I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Well, Elizabeth’s crabbiness and screaming fits have been explained–she cut a new tooth today! It’s the top right one, though there’s no way she’ll let me get a picture of it yet. So we’ll all just have to enjoy her bottom two teeth for a few more weeks. I came out of teaching this afternoon and found her shirt drenched in drool. Well, everything makes sense now!
Apr 13th, 2010 by DTM
Em drove down to meet her family and pick up Tommy from his trip to Missouri over the weekend. Unfortunately, Tommy became car sick early in the trip. Additionally, Emily is experiencing a minor (largely cosmetic, but annoying) car issue on the drive.
But on the plus side, we have a house for next year! Here’s a photo (Em will have a full update later) so that you can be happy in the midst of an otherwise-trying day (or week).
Apr 13th, 2010 by ECM
Elizabeth has been hanging out with us for 11 months today! She gets more fun every month. Recently she’s been crawling everywhere, pulling up on anything and everything, cruising along the couch or chairs, laughing at Tommy, waving to people (that was new this weekend), and enjoying eating solid foods. No baby food for this girl, thank you very much. She wants to feed herself everything. Recent favorites include melons, pineapple, strawberries, grapes, and cheese sticks. This girl loves cheese sticks. She won’t eat cheerios on her high chair, but on the floor, they become acceptable snack food. With no food allergies, she pretty much eats whatever we’re eating, whether ham and mashed potatoes, hamburger and pasta, eggplant parmesan, or homemade bread. She and I came to a mutual agreement this weekend that nursing was done. We are both happy with it. This morning we just snuggled in bed while she drank a bottle. A month and a half earlier than Tommy, but that’s okay. Despite our rocky roadtrip weekend, we have enjoyed just girl time without Tommy banging his bike into us, and this morning I’m working on invitations for her first birth-tea party (!). I love having this little girl around!
note the bib–such is the life of a second born! When your monogrammed burp rags and bibs are dirty, you get to use big brother’s…
This is a great shot of the two teeth!
Apr 12th, 2010 by ECM
So I was planning on dazzling my devoted readers with amazing pictures of the adorable house we found in State College this weekend…except that we didn’t find it.
(3 bedroom single family homes available in June are scarce in a town of 30,000 where everything goes with the academic calendar…and thanks to the first time homeowners tax credit, people are selling instead of renting. We did visit a nice EFree church where people are going to keep their eyes open for us, but the plan now is for Derek to fly back and find something in a few weeks–in any case, I will be moving into a house sight unseen this summer.)
And the all-day drive to and from seriously messed with Elizabeth’s sleep schedule, in that she was NOT sleeping from 2-5 am. So as we failed at househunting all weekend, I was so bleary eyed and discouraged that I didn’t bother taking pictures of any Penn State landmarks…but I’m sure we’ll have lots of photo shoots in front of Berkey Creamery and the Nittany Lion shrine and the Dickinson School of Law in the coming year. So instead, here’s a picture of driving into Happy Valley (I can’t wait for fall there!) and Elizabeth playing with Uncle Matthew on the way home.
Apr 8th, 2010 by ECM
A play date with your best bud makes everything better.
Apr 7th, 2010 by ECM
Anyone else notice that their kids act up when there have been several successive rainy days?
Apr 6th, 2010 by ECM
Okay, I am slowly getting up pictures from the weekend! We’ve been socializing quite a bit of late, but dinner is in the crockpot and the bread is rising, so here goes…
Sunday morning before church we did an Easter egg hunt in the front yard with Juliet. She actually got way more into it than Tommy, but they both had fun. I made hot cross buns (it’s Cammy’s family tradition!), and Elizabeth loved them!
Apr 5th, 2010 by ECM
From a month or so ago (I know, we’re slow!), Lizzie plays her favorite game:
Apr 4th, 2010 by ECM
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed.
Apr 3rd, 2010 by ECM
Peter and Cammy are up here for Easter, and we’re having a marvelous time!
