The Thanksgiving meal was lovely! It was a great, low stress day, and everything was delicious. Killian’s favorite part of the meal was the sparkling grape juice:

While, Ellie just couldn’t make up her mind what her favorite part was, so she had four helpings of everything!

After Thanksgiving dinner, we rested, took the kids [...]

Its so hard to believe that one year ago Ellie was a newborn… Thus, I let my parents do all the cooking.  This year I had planned on doing most of it, but when I woke up this morning they’d already put the turkey in and were finishing the stuffing!  So far I’ve made cranberry-orange [...]

So, Ellie is officially a walker now!  She’s been taking a few steps here and there, but Sunday night (on her birthday) she did 19 steps in a row!  She’s now walking most of the time instead of crawling.
Her 12-month well-child-visit was today.  She’s 29.5 inches (60th percentile), 21 lbs (50th percentile), and has an [...]

We had a wonderful little birthday party for Ellie today!  Here are the highlights…
Starting the party off:

Ellie didn’t know what to make of her “cupcake” (pumpkin muffin with homemade cream cheese icing):

She loved her presents, including her little Lily frog Grandma and Grandpa got her:

And, the playsilks I dyed for her:

She got lots of other [...]

My sweet little baby turns one year old today.  Last night I looked up her birth story from when I’d written it a few days after she was born…
I woke up early Saturday morning. It was very strange, I woke up disoriented, noticed it was 1:38am, went to the bathroom and got back in [...]

So, today I went to Walmart and was going to buy groceries for the week and supplies for Ellie’s birthday party. Well, David asked me to stop by the electronics to ask about their Wii arrival tonight. When I stopped there, I noticed a table full of clearance digital cameras at amazing prices! [...]

I’m heading to bed, but I should post something I’m thankful for…
At the moment I’m feeling thankful for a lot of things: kind words from friends, being healthy enough to exercise every day, having two adorable kids, the new BNL album (which I LOVE)…
Gotta run, crying baby!  I can hear David pacing with her upstairs.