Poor Abigail has caught a summer cold. For once I got her sick, and not the other way around. Between the two of us we went through a pile of Kleenex and had a pretty miserable day. I feel extra guilty because her 15-month checkup was yesterday (25 pounds, 31 inches, for those of you [...]
Archive for May, 2009
you’ve got to leave the duck alone
Posted in family, photos, tagged abigail, motherhood on 05.27.2009 | 5 Comments »
…bring May flowers
Posted in family, photos, tagged abigail, motherhood on 05.21.2009 | 6 Comments »
Abigail is swiftly becoming obsessed with the computer. I often leave my laptop sitting on the couch when I’m not using it, and she will go stand right in front of it and
a) start dancing, indicating that she wants me to put on iTunes so she can jam;
b) say “Cin” or sometimes just “ssssss,” [...]
this post is entirely about dolls.
Posted in Uncategorized on 05.17.2009 | 7 Comments »
Okay? You’ve been warned.
My grandmother (who I love) has sent Abigail many lovely things – clothes and sippy cups and stuffed animals, and we are so grateful. She has also sent two dolls that I have thus far refused to give to Abby. One was blond and another was bald; both were blue-eyed. [...]
the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing
Posted in nature on 05.12.2009 | 2 Comments »
A ridiculous bird is building a nest in our butterfly bush. It seems like an altogether bad idea to me. The butterfly bush is not a nice sturdy tree, with strong branches way up high out of the reach of neighborhood cats; it’s maybe five feet tall, and that’s only because Dan hasn’t trimmed it [...]
literary love
Posted in literature, movies, tagged movies, reading on 05.7.2009 | 14 Comments »
Abigail and I watched disc two of the BBC Pride and Prejudice yesterday, skipping around for “the good parts” – by which I mean “the parts where Colin Firth looks the most smoldery.” Everyone always talks about the lake scene at Pemberley, and, you know, it is pretty great, but I also love when he [...]
maybe it’s better than Meryton
Posted in movies, tagged movies, you know the time I met Colin Firth on 05.2.2009 | 8 Comments »
I’ve avoided updating because, let’s face it, nothing could ever top the Colin Firth story – in fact, I seriously considered never blogging again, and just leaving the entry up there in perpetuity as my great swan song – but then I spotted this article today, and it made me laugh. Specifically, this part:
Firth, after [...]
