I was saying how its February and theres really no reason our neighbors should still have Christmas lights on in the evenings, but then, I still havent written about Christmas.Ive always loved Christ...
She is 18 months old, and going on 13. If you ask her, shell tell you shes five. "Fiiife!"Shes putting words together. "Help, please!" And she gestures for me to follow and says, "...
Today we made sugar cookies. Actually, I made them and you ate them. Silly me, to think I might put something sweet within your reach and it wouldnt go straight into your mouth! First it was the doug...
At 16-months, youre still not a consistent sleeper. You often wake in the night and require some attention before youll go back to sleep. Or when Im really tired, I just bring you to bed with us. Sin...
She has Elmo-radar. If there is an Elmo, she will find it, "Ehl-mo! Ehl-mo! Ehl-mo!" She carries around her very own little Elmo everywhere, and he sleeps with her every night.I sneeze and sh...
Im sorry to say, your daddy started calling you "stinky" a long time ago, and it stuck. We call you "the stinkster" and many other names derived from "stinky." But of course w...
I upgraded my iPhone 3 for the 4S (HALLELUJAH!) and Ive been on the hunt for new apps for Fable. The pediatrician actually told me about this one - Peekaboo Barn. It teaches animal sounds and names.F...
I attempt to brush her teeth, and she clamps her mouth shut and shakes her head.I put green beans on her plate and she throws them on the floor.I tell her not to stand in the bath or the high chair o...
She brings a book, turns herself around and plops down in my lap. I read the first two words before she turns the page. "Brown bear... Red bird... Yellow duck..."She reaches out her hands to ...
How can it be that you are already one? Wasnt it just yesterday that I was holding my brand new baby in my arms? But tonight, when I was giving you a bath, you stood in the tub completely unassisted ...
I nursed Fable to sleep last night, like I do every night, but when I put her down and left the room, she started crying. I let her cry for a few minutes, and then because Im a sucker, I went in to r...
She pulls herself up on the furniture, and makes her way around the room. She touches the sheepskin on the arm of the sofa and says, "Saaaaaaf." She finds the remote control, points it toward...
Some days I think Im ready to try for another baby. And then some days I think Ill be ready when Fable is old enough to have an after-school job.I swore off birth control forever before we conceived ...
Just in time for Mothers Day, Fable has learned to say mama. Of course she doesnt know what shes saying, or that my heart explodes each time I hear her utter those two little syllables, but it does, ...
Then:Now:My, how quickly she grows.
Today my darling girl has been outside my womb {approximately} as long as she was in it. 40 weeks and 4 days. She is now 19 pounds and 2 ounces, 28 inches long, laughing, babbling, clapping, waving, ...
Some days I think I should give up blogging. Because I rarely make the time for it anymore, and I often feel guilty for that. I still Twitter, and I record short daily notes on my phone, but I seldom...
My mom watched Fable for me this morning while I went to the gym. When I came home, I walked in the door, grabbed a package that had been mistakenly delivered to us, and quickly ran it over to our ne...
V is for virus. The influenza virus, to be exact. It hit me first, last week, and now it has passed on to Fable. Her fever was 102 this morning, before we started ibuprofen. Not a very happy Valentin...
I said that I wanted to write more, and then my baby girl decided that sleeping through the night was so 2010. So now when I put her to bed, I put myself to bed shortly thereafter because I have no i...
Your first Christmas has come and gone, and you are none the wiser. All you know is that there was a large tree in our living room (strange, I know), covered with the most beautiful lights and shiny ...
When youre pregnant, everyone tells you to "stock up on sleep." Toward the end of my pregnancy, I began to find this particularly annoying. As I said before, sleep isnt something you can stor...
Even though youve decided youre over the whole sleeping through the night thing, even though you kept us up most of last night, even though Im so tired I could cry, I still love you very very much. A...
Before Fable, I would often blog on my lunch break. Now that I only work part-time, I dont take lunch breaks, and when Im home, Im busy or too tired to write. The days are slipping away and Im starti...
Fable isnt six months old, but Ive already found the cake Im going to {attempt to} make for her first birthday.
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