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OK, I have not blogged much lately in part because 2 kids makes you busy!
Also, I’ve found some other ways to stay connected.
If you are on Facebook - look for me. If you can’t find me - drop me a line here in comments and I’ll try to find you. If you’ve been resistant to join - I encourage you to take the dive. It’s more secure than MySpace and way easier to use. I’d love to hear from ya’ll!
Blessings!
Posted on April 10th, 2009 by admin
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I kindof cut short last night’s post because I was running out of battery power and left my cord at work. Here are a few more shots of the girls.
This is just a plain old great shot!
CJ uses her fork quite well these days.
She kept doing this because it made all of us crack up.
We have an maple tree that reaches almost to the deck - which makes for some good birdwatching. In almost 10 years at the house - this is the first blue-bird we’ve seen. Someone gave us a bluebird house back then, but it’s only been used by chickadees, mockingbirds, and some other vermin. Not this year!
Sock removal skills - a right of passage for all children.
CJ - the piano teacher - they really do get along most of the time without issue. Last night Carmen was having a little trouble as she tried to monopolize a couple of toys, but eventually got past it. Neither slept well the night before and were a little grumpy. Still - I’m glad they interact so well and that Carmen talks endearingly of Bebe and Bebe follows Carmen around. I was worried there would be mere “acceptance” rather than embracing.
Posted on March 11th, 2009 by admin
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Phew - what a crazy couple of weeks months! I just realized I had not blogged in forever, so rather than try to put together any complex thoughts, I’m going to just give ya’ll an update.
Baby M has completed her transition to our home. I say completed only in the physical sense as we are still adjusting to having a second little girl under the age of 2 and she’s still adjusting to our family as well. She stayed overnight a couple of weekends in a row and moved in about 10 days ago.
Here are the girls preparing for lunch!
CJ calls M “Bebe” and it’s just so sweet that I think that’s how I’ll refer to her here. I have a blogger friend who used Baby and Girlie for her kids until recently, so there’s a precedent for this. They love to play with magnet letters, of which Carmen knows about 12. Her language has exploded over the last couple of months and the addition of Bebe hasn’t hindered that one bit. She knows well over 100, maybe 150 words now and is starting to put together 3 word sentences.
Of course, the toughest part of transition has been sleeping. She slept perfectly well during visits, but has had trouble every other night since moving in. Every kid is different in terms of what techniques work to help them get to sleep, but this is not Bebe’s problem - she’s more of a wake in the middle of the night kid. In fact, she zonks out at the snap of a finger, as you can see below what was supposed to be lunch.
That’s it for now. More updates to come. Please pray for our continued transition and settling in!
Posted on March 10th, 2009 by admin
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Not quite in a position to post pictures of M yet, but I can’t resist this one…
It shows how much smaller she is than CJ - she makes her look huge and CJ makes her seem even tinier. It also shows you how long Carmen’s hair is, and how cute M’s little head of curls is.
Posted on February 9th, 2009 by admin
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Well - long story short (seems to be normal lately) - our trip in late March has been scaled back. It is a business trip on which I had planned to bring CJ and the Red Head. However, with budgetary issues at work, my boss tells me to go, but scale back as much as I can. This means no rental car, smaller room, no extra days in the desert. So, it’s just not worth taking the family and I don’t want to have to spend the extra moola to make it work out either. We had been apprensive anyway because while Carmen is a pretty well behaved toddler, she’s at the point where there’s no way she’s interested in being confined to a tiny airplane seat lap for several hours. I’d do it if we had to, or if we had some grand vacation planned, but for this - it’s just not worth the hassle.
So…………..
That means the the ever adorable M will be transitioning a little bit more quickly than we originally planned. While a transition is still critical, we don’t have to drag it out either. We’re insanely excited, and I think Carmen is really starting to warm up to the idea. We’ll have her overnight next weekend - so please pray for her and us that things go smoothly. The kid’s been through a lot, so this needs to go well for her sake.
Posted on February 5th, 2009 by admin
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