The Meandering Way of Parenthood: Can Somebody Get Me A Flashlight?
mom, she has finally (of her own volition) worn the tutu you bought her!!
jasper brought it to jon today to help her get into it… and then she started dancing…
can’t you just hear her singing?
now she has gone from native american dancer to little purple tooth fairy… she is whistling at the dogs to come [...]
jasper lilith is busy looking at photos of her grandparents and having a great time doing it, apparantly!
“gam and pop!!!” “nena and wichad!!” “paw-paw and mimi!”
barbara, she heard another little girl in the grocery store say, “mimi” and when she went home, she dug around for some pictures of you and dad
i [...]
arnetta, jon finally uploaded his pictures from his camera and i found this one in the bunch…
it is kind of fuzzy but still rather special…
here you two are reassuring each other in pops hospital room…
and a blue-eyed girl at the playground!
can we ever get enough of the zoo? not in texas when the weather is beautiful and balmy at a high of 65 degrees today!
the worst thing about texas? the 4 months of sweltering summer… the best thing about texas? the other 8 months… you will catch me wishing it would get cold enough to [...]
leigh’s kieran and my jasper caught in headlights… kieran is making sure that jasper lilith is properly entertained while visiting…
ladies, i think if it is up to duncan and kieran, jasper will be 30 before she ever watches a movie over pg-13! (the two boys are both very, very, very (very) conscientious of what movies [...]
jasper lilith learned quickly that mocker was off limits while she was healing from her “bo-bo”…
mocker is completely healed now but jasper has remained very gentle with her and won’t roughhouse with mocker like she does with roan…
roan, after all, is fair game and jasper loves on him like he is her very own… which [...]
“when ez daddee home? nighttime? ok, i wead books waiting!”
so after asking me (for the millionth time) where her daddy was, she went and gathered some books, climbed on top of her stool and starting reading… like when she was done, he would be home… oh, i wish it was that easy, sugar booger!
jon has [...]
duncan was sweet enough to pass on his little drum set to jasper lilith and let me tell you, it has been a hit!! (pun unfortunately intended)
i suspect that jasper has coveted this drum set since she first saw it at heathers house but jon was rather unenthusiastic about it due to the noise factor… [...]
jasper lilith likes to clamor up and over the fire hydrant in our front yard and once she has straddled the thing, she likes to sing in her own jasper-language at the top of her lungs…
it is her Look At Me Sitting On The Fire Hydrant Ballad…
i happened to catch it in a video and [...]
it was a gorgeous spring day at 74 degrees… in february…
all of our windows are wide open, my curtains are blowing and my house smells fresh and like sweet olives… because yay!! my sweet olive bush is blooming like crazy!!! and if you don’t know what a sweet olive flower smells like, just imagine the [...]
