Its amazing how much some things change and some are the same. Below is a picture of Isabelle and Will (at birth, with Daddy) -- can you tell who is who? It's amazing how similar some of those pictures look. Sweet babes...
Monday, August 03, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
How to Parent and Three Year Old Without Being (or feeling like) an Asshole.
Is there a book with this title? Please tell me there is because I desperately need to read it. Isabelle sailed through the Twos with a handful of meltdowns and maybe one or two tantrums. Three. Well Three is where we are getting it all, saved up, festered, and exploding out of her like a long dormant volcano. Sigh.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Growing.
Our little fishy Isabelle. She can actually swim now. here she is going off the diving board. She is fearless!
With one of her school friends Camlynn. They are very cute and adore each other. Camlynn has an enviable dress-up chest, which Isabelle covets.
Will is big enough to go in the exersaucer--he loves it. He also loves to be outside, and to watch Miss Isabelle doing anything.
With one of her school friends Camlynn. They are very cute and adore each other. Camlynn has an enviable dress-up chest, which Isabelle covets.
Will is big enough to go in the exersaucer--he loves it. He also loves to be outside, and to watch Miss Isabelle doing anything.
Random.
Isabelle and Will -- most days she adores him, last night she told me "I don't want a baby anymore..."
Will likes his baths, sometimes he cries when you take him out.
Ah, the adorable "lip" -- it comes out when he is sad. So cute, poor little man, we can't help but laugh when he does it.
Happy girl!
And again with the lip!
Isabelle holding Will in the baby sling. It lasted all of 15 seconds before she wanted to give him back.
Summer weather = pools and splashing!
Isabelle drew this happy face about two months ago, I thought it was quite good.
She loves to crawl into the crib with her baby.
My little fairy princess.
Will likes his baths, sometimes he cries when you take him out.
Ah, the adorable "lip" -- it comes out when he is sad. So cute, poor little man, we can't help but laugh when he does it.
Happy girl!
And again with the lip!
Isabelle holding Will in the baby sling. It lasted all of 15 seconds before she wanted to give him back.
Summer weather = pools and splashing!
Isabelle drew this happy face about two months ago, I thought it was quite good.
She loves to crawl into the crib with her baby.
My little fairy princess.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Alright already.
Okay. Okay. I know I promised never to go so long without new entries. I lied. So here's a catch up on what's happened in the last, what SIX months:
1. Isabelle turned three;
2. Isabelle finally got a real baby sitter (i.e., not a family member or existing friend). I was very worried--well fretting really--about how she would do with Mariah. See I had chosen Mariah from a baby sitter website because she looked nice, had a clean background, sounded normal on the phone and had two horses (she's 28 so not a kid). Their first date was Isabelle going to Mariah's stable to meet and ride her horse. I hand rung and fretted. Then I worried and obsessed. Well, of course, I was a fool. So much so that Isabelle cried CRIED when Mariah dropped her off. She has since tried to lock Mariah IN our house and told me "Mariah is better than you Mom." Sigh...the life and times with a three year old.
3. Isabelle had three ear infections.
4. Paul turned 43.
5. Oh, and we had a baby. William Aren Lively, born March 28, 2009.
Isabelle was adorable when she first came in to see him. She said "oh, oh, oh...he's GORGEOUS!" It was hard for her to be away from us for three nights. And she had a tough few days adjusting but now seems to be back to her normal self. She still has a hard time when I am nursing him or rocking him to sleep, but has otherwise adapted quite well.
The cats were a bit more suspicious...
I came back to work on Monday (as in two days ago). I was ready, there were cobwebs on my brain. But I certainly miss Will during the day. I would miss Isabelle more, but she dropped us for Linda and Milly and Zach and hasn't wanted to come home for two nights. Mom and Dad just don't compare to a pool.
1. Isabelle turned three;
2. Isabelle finally got a real baby sitter (i.e., not a family member or existing friend). I was very worried--well fretting really--about how she would do with Mariah. See I had chosen Mariah from a baby sitter website because she looked nice, had a clean background, sounded normal on the phone and had two horses (she's 28 so not a kid). Their first date was Isabelle going to Mariah's stable to meet and ride her horse. I hand rung and fretted. Then I worried and obsessed. Well, of course, I was a fool. So much so that Isabelle cried CRIED when Mariah dropped her off. She has since tried to lock Mariah IN our house and told me "Mariah is better than you Mom." Sigh...the life and times with a three year old.
3. Isabelle had three ear infections.
4. Paul turned 43.
5. Oh, and we had a baby. William Aren Lively, born March 28, 2009.
Isabelle was adorable when she first came in to see him. She said "oh, oh, oh...he's GORGEOUS!" It was hard for her to be away from us for three nights. And she had a tough few days adjusting but now seems to be back to her normal self. She still has a hard time when I am nursing him or rocking him to sleep, but has otherwise adapted quite well.
The cats were a bit more suspicious...
I came back to work on Monday (as in two days ago). I was ready, there were cobwebs on my brain. But I certainly miss Will during the day. I would miss Isabelle more, but she dropped us for Linda and Milly and Zach and hasn't wanted to come home for two nights. Mom and Dad just don't compare to a pool.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Indigo and mud.
Here are some more recent pictures from Isabelle's riding lessons (this is from Saturday 1/3/09). She is riding Indigo. it was about 33 degrees in the barn, brrrrr!
PS: notice the purple riding helmet, Isabelle picked it out herself. Purple is her favorite color.
And even more fun than riding? Why, playing in the mud around the barn--in particular the deep, sloppy puddles and mountain of dirty gravel. Yippeee! it's good to be almost 3!
Note that I didn't get true "after" shots -- the ones showing that the water went into her boots and that she fell down 5 times and was coated, and quite happily so, in mud.
PS: notice the purple riding helmet, Isabelle picked it out herself. Purple is her favorite color.
And even more fun than riding? Why, playing in the mud around the barn--in particular the deep, sloppy puddles and mountain of dirty gravel. Yippeee! it's good to be almost 3!
Note that I didn't get true "after" shots -- the ones showing that the water went into her boots and that she fell down 5 times and was coated, and quite happily so, in mud.
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