Nat in the Hat

Hat love.

7/21/2012

Rainy Sunday

7/15/2012

Popsicle Chronicles

She tried a popsicle. And liked it.

7/1/2012

7/1/2012

7/1/2012

7/1/2012

Cheese Fries, Again

6/15/2012

Aaron had to work out of town for more than a week. Natalie was thrilled to get him back. Here we are at Snuffer's again.

New Cousin, New Nephew

5/24/2012, Aaron and baby Cowan a day after he was born

Here's Aaron with our new nephew, baby Cowan. He's adorable. And even though he looks tiny here, he was almost 9 pounds.

Gardening

5/1/2012

I went out of town. For a week.

Here are some of my writing-retreat friends debating the wine purchase, or getting off topic in some way. We'd landed in Minnesota on a Sunday and had to drive to Wisconsin for wine, since Minnesota has some serious blue laws and we were not going to have tea for our opening toast.

3/25/2012

Here was the lovely room I shared with my friend, Miriam, at The Anderson Center:

3/31/2012

Aaron did a great job taking care of Natalie. He had some daytime help from my mom, his sister and Megan, but I'm pretty sure he got up with the baby once every night. Natalie did just fine. Megan made it to all her piano lessons and did her homework. And Aaron was really tired and happy when I returned.

Aaron's March Madness

He did get to watch some basketball.

3/22/2012

3/24/2012

Spring Break

We went to Florida for Spring Break. Natalie was kind of grumpy and sick-ish for much of it, but she enjoyed the sand and the water and extended family -- though not the plane ride, at least not the part of the plane ride where she had to stay in her car seat. Oh, that would be all of it. Her sister helped avert a huge airplane baby melt-down by distracting Natalie with her phone, usually off-limits to babyfolk, and other antics.

I was too tired (Natalie didn't sleep much on vacation) to take photos. Natalie's Uncle Joe took all of these except the bottom one.

3/2012 Squirming. (Photo by Uncle Joe)

3/2012 Swimming sisters. (Photo by Uncle Joe)

3/2012 So typical of Megan. (Photo by Uncle Joe)

3/14/2012 at The Outlet, our favorite breakfast spot

Moving into March

3/1/2012

2/28/2012

Day 365

Helping Daddy 

Sister doing homework, 2/23/2012

Day 354

She can drink from a straw. (Maybe that's some

kind of redneck milestone, but we're OK with that.)

2/12/2012

Day 316: Bedtime Faces

1/6/2012

Day 313

1/2/2012

Day 304: Ten Months Old

Bottle? Check.
Blankie? Check.
Naptime. Shhhhhhhhhh ... 

12/24/2011

Day 300

I am not given to using exclamation points, but I thought about putting one after the 300 in the title. I mean, it's day 300! There, I did it.

12/19/2011



Day 283

Here's one huge thing that makes me really happy: Natalie adores Aaron. At first, she gave him more than his fair share of grief, strictly because he couldn't produce milk. But all that's in the past now. See here? See that look on her face? That's her daddy. She's holding on.

12/2/2011

Day 278

Wearing (briefly) her daddy's old baby hat:

11/27/2011

Day 226

10/7/2011

Day 221

10/2/2011