Yearly Archives: 2011

55 posts

Grammy is not envious…

that Laina got to touch a snake! πŸ™‚ Sam and Laina went to a bday party for two preschool friends a couple weeks ago, and it was held at the nature center. The kids had a chance to touch turtles, snakes, etc, and apparently Laina showed no fear. Such a […]

7 months

Well, it appears that life will be changing for Mommy and Daddy pretty soon because Elijah is currently doing the “army crawl” and making his way around pretty well these days. He also likes to get up on his hands and knees, rock a few times, then lunge himself forward. […]

Testing…

Aside from the fact that time just slips away from us these days so the blog has been placed on the back burner, we’ve also had some trouble uploading photos. That is, of course, my smarty pants of a husband came to the rescue! So, this is the first photo […]

Bounce House fun

bounce houses seem to be the place to have bday parties these days…we’ve been to quite a few. laina does not mind one bit, though! a few weeks ago, we celebrated annie’s birthday. laina and annie are preschool friends, and they always seem to gravitate towards one another wherever they […]

Sweet potatoes!

Last weekend (3/19) was the first time Elijah had food! Just as we did with Laina, we started him off on sweet potatoes, and overall he seemed pretty open to the whole thing. He definitely gave us some funny facial expressions during those first few bites, but by the end […]

6 months

Buddy (as Laina refers to him) is now 6 months old. That’s half of a year, ya know. And I have to say our little “buddy” is a true snuggle bug. Maybe it’s because we don’t really give him an option not to snuggle because we know how quickly this […]

your children are not your children.they are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.they come through you but not from you,and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. ~kahlil gibran

Just because

….Not much of a story behind this picture, but it was just too cute to see E sporting this hat at a birthday party a few weeks ago. πŸ™‚