Things {Japanese Magnolia & Camelia} are in bloom here. BLOOM.
Our next adventure has begun.
We left the snow-filled city for this sunshine-filled town. We’ve been on countless walks (with short sleeves and flops!) around the neighborhood and to the park. And even a trip to explore our beach! In January! It’s almost confusing, all this warmth and sunshine.
I have no idea what I’m going to do with all of my (mostly cold-weather-appropriate) clothes.
Poor Millie caught a pretty nasty cold/cough upon our arrival. Even with all of this extra Vitamin D exposure, it’s still wreaking havoc on her little body. She has her first fever and first real cough cough (she’s been using an occasional fake cough for months). Sick babies are the saddest!
So here we are. Getting settled(ish) and trying to get healthy as we wait for the truck filled with all of our earthly possessions to arrive. Anxious to spread our roots and make this bright spot our home.
“You can’t have an adventure without leaving something behind.”
~BJN
Little old lady.
22 months.
-look at that belly! (eating nonstop this past month—major growth spurt)
-she continues to love “putting in/taking out/pouring into” games…so I’ve been making some of our own (jingle bells&glass jar seen here)
-taking care of animals/babies is big these days (feeding, rocking, putting to bed)
-lots of travel this past month (she has a love/hate relationship with the car, or “jeep” as daddy taught her to say)
-peels her own clementines/”oranges”
-sleeps with many friends and blankeys (not obsessed but getting there)
-starting to enjoy getting comfy on the couch—we don’t mind this one bit. Although she only sits still for 2.2.
So much going on in our little corner of the world. Big changes. A whole new world opening before us.
Forward, always forward.
Little light of my life.
Breaking in her new headphones from
Uncle Math. {Merry Wishes!}
First {real} snow of the season!
Some things:
• This morning Millie found these (still too big) shoes under her dresser and insisted on wearing them. She ran up and down the hall yelling and then insisted I take them off. Why would I buy shoes with laces for a toddler?
• Lately she’s been interested in trying and even eating new things. I can’t explain how exciting this is to me. Meal time has always been hit or miss in our house so watching her eat everything on her plate and then ask for more and using actual words to tell me what she wants (rice! Hum! (for hummus) gapes! (grapes)) is making my life right now. LIFE!
• There are a couple of little girls at the gym that are OBSESSED with the little. It’s real cute. But today they asked me if they could BUY her. Um, not for sale.
• She is talking so much lately and it’s just so fun to hear her little voice. I can’t always understand what she’s trying to say at first but she usually does a good job of explaining it to her old mummy (what she calls me these days).
• I cannot believe that we’re sitting here mid-December and knocking on the door of 2012. Exciting and scary and dudes time is flying!
My little elf.
