henry said ‘STOP SAYING WORDS TO ME’ to us this week and we both fell out laughing. i’m sure we’d been yacking about somesuch don’t squash your sister while she tries to crawl or steal rocks off the playground at school and hoard them in your short pockets and then in turn, ruin the washing …

ok. so a while back (the 13th) anna hit the 7 month mark. so i’m just finally getting around to posting about that. also, back at her 6 month checkup, i forgot to record this for posterity- she weighed 19# 6oz and was 27″ long. she’s at about the 90th % for those. her head …

i’m working on a post about bringing children up in this sad, hard world (for your reading pleasure. you’re all very welcome). about all the fears and worries that keep me up at night. about all the real things that go bump in the night. (recently most especially as they pertain to women and my …

1. the pickup line i got tonight from my A for effort husband: ‘so, just HOW exhausted are you?’ (winkwink) and while i was trying to come up with sly retort, i fell asleep. 2. at the beach this weekend, the baby ate roughly 1 1/2 cups of sand. and i just don’t even care …