I am reluctantly about to embark on our second course of potty training. Around May we made some serious attempts with some serious progress. Katelyn got to the point where she was dry for several days in a row. Clean was an entirely different story. After two straight weeks in undies and two straight weeks…
Have I mentioned this girl keeps us on our toes? We are soon to hit her first birthday. FIRST BIRTHDAY. Weird. It’s funny to me how much more relaxed I am with Abby compared to katelyn as a baby. I remember when we traveled with katelyn there were so many eating and sleeping ideas that…
With the little I’ve seen of this country, they seem to have a few things figured out that the US just doesn’t. Some seem to be general European things. Like their genius idea to instal shower heads on a hose with accompanying adjustable height mounting. Pure genius. For years devin and I have had a…
I suppose making the announcement exclusively via Facebook wasn’t quite enough. So, here are the specs. We are in London. West London, in a spiffy little place called Ealing. Devin is on his last of four rotations before he decides/applies for a permanent team at Apple. The assignment is for six months and we have…
Though our apartment is “fully furnished” we realized we needed a trip to some store that would provide a few items that we desired. Like something besides a super thick comforter to sleep under. So we checked out the bus routes and loaded up the girls for a trip to Ikea. We ended up with…
It was a long road getting here, in more ways than one. We’d been working on the idea for nearly a year. I can’t even count how many moments of excitement, then disappointment, then pure insanity we went through. It wasn’t until about two weeks before we left that everything finally came together and it…
Oh, our little Abby-Abbers. Here is the promised, though delayed, update. (Click on pictures to see enlarged). She tries my patience, that’s for sure. This girl is a little lady of long, drawn out processes. For example, Katelyn went from sitting to crawling in about three days. Abby, on the other hand, has been army…
Where does the time go? I was just checking the blog, thinking I only missed month 6 but I guess I missed 5, too. Sorry about that. I guess I thought Facebook was good enough. Just for comparison… Abby at 5 months: Abby at 6 months: And now for an overall update. Seven months old….
Christmas morning Abby was kind enough to let us sleep until 6am. Katelyn then came into our room at 6:40. And off we went to open presents. So in our Christmas jammies we had a party. Here are probably too many pictures to show you our morning. Let me just say, Devin gave me…
Katelyn was itching to open presents. But of course, Abby pulled an “I’m down for the night” at 4:30 for the second day in a row. So I tried to distract her by making her sit and stare at the tree and presents while I took pictures. Then she pulled a classic Katelyn move and…