It’s About Time!

June 8, 2011

We have been waiting. And waiting. To shake off the dreary grey skies and slight chill in the air and replace them with sunshine we can bask in. Better yet, play in! We finally got some this past weekend. It brightened up the street fair Saturday, and Sunday, it gave us the perfect reason to [...]

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Lemonade!

June 5, 2011

Yesterday Violet’s school put on its annual rummage sale and street fair. We fared much better than last year . . . when it snowed on everyone who attended. Lesson learned, the date was pushed back a week or two this time around, and the weather was perfect! The street fair featured live music and [...]

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Coming Soon

May 31, 2011

Violet’s took part in her first ballet recital this past Saturday! We got started in ballet this past October, at her insistence, and it has been so much fun to watch her absorb it. The recital was as adorable as anyone would expect, and I hope to get many more photos and a video of [...]

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Singing in Spanish

May 29, 2011

Violet’s class has a Spanish teacher, Emily, who comes for a little lesson every day. She’s made enough of an impression that Violet cites her as one of her favorite teachers. It’s so much fun to see Violet getting comfortable with the concept of another language. I don’t think we realized how comfortable until one [...]

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Lessons Learned

May 27, 2011

I’ve got a lot of catching up to do! I can’t believe I’ve gone so long without posting anything here. Thank goodness for Ruby’s 365 – if it weren’t for that, I might wonder what happened to us the past several months. So what did happen? Life. Work – including Eric’s third trial; some pretty [...]

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Daddy’s Girl

February 15, 2011

We took Violet up for her second day skiing this weekend. I’ve got lots of photos of the first day, and just as many from Sunday, but not enough time to wade through and edit any of them yet. I’ll save the full story for a day when I can better illustrate it with images, [...]

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Tiny Dancer

February 3, 2011

Violet began taking ballet classes last October. We go every Wednesday, and she looks forward to it all week long. But the ballet never ends when we walk out of the studio – she twirls through the kitchen and leaps through the living room all.the.time at home. She’s also been known to stage her own [...]

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365 Days of Ruby!

January 24, 2011

On Violet’ first birthday, I launched a year-long effort to take (and share) at least one photo of her every day, for one year. The endeavor made me crazy more than a few times throughout those 365 days, and Eric probably- almost certainly – more often than me. But it was worth it. By the [...]

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Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby!!!

January 20, 2011

One year ago today, Ruby surprised us all with her dramatic and earlier-than-expected entrance into the world. And she continues to surprise us, every day. Our Rubes is an endless source of smiles, and we couldn’t adore her more. She also hasn’t lost her flair for drama, as evidenced by her first encounter with cake. [...]

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Adventures in Spoonfeeding

January 11, 2011

When Violet was a baby, we skipped baby food/purees and gave her the real thing from the get-go. We did the same for Ruby, and she is proving to be as voracious and varied an eater as her big sister was at this age. So she hasn’t had much experience with spoons. But this past [...]

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