January 27, 2009
That’s how many words my son has at 20 months! Someone asked me how many words he had….and I just started recording yesterday morning at breakfast as he was saying things….and kept adding through the day. If you care…..
cup
coffee
sausage
all-done
Ali (you can ask him a friend and he can name their spouse)
Nick
Eileen
Pete
Amanda
Sam
Anthony
Josh
Steve
Sandy
Ruth
Kurt
Laura
Jack
Paul
Bacho
Grapa
Grama
Nia
Dan
Sasha
Cookie
Milk
Wa(ffle)
Kiera
Hol(ly)
Gal(ly)
Kate
Mike
Sheila
Hi
Bye-bye
Bath
truck
Elmo
Grove(r)
More, please
Dog
roof
cow
moo
muff(in)
Sara
Ben
jump
coat
socks
shoes
towel
spoon
fork
knife
cereal
fish
smash
boots
toot
poo
gel
hair
eyes
ear
nose
butter
on
off
graham (cracker)
go
Big bird
pop
mop
top
amen!
Jess
banana
momma
dadday
help
phone
Soph(ia)
Trin
Dave
Again
up
down
yep
nap
camel
pen
night-night
shower
shut
cook
clean-up!
tent
fan
light
ham(mer)
cheese
tar(guitar)
okay
uh-oh
Em(ily)
yeah
at work
chick
oragne
apple
lamp
cracker
pretzel
stack
lawnmower
cap
shovel
January 24, 2009
My friend Abe recently got married. We’ve been friends for years and I thought a painting would be fitting. He’s tall and so is his lovely bride. I wanted to give them something special and handmade and that had a hint of them in it. These leggy birds did the trick…
January 22, 2009
We had our first flight on snow 2 weekends ago. Robby reaction? Indifference. He seemed to neither enjoy nor despise the sled-riding (as you Cinci folk say) but just went along with it. We have 2 (count em!) hills for us to go on and this one seemed to have at least 200 kids on it at once. It was crazy. Here’s a sweet smirk during the day…
January 16, 2009
Never heard of steampunk? Me neither. Look it up. It’s hip or something.
http://steampunkworkshop.com/lcd.shtml
In our world – we just steampunked our TV. We finally shoved our big tubed TV in our fireplace (after removing the fake wood from the gas fireplace) since football play-off time is now. But we didn’t want it to be the center of all conversation, attention or feng shui. So Rob rigged up some copper-pipes and I sewed some fabric and shizam!
Steampunky.
January 13, 2009
So….the days can get long, right? Anyone with me? He’s up at 7:30 and down for a 1-3 nap. 5 hours open for fun. Then Daddy doesn’t get home until 6pm. Another 3 hours. And it’s winter. What do you do with your 19 month old?
-Library, errands, playing, making stuff, play-dates…..
Here’s our mobile we made for above his bed on a very snowy, cold afternoon. He colored on the lion which was a really nice touch. Would love your ideas…..
January 12, 2009
One of Robby’s favorite moves is strutting his stuff in “Daddy’s Boos” after he goes to work. This has become a regular toy and many minutes of entertainment. You can see he wants to be just like dad already.
January 3, 2009
It’s all over.
The parties. The lights. The common “Merry Christmas” everywhere you go. The anticipation. The Birth. The goat cheese, popcorn and eggnog. The Over the Rhine Christmas show (details to come). The traveling.
I ran across this photo as I was cataloguing this Christmas season. Let’s always be festive. Want to? Me too.
Good thing my hope is bigger than this. Else I’d be sunk for February.
January 1, 2009
Whew! We feel like we just stepped off a long train ride this Christmas. We traveled to Cincinnati, had Christmas and a funeral (Aunt Peggy Seiffert) and then kept traveling on to Indianapolis for the annual Christmas Conference with 2000 college students. What a ride. And we still have Toledo Christmas to go.
But we walked in the door and Robby wanted us to set up his train in front of the Christmas tree. It was one of those moments every dad dreams of with his son; the excitement, the oooh’s and ahhhh’s from Robby and the tree in the background made my husband teary as we soaked in the scene.
Happy New Year. May it be full of new life, redemption and a thawing of the chilled places of the heart.
