Entries from October 2007

October 31, 2007

Nina the Cat

Its Halloween.  Nina’s big day at daddy’s office trick or treating. Weeks ago I found her a lady bug costume, very sweet. We have all been looking forward to seeing her in her Halloween glory.
Kids just sometimes don’t have the same plans as we do.
Nina decided that her lady bug costume was a pariah and that [...]

October 18, 2007

You know you are low on progesterone when…..

Anyway!
Today Nina waved for the first time! We were ibn line to buy some christmas lights and the checker waved ans said hi! She waved back. They did it twice It was so cool!

October 16, 2007

Can a baby be a good sport?

Ok, my five month old daughter is an angel, given. But really, she is such an agreeable baby I’m still a little shocked. When I say that she hardly ever cries I mean it. She rarely cries. Now, she is not an introverted unresponsive baby. You can’t chalk her lack of fuss up to general [...]

October 14, 2007

The Canter? Its all about confidence.

On the most perfect fall day (yesterday) I went out to the barn to work with my horses. I knew that I would ride Clyde for sure. Casper I wasn’t too sure about. My broken toe is still healing and I’m not quite confident with it yet. With Casper I want to fell physically 100%.
Teddy said that he was [...]

October 14, 2007

Stark Raving Spoiled

I feel so blessed every morning when I wake up. I never believed that life could be like this. Rather than a land of plenty, I grew up believing that strife was the status quo. A wise woman once told me that strife is not human design, that we are by design meant for love, [...]

October 11, 2007

She is the remedy

My Daughter Roo is a little sprite! She smiled ALL DAY today. We sang songs, danced and read and giggled the day away. We played a lot of Peek a boo and she was literally shaking with laughter. When people ask me how I am I always say,” I’m amazing! How couldn’t I be with this little [...]

October 9, 2007

Tough day

We drove back from Oregon early this morning to get ready for the funeral.  Nina was just perfect on the drive back. in fact she didn’t even cry once today. She is a sweet baby.
It was a hard day. It was good to see Bryn’s family and see how much he was cherished by friends [...]

October 7, 2007

Dear, Dear Bryn

I’m here in Cannon beach. We are staying at  the Surf Sand resort. Its beautiful and the town is very quiet. Nina has been perfect- in the car down as well as all night.  We are in a state of shock however and none of these things are in the fore front as we received [...]

October 6, 2007

a laugh a minute

Nina is growing so fast! She is such a little bundle of love and joy. She has actually started to flip the pages of her book “thats not my pony” 5 months old! (Oh, Happy birthday Nina it is you are officially 5 months old today)
The current games that are a big hit are:
Up she [...]

October 6, 2007

Surprise!

At 4:45 today Teddy called and said that my mother in law was on the way to watch the baby so I could go out to see the horses since its such beautiful day and I haven’t been able to get out because he has been working so much. ( He watches the baby while I [...]