Yesterday, Karin was rooting around in the girl’s mouth and discovered clear evidence of a lower incisor poking through soft gum. Yes, Claire is now officially teething. And she doesn’t seem too upset by the ordeal. Yet.
Good thing we’ve got a dental plan. (Whatever.)
I celebrated by having five yards of gravel dumped [...]

… scrunches her face with pursed lips while laughing through her nose at everything.
… uses her forehead to press the buttons on her toys.
… responds with shrieks of delight at the sight of outstretched arms ready to lift.
… grins a wide, toothless smile each time she sees me again.
… spits out food she doesn’t really [...]

1) May is the month when most (if not all) traces of snow are gone for the season. This year it has been a little tricky to tell for certain, but in all likelihood by mid-month we will be planting our garden. Mmm…. fresh garden produce. The rhubarb is already emerging.
2) May, as [...]

The sevens are colliding. Seven years blogging, and now Claire celebrates her seven-month birthday — today. And I, work canceled due to the blizzard, get to spend the non-occasion with her.
We just finished the breakfast routine, a detail I usually miss save for the weekends. Over this past weekend I spent an [...]

two… (the countdown to seven years!)
Nearly two months ago readers may recall that I mentioned I had picked up a massive swath of black muslin on eBay for a studio style photography backdrop. Officially, yes. It is a studio backdrop. Listed as… sold as… delivered as… such. Custom made and back-ordered, yes, [...]

seven… (the countdown to seven years!)
As requested, I spent some time this morning and sorted through the (relatively) small collection of photos (many still on a memory card) taken since Claire’s half birthday. The image below is both a sample and a link to one of the new albums that was created as home [...]

For those sipping on the few and far between bits of information that leak from random sources regarding the post-sixth month development of our daughter, there is likely to be some disappointment. Admittedly, I’ve been somewhat weak in blogging the mundane, and my presence on the usual social networks over the past month has [...]