She’s started to say “I fall.” Sometimes she says it before she drops to the ground, which is really cute. She also says “fall” when she or anyone else drops something. While watching football, Dom has taught her...
My niece, Chiara, had a party yesterday to celebrate her fifth birthday. We met up with her family and a few other families, mostly from the Catholic homeschooling group, at Chuck E. Cheese for pizza, games, and cake and ice cream. Bella had fun...
On Wednesday and Thursday mornings Bella and I braved the damp and took some lovely walks around the neighborhood. She only protested a little when I put the rain cover on the stroller. I collected colorful leaves as they caught my eye and handed...
I don’t remember having them this early with Bella. Then again, with her it took me some time before I even figured out what they were. They don’t really feel like what I thought contractions would feel like and it took a direct question...
Tonight for the third or fourth time Isabella went to bed without nursing and without even asking to nurse. She had a very difficult time falling asleep early on. Even in the hospital everyone noted how alert she always was. She hardly slept at all...
Finally got out of the house today. We met with some friends we haven’t seen in a long time and had a nice dinner at a cute brew pub in Waltham. Traffic was really light so we got there early and took a little walk down to the river and then...
A while back we were having a pretty serious discussion about the merits and possible problematic elements of Halloween. Today I found this funny blog entry and thought I’d pass it along as a different point of view from any that was expressed...
Sung by the Benedictine monks of Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon.
via Historical Christian
I think it’s official. Not allergies but a cold or some other nasty thing. I was up at 3:45 again this morning, didn’t get back to bed till after 6. I got a great deal of reading in, though. The nice thing was Bella slept until 9:15, a...
