We went camping this weekend....

We had a fun time! Details soon....

Whirlwind

This last year has whizzed by so quickly, we have barely had time to write about it.

Our baby Imogen is celebrating her first birthday! Happy happy birthday!

She is such a little ray of sunshine - every day she makes us laugh. She is such a joy.

[Seriously, she loves to crack jokes. It is hilarious!]

And she has the loveliest big sister, who likes to share her dinner with her little sister (one teeny tiny crumb at a time).

Happy birthday, Grandma

October 2009

June 2012

We look forward to hanging out with you again soon!

Love, 

Paloma and Imogen

suitcase

Paloma is packed and ready to go to Australia.

See you soon, Australia!

Princess Ballerina

Paloma has dance class once a week at school, and I think she really likes it. 

There is a performance coming up at the end of term, so I rushed out and bought her a ballet leotard. 

I don't know who was more excited, me or Paloma...

sanity

Enough is enough.

Howard and I finally reached a tipping point.

The accumulation of daily dishes was getting too much. There was always a pile of clean dishes in the sink, and ones waiting to be washed on the counter. The kitchen is so small and it was taking all evening to get through all of the lunch boxes and baby bottles.

[It was kind of a relief when the pipes froze a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't do dishes.]

So, we finally did it: we bought a dishwasher.

Big Bad Bosch arrived on Monday and was installed Monday night.

Paloma was really helpful during the installation. She held the flashlight (sic) for Papa and helped him to get into all those hard-to-reach places.

As they were working together, Howard turned to me and said, "Now I understand why we had children!"

Funny thing is, I thought we had them to do the dishes for us....

sweet Valentine

Happy Valentine's Day!

Paloma's school likes to celebrate all of the holidays (sic). Today, they had a party at lunchtime and then exchanged Valentine's gifts after nap time.

[In my day, I was lucky to get a note scrawled on a bit of scrap paper, but things have changed since then.]

Most of the gifts involved (a) something pink and (b) sugar, and lots of it.

Paloma was pretty darn happy on both counts.

Say cheese!

Look at all that loot!

Fortunately, I was able to defer some of it for a while and convince her that we should save some of those treats to take to Australia...