A poem, for Kenny: Kenny loves to pick his nose. He does it with relish; With gusto. He does it in the morning, noontime & bedtime; In private, in public, At church and at play. In the car, near and far: He’s my nose-picking star! And he doesn’t stop until He fishes […]
Tonight Casey and I started talking to Kenny a little more specifically about what’s going to happen when this baby decides to make an entrance. Here’s the “story” we told him: One of these days in the next few weeks, Mommy will be walking along, or sleeping, or eating or playing, and I will […]
Friday night Casey and I went out for our last big HURRAH: we drove a couple hours south to see Sugarland in concert! It’s our third time to see them live, and we decided that this might make us groupies. The concert was awesome. It was a smaller venue (maybe 8,000 seats?), […]
At my OB visit today (those funny 5-minute deals they drag you in for every week at this point… really… is the thirty-minute round trip drive worth it??), I was declared, “Still doing well.” The good doctor confirmed the positives of my “pelvic architecture” and made the prediction that I would do “very well” […]
As I’m sure anyone reading this who has ever been pregnant before has experienced, I find that as I walk around in my third trimester, everyone has a question to ask, and a comment or prediction to offer. I am pleased (vainly) to report that 90% of people who ask my due date respond […]
The day starts with some coffee and chocolate milk on the deck… Then Daddy and Kenny take off for their weekly breakfast date while Mommy hits prenatal yoga… Close encounters of the reptile kind (click on this for a better view – a four foot black rat snake that we first saw right on the […]
As tends to be the trend in our house, a manic day with Kenny is often immediately followed by one of the sweetest days ever. Perhaps part tender effort from me to be extra-nurturing, part concentrated effort on the rascal’s part to be less rascally… whatever the cause, it works. We had a companionable […]
Yesterday Kenny woke up with a little gunk in his left eye. By noon it was fervently pink, and by the time he woke up from his nap, both eyes were completely glued shut with yellow and green ick. He started screaming and I ran upstairs, my stomach in my throat. It […]
This weekend Casey’s older brother Dan and his son Ryan came to visit. It was non-stop fishing, crabbing, basketball, baseball and fun. Kenny, who thinks the sun rises and sets on 8-year-old Ryan, became his shadow. He was alternately sweetly shy (as in, “You wanna bite of this cracker, Ryan?”) to charmingly […]
Last night I made tacos for dinner. This is not remarkable (except for the fact that I can count on my fingers the number of times I’ve made something from a box for dinner instead of something from scratch…) and shouldn’t hold any interest for blogging purposes. Unfortunately, there is a story. About […]