The other day, I noticed that I had a whole bunch of bright blue gunk on my car’s splashguard. It looked like really brightly colored silly string. Wierd. Wouldn’t come off, either. Later that afternoon, Chris is pumping gas, and I happen to look at the wall of the gas station: Bright GREEN silly string!!! […]

You know how when you hear a word you’ve never heard before, you then hear that word 5 more times in the same week? You know how you can sometimes manage to keep bumping into the same person in random places over and over (like the random woman that I saw at lunch on one […]

Ali is officially a one-nap-baby now. Naps had started to become a struggle a few weeks ago, and so while we were on our beach trip last week, I went ahead and swapped her her to one-nap days, since that is what AJ does, and also to try it out while it wasn’t critical (i.e. […]

My little fashionista insisted on wearing her sunglasses all day yesterday – indoors or out – because they were pretty, and even, according to her, “gujus” (gorgeous). These were also her official 18 months-on-the-day photos. For comparison, here she is, in the rocking chair, at 15 months.

My hand is this wierd shade of sickish green with a bit of purple mixed in (from all of the internal bleeding and bruising). But today, I have a new color – my pinkie knuckle is bright magenta! Just the knuckle. Odd. Ali and I ate lunch with a family with 5 kids – a […]

Ali turns 18 months tomorrow!!! She had her 18 month checkup and shot today, and she did great! Of course she cried for the shot, and oddly cried for having to sit on the scale, but other than that, she did great! She greeted Dr. Amy with a “Doctor Amy HEY!” and then when she […]

As far as I can tell, I still have AT LEAST a half dozen DAILY Eli-stalkers out there, and for your efforts, you definitely deserve new pictures!! We had a family dinner for the 4th at JC and Lindsay’s house. It was a lot of fun, and Eli was a doll. As far as his […]

Editor’s (Rachel’s) Note: I wrote this blog a week ago and have been agonizing over publishing it. I know it’s silly to agonize over a blog post – I’m paranoid about keeping my blog as G-Rated as possible. I just hate being offensive in any way. So what I finally decided to do is to […]

Ali will be 18 Months old on Tuesday, so we went ahead and did her portraits today. She did good!! Not as good as she did at a year old, but we had to wait a lot longer, and the cameraman didn’t exactly endear himself to her by picking her up from behind with no […]

We went to get Ali’s 18 month portraits + family portraits this morning! I will post a bunch later when I can get out of the chaotic-have-so-much-to-do-I-don’t-know-what-to-do-first mode that always comes the day after vacation. But here’s one of our favorites for now: