Make New Friends

This song was on almost constant repeat this afternoon.  Missing a few words, but "Make new friends....the other one is gold!"  You know, in case you don't speak Toddler.

Mimi in 2010

Little Meemers isn'tso little any more....and she has HAIR now!

Mimi Blows Out Her Candles

Mimi Blows Out Her Candles from Myrnie Twin on Vimeo.

Mimi's First Football Game

As I said, the girls LOVED the football game last night.  Mimi was particularly enthusiastic!


Mimi's First Football Game from Myrnie Twin on Vimeo.

No Love

At the suggestion that a bit of yogurt might help Mimi process dairy a bit better, I gave her a bowl or two of yogurt for a few days.

LOVES the yogurt.  LOVES.










If only the yogurt would love her back...after a few nights of waking up every 2 to 3 hours, culminating in a 5:30 up-and-at-em this morning...no more yogurt for baby.  Sorry.  I really am.  I'm sorry about your horrible diapers and recurring diaper rash too.

(The no sleep thing kept going for 2 days after the last bowl of yogurt.  Gah!)

Mama bought a tub of daufufa (a tofu dessert with a nice spoonable consistency, kind of like custard) and it wasn't a big hit.  She liked the ginger syrup, but a bite of tofu was promptly raked off her tongue and handed to me.  I gave it to her, I must want it back right?  Or at least know what to do with it?

She's loving her soymilk though- for a few weeks I added a little chocolate syrup, but she's been loving it even without the syrup...so maybe there's hope for tofu?  I'm looking for a soymilk maker, and plan on making a batch by hand to get my feet wet, as soon as I can find some beans at the store.  (Think the local co-op will have any?)

Nobody Does Sad

like Mimi does sad.

Mimi: A Year in Review

Mimi at One Year

Mimi had her one year appointment yesterday.


21 pounds 2 ounces (25-50%)
30 1/2 inches (75-90%)
46.2 head circumference (75-90%)


Looks like our fearless dino is taking after her daddy's side of the family! (Trust me- no baby in my family could ever be called "tall and skinny." Which, I believe, is what the doctor has just done for Mimi.)

Was it worth it?

I gained a half hour to make dinner...but what have I lost??

Piano

See, all this time I thought I was doing pretty well on the piano.  I push the keys, I push the pedals...but along comes Mimi.

I see now, I should have been EATING it.  

Singing Time!

Oh, it just warms my heart to see my youngest daughter stretching her musical wings... and I still humbly suggest that she's part eagle.  Or pterodactyl.

Old MacDonald Had a Pterodactyl from Myrnie Twin on Vimeo.

My Girls

My girls are so different, and love each other so much.

Yes, I'm pretty sure this is what heaven is.  I fall in love all over again, watching them fall in love with each other.

The Girls Eating Lunch from Myrnie Twin on Vimeo.

Classic Mimi

Not much here, but this is our classic Mimi- she's rough and tumble, she talks a lot, and she loves to "boing" that silly door stop.

Oh, and yeah- she mastered that step about an hour later. Our baby crawls, goes up the stairs, and eats chicken stir fry. Sigh. (Thanks for putting up the stair gate last night, Wonder Daddy!!)

Hi Daddy!

Do I need to say anything else?  Nope.  I am so mind-blowingly grateful for Wonder Daddy.

Eat your veggies!

Spring has sprung, and produce has become a BIG thing around here.  

Here is Bert, so very excited about our haul from the farmer's market.  (I think that egg basket is one of my favorite thrift finds.)

Mimi managed to snag a leek on the way through the kitchen while I was preparing dinner.  She absolutely destroyed that poor vegetable, but she managed to eat a respectable portion of the bulb before I got nervous about the green bits that threatened to detach themselves and take up lodging in her throat.  

Wonder Daddy brought home a HUGE tub of California strawberries when I sent him to the store for eggs- Ernie was over the moon.  She simple adores strawberries- I think she ate 10 in this particular sitting.  She's properly kitted herself out, too- doesn't she look proper, sitting on the deck in her party clothes, little red chair, small tub of berries... she's so funny :)  

I don't have a picture of this, but she's eaten all but one of our 6 farmer's market apples.  They're small Fujis- she picks one out, rummages in the tupperware drawer till she finds a container with a lid that suits her, and takes her "lunch" outside.  She'll come back for seconds or thirds, too.  I drew the line at taking multiple apples at one time for her "friends."  Her friends are getting quite numerous- we can't drive away until she crawled around the back seat buckling them all in: Maren, Isabella, Boy, Nathan, Bolt, BBJ....and then we have to UNBUCKLE them when we arrive, and she shoos them toward wherever we're going.    

Spring Has Arrived

Today was a beautiful 75 degree Spring day. Doesn't get much better than that! We spent the morning at the park and the evening in the yard (followed by a bath for everyone!)

And can I just say that HOORAY, tax season is over! (At least for individuals...) It was so much fun having Wonder Daddy walk in the door at 4:45, instead of 7:00 or 8:00. He tries to get an early start to work, so he can be home in the afternoons and we're so grateful!

(As always, check out more pictures from today on our Flickr page. Let me know if you don't have the address.)

A Day with the Chickens

The girls and I went to visit my good friend before her rapidly-approaching move to Northern Nowhere, Alaska. We had such a fabulous morning, visiting with her chickens, rabbits, ducks, and fish. We even had a proper tea party, with impossibly tiny cups for Ernie, and hats all around.


Mamie and Ernie show off their finery in the garden


Ernie feeds lemon mint to the girls


Myrnie and Mimi

Ernie sitting down at her tiny tea table, for a tea party of cookies, peach juice, chocolates, more cookies... "All right! Let's have tea party!"

Ernie got to HOLD a chicken. She was a little concerned.
She was pretty excited about the egg she collected from the coop. Not excited enough to EAT it, once we got home, but excited to carry around "her" egg.


Thanks, Mamie, for a wonderful morning the girls won't soon forget! We'll miss you.

PS- Mamie will be living close to Santa Claus. So we now have an "in." Serious, she can hand-deliver any messages you might have for the big guy. Just sayin'.

Did Somebody say "Go!"?

Run, Mommy, Run....

It's not crawling and it's not really an army crawl. Very free-form and organic...I think Mimi's motto in life is going to be "Get 'er doooone!" (And where is that from? Someone please tell me if I'm referencing a joke that ought not to be referenced on a family blog...wouldn't be the first time!)

I do believe we'll have serious issues when Mimi grows up...she'll have all the ideas, and Ernie will have all the height and strength. Up until now, Ernie has been blissfully free of "ideas." You know, of the destructive kind. (Because she has plenty of other ideas.)

Laughing

Man, how did I miss posting this gem? Mimi fully appreciates Wonder Daddy's many musical abilities...

Matchy Matchy!

The girls received an Easter package from Nana and Grandpa last week- look! Matching dresses! They girls got so many compliments at church- thanks Nana!




Errrr....I think this is their "evil" faces.


Wonder Daddy was a nervous wreck, with our 3-year-old holding our 6-month-old at the top of the stairs... but they did good!


We called Nana to say thanks- here's Ernie in her dress, feeding (Nana) jelly beans to her (Nana) stuffed toy. (Ernie can't decide if it's a duck or a bunny.)