Souvenir

  

Our best entertainment of the summer, AKA: How to open a coconut...




 ...nope.
Maybe this?

 

Or this.

     

What if we daintily toss a rock at it?

Yes, he really is that sweet and helpful with his little sister (most of the time).

Darn. Now what?

Try jumping again, Nora.

  

What would you do, Mommy? (They so seldom ask this that it bears documenting when it does happen.)

For the record, I then called my mom to ask her how to do it.

An hour and 48 minutes later (seriously)...

 Thanks, Grandma & Grandpa!

P.S. The following photo documents P&N's relationship perfectly: him helpful and encouraging, her stubborn and indifferent. He really is a patient kid to put up with his little sister's bossy, hardheaded ways. (The black eye is par for the course for our tiny wrecking ball as well...maybe I should be grateful for that hard head.)

My Stolen Heart

When Nora was a few months old, I snapped a bunch of pics, one after another, that together showed her personality perfectly. I loved them and had big plans to create a two-page spread in her baby photo book, one photo after another, but two-and-a-half years later when I finally got around to said baby book, a year's worth of baby pictures and the per page charge for the book forced me to pick a favorite and discard the rest to fit everything else in that I loved about my little gal when she was two months old.

I sure hope luck is on my side with page counts in the 2012 family photo book, because I don't think I can choose a favorite of these...perfectly Porter, my sweet little man (don't mind the red popsicle teeth).

 

  

Just Quiet

Please forgive the lapse in posts, and thanks to those of you who have checked in with me, given the lapse in e-chatter.

The short answer:

I spend equal parts of my day with one of two thoughts running through my head—How is this my life? and Babies aside, I love my life. I have no idea how to reconcile these two very conflicting emotions in my own heart, let alone in print for all the world to read. So for now: just quiet but just fine, thanks.


Meanwhile, for those of you who are only in it for the cute kiddie mugs, first day of first grade photos without the witty mom-mentary will be up soon...