Mama Magic

March 29, 2012

Annie is a dyed-in-the-wool Daddy’s Girl (as I’ve mentioned several times), but right before her second birthday she started to warm up to me. She still calls for Mike during the occasional middle-of-the-night wake up (oh I am so heartbroken, she said sarcastically), but she has things she reliably goes to me for, and it’s [...]

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Times Are A-Changin’

March 28, 2012

I was thinking last night about the things that are going to be different for Annabel than they were for me when I was growing up. There is always one of those lists that goes around at the beginning of each year that names the different items that will soon be history, like VCRs, encyclopedias, [...]

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The Missing Link

March 27, 2012

The little girls have been so cute together on this vacation. a miraculous moment where they were both still Whenever they are apart, they ask for each other. It’s really cool to see them interacting, talking, figuring each other out. Kayla, let’s go night night I said yesterday that the girls follow Danny around like [...]

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The Hunger Games

March 22, 2012

It’s a very good thing Annabel has Mike as her daddy. He has what seems like endless amounts of patience for the things that drive me insane. This is why he is now in charge of meal time. I am officially tapping out. Annie used to be the best eater. Anything we put in front [...]

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It’s All Fun And Games Until You Break Your Child’s Brain

March 21, 2012

Maddie never had a security object, but Annie is attached to her blanket – her “wobble.” She imprinted on her blanket when she was six or seven months old…right when she gave up her pacifier, in fact, so I was pretty happy she had something else to soothe her that I wouldn’t eventually have to [...]

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Big Maddie

March 13, 2012

Today is my friend’s daughter’s sixth birthday. I was showing Annie pictures of Reilly through the years, much to her delight. She kept asking for more pictures of “Baby Reilly,” and after some time, “Big Reilly.” Eventually we started looking at pictures of Annie (one of Annie’s favorite things to do). We came upon a [...]

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