012

invaders!

invaders!

One day a month or so ago, I left my house to go pick up Savannah from school. While I was in the carpool line, a friend whose son also attends the preschool called and asked if we wanted to stay and play in the playground for a little bit. That sounds like fun, I thought. While we were there, I got a phone call from my neighbor. She doesn’t speak English, and phone conversations in Spanish are very difficult…

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dear Caroline: four months

dear Caroline: four months

Dear Caroline, Today you are 4 months old! You continue to grow so fast. I am very much enjoying this phase – you are adorable, animated, and smiley. You have started interacting with us, laughing and giving us huge baby grins when you’re in a good mood, and getting obviously excited when anticipating something. This month your hair started falling out! You have a patch on the base of your neck, and a patch on the top front of your…

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25 days of christmas books

25 days of christmas books

We’re starting a new tradition this year! It will probably take a few years to build up our collection but I’m excited about this. We’ll be reading one children’s Christmas book each day in December, leading up to Christmas! (This will be in addition to daily advent reading of the story of Jesus from the Bible.) I want to make it a fun family activity of reading together and enjoying all the classic Christmas stories that I grew up with,…

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catching up – car accident

catching up – car accident

I haven’t posted about several not-so-great things that have happened here recently. I’ll start with the car accident. When Caroline was only 3 weeks old (beginning of August), we were driving on the interstate and the car behind me rear-ended me. It was really scary – Savannah and Caroline both started crying, even though we all were fine. Poor girls! There wasn’t a lot of damage, but my head hit the head rest pretty hard. I had x-rays taken and…

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