My mom was digging through some old stuff the other day and found this little story I had apparently written and illustrated when I was just seven. Here’s the advice I can glean from having dis...
We rang in the summer season (i.e. Memorial Day weekend) in true stereotypical fashion – at the beach! We dashed up to my parents’ beach house near Bethany Beach, Delaware for the long we...
We recently went to celebrate our cousins’ son Edison’s first birthday in Northern Virginia. It was quick trip, but a blast nonetheless. The party started off with a visit from a balloon ...
For those of you who follow us on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter – you probably already know that we spent some time at Richmond’s Riverrock festival this weekend. It’s a three-day ...
After getting as much work done as possible on Monday morning and early afternoon, we took the evening off to show Clara some birthday fun – as some of you who follow us on Instagram / Facebook...
If you can believe it, it’s been a full year since we started taking these monthly shots of Clara (and two years since she was born and we embarked with weekly ones). Yep, as of today she’...
The other day we noticed a damaged spot on the brick wall at a local shopping center. Didn’t think much of it except for “wonder what did that?” But then a few days later we got our...
We give Burger a Dentastix treat every night at the recommendation of our vet (as a way to keep up the work done at his teeth cleaning last fall). Plus, Burger likes them. Pardon me. What I meant to ...
These are the types of reminder emails that I send myself from my iPhone when, before falling asleep at night, I realize Burger’s doggy bag from our walk earlier that day is still sitting in th...
Burger sleeps in bed with us. Most likely you already know this. He starts off every night curled up under the covers near our feet or knees, but eventually migrates up to the spot right between our ...
Frog pajamas + dress up skirt + furry winter hat + a toddler who is starting to have an opinion about what she wears = trouble. What are we going to do with this girl?
Clara has a new favorite song. Sorry Rihanna. Sorry Adele. But you’ve both been replaced by Fun. I give you Exhibit A: And it doesn’t just happen when we prompt her. Sherry was able to sn...
We love Richmond. Have we said that lately? We could give you lots of reasons why, but for now we’ll focus on the love-able things we enjoyed a couple of weekends ago (the same weekend we hit u...
Here’s a video from the archives (January to be exact – somehow we overlooked it four months ago). It’s becoming pretty clear that Rihanna tops of the list of Clara’s favorite...
Clara is starting to warm up to bows, headbands and other hair accessories. But she’s still getting the hang of how they’re supposed to be worn. At least Burger knows how to rock a pink h...
Clara has always loved singing. She has picked up the words to a surprising range of songs (from Rihanna to Barney), but the newest development is that she has started freestylin’. This usually...
Here we are – less than one month away from Clara’s 2nd birthday. Crazytown. And to celebrate, Clara invited her Easter bunny friend to join her for this month’s photo: I’d li...
Did everyone have a nice Easter weekend? We had a fairly casual one around here, mainly centered around eating and hanging out with family. And since John’s sister and her two sons and hubby ha...
It’s official. Hunger Games fever has hit Casa Petersik. I actually got it first. I thought I’d take a stab at reading the book before potentially seeing the movie. I had heard it was a q...
When I managed to capture Clara’s morning chatter-fest on camera the other day, we couldn’t help but try to decipher the one-sided conversation for you guys. Hence the subtitles. There wa...
I’m not sure we’ve ever formally introduced you to Bearger. No, not Burger – Bearger. He’s a stuffed bear that was a baby shower gift for Clara, but ended up becoming one of S...
This is just a video for Clara’s proud grandma in NY who wanted to hear her ABCs and numbers. Clara has her alphabet down pretty well by now (anything that’s a song is usually something s...
Saturday was the Monument Avenue 10K, a giant road race here in Richmond that has become a Petersik family tradition of sorts. One year we had 13 family members run or walk it, along the with 40,000-...
We have an outdoor shopping mall called Stony Point about ten minutes from our house, so one of our go-to activities this time of year is to head over for a bite to eat (mmm, Chipotle) and a couple o...
Clara got her first ride behind the wheel of one of those grocery store “race-carts” the other day. You know, those big shopping carts with a special kids-mobile on the front of it? This ...
Yes, Sherry birthday was on Monday – but this, which I just came across in my files, was shot over a month ago (note the old floors). So I have no explanation for why Clara broke out into her o...
We’re a week behind on this, but Clara turned 22 months old last Wednesday… which means we’re less than two months away from, well, two! Which is crazy because this year is flying b...
As if life couldn’t get any more glamorous around here… this was the scene the other night: Since tax day is less than a month away, we met with our accountant this week so that he could ...
Lately Clara has been very into magazines – even requesting them specifically (especially when a new pile of mail arrives). So this is becoming a typical scene around here lately. Clearly she t...
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