Girl’s Life

What can I say? The girl loves water. She’s also pretty gullible when we tell her to put the hose over her head while daddy’s standing next to the faucet. She obviously doesn’t have any older brothers.

And I’m telling you, I wish I could bottle up and sell the little girl squeals we heard that […]

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh!” he whispered.
“Yes, Piglet?”
“Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.”
~A.A. Milne
Sophia does everything with full force. Especially loving her friends! This is Sophia and her friend Justice (”Sustice?!” she’s asked me daily since then) on a recent hang-out session/love-fest. My […]

I’ve been amazed for awhile watching this little person in my house learn about language. It’s a fascinating progression — to learn grunts and cries and moans, to learn how to express what you want with different sounds and different emphases, to then learn vowels and consonants, to move on to actual words (!), […]

Wishing a Happy Father’s Day to my husband, who is a fabulous daddy to a little girl who loves him a lot.
And, of course, a Happy Father’s Day to my own dad (and happy birthday and happy anniversary)! Hope it is a restful and happy day for you both.
The above photos and mosaic by me. […]

I hate to say it, but my daughter has learned to lie.
She’s not even two. She hasn’t even mastered the English language. She doesn’t yet know how to read or to spell her name. But the girl already knows how to lie, I tell you.
OK, so she doesn’t really lie so much as she lied. […]

Happy 21 month birthday, Sophia!
It’s been a whirlwind month of activity with you, as always. Your dad and I struggle to keep up. Thank goodness there are two of us. Because by the end of a day of chasing you (usually sans-pants) through the house, dancing with you to 80s music, “cooking” in […]

Sophia has taken to proclaiming her love for water all. the. time. Ever since we let her loose in the sprinklers last week, that’s all she talks about. At night before bed, she likes to remind us that tomorrow will be hot and the sun will be out, so maybe, just maybe it would be […]