Day 248

Natalie has a cold, thus the rosy cheeks and extra drool. And she's changed her mind about sleeping through the night.

10/29/2011

Day 247: Spooky Nat

Megan took this photo and spookified it with some kind of photo app.



Photo by Megan, summer 2011, edited





Day 245

Ollie is all over Megan when she gets home from school.

10/26/2011

Oops, I forgot this one: Day 237

10/18/2011

Excuses, Excuses

Or: why we haven't posted in almost three months.

1. We moved: out of a house, out of a condo, out of my mom's house, out of a warehouse, into a house.
2. The heat. It was really hot this summer. We got kind of depressed about that.
3. Our computer was homeless for a while. It lived in a box.
4. Lack of sleep.
5. Not enough shut-eye.
6. And finally: an extremely wakeful baby whose frequent night-time feasts left me unmotivated, unproductive, and eventually distraught.

It's no coincidence that I'm updating this blog only after Natalie has, against her wishes and not according to her baby plans, started sleeping through the night (sort of, most nights). This involved the reading, by me, of a book called Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, the same book I read and put into practice when Megan was eight months old.

So yeah, I bought that book twice. But it worked. At least, mostly. (I just now had to go in and pat her little bottom back to sleep, same as I did last night. Clearly, I need to reread some chapters.)

Day 244: Eight months (plus one day) old

Natalie has been doing this crazy backstroke-splashing thing each night in the tub. She gets really serious about it. See for yourself.

Day 239

10/20/2011

Day 233



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Postscript: Today, another baby would have turned 15. Hard to believe.

Day 230

Seems like every photo used to look like this: Nat, sleeping. Now, not so much.

10/11/2011

Day 226

10/7/2011

Day 221

10/2/2011

Day 220

10/1/2011

Day 219

9/30/2011

Day 218

Megan's first cross-country meet (9/29/2011)

Day 216

9/27/2011

Day 213: Seven months old

She can pick up a Cheerio. She can scoot on her belly, too. And sit up pretty well. And maybe it's an accident, but she sometimes says Mama when she's crying.

9/24/2011

Day 211

9/22/2011

Day 209

I forgot to mention the kitten. Somewhere in here, very soon after we moved in, Aaron brought Megan the kitten. She named him Ollie. He's kind of a spaz, but we think he'll fit in nicely. In the mornings, Aaron wads up a page of the newspaper and throws it across the room; Ollie fetches, then brings the paper ball back -- to Natalie, of all people. We have to keep an eye on those two.

9/20/2011

Speaking of cats, this one apparently came with our house. She is declawed and seems desperate for a good indoor home. Any takers? (Our local animal shelter's cat section is currently full.)

Adopt me.

Day 208

9/19/2011

Day 206

9/17/2011

Day 205

First time for cousins' sleep-over (9/16/2011)

Day 202

9/13/2011

Day 201

9/12/2011

Day 200

9/11/2011

Day 198

Before:

9/9/2011

After:

9/9/2011

Somewhere in between:

This is a special face she saves for her sister.
Photo by Megan (9/9/2011)

Day 197

9/8/2011

Day 193

9/4/2011

Day 192

9/3/2011

Day 191

9/2/2011

Day 186

8/28/2011

Day 183: Six months (plus one day) old

8/25/2011

Day 181: Eighth Grade, Day One

8/23/2011

Day 178

8/20/2011

Day 175



Here we are at FedEx/Kinko's after closing (so we thought) on our new house. Turned out, our lender still needed just one more eensy-weensy copy of some-odd statement, he informed us quietly on the way out the door. But all turned out well. We got our house. We moved. We are thankful.

8/17/2011

Day 171: Road Trip

We drove to Burnet to pick up Megan from camp. As evident in the photos, Natalie got a warm welcome from Megan's cabinmates, but she did not enjoy the ride home.

8/13/2011

Day 166

8/8/2011

Day 165

8/7/2011

Day 164



8/6/2011