Entries Tagged as 'family'
Woke up to a crying baby at 7:30am. Fed her.
Got Jack his morning sippy cup of milk and watched him run around the house clad in the bottom half of his new skeleton pajamas. Felt special when Jack cuddled onto my lap. Adored his baby curls and mourned that they’ll have to [...]
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Sorry for the silence. We are enjoying being a family of four and doing our best to hang on for the ride (and keep ourselves fed and clean and rested). Ginger was blessed in church last weekend and then we took some photos in the park. Then we came home, took our [...]
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You are now one month old! The time has really zoomed by and you are growing so fast! Just about everything about you is perfect and sweet and precious. We love watching you watch the world.
You’ve already been so many places and done so many things. We took you on a [...]
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You are 18 months old today! So much has happened since my last little letter to you- you are growing up so fast and have become a big brother!
Your eating habits have improved ever so slightly. We have added rice, chicken nuggets, cheesecake, chex mix, nilla wafers, and my cereal to the list [...]
Tags: jack
We are now at the end (the very teensy tiny last bit will be tonight) of baby leave. Garth took 20 days off when Ginger was born and he goes back to work tomorrow. This means that as of 6am tomorrow I am officially the primary caregiver of TWO children. oh my.
The [...]
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Ginger’s first seven days.
Do you think that she looks like her brother did during his first seven days on this planet?
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World, meet ginger.
She was born early the morning of August 23rd, a short 30 minutes after we arrived at the hospital- no epidural, hospital gown barely on, my Doctor making it in just in time for the final few pushes. It was ideal.
She has long eyelashes and dark dark hair. Sometimes she looks [...]
Tags: baby · birthday · ginger
Well, here it is- my estimated date of delivery. I was optimistic that I would be holding a little ginger girl by this time, but here I am waddling around the house, wishing that I could choose the time of her arrival. Tonight would be great. Ya hear that ging?
It’s a surreal [...]
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Dear Ginger,
Just in case we haven’t officially told you yet, we’re ready for you. We have washed and folded all your little dainty pink baby clothes (with a healthy dose of hand-me-downs from your brother).
We have a vintage Jenny Lind crib that we picked up for you at a garage sale, and even though [...]
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