Category: Kids

  • Mia, 1.75 Years

    Travel, the outdoors, potty, attitude, friends, and surgery, oh my! Over the holiday season grandma paid us an extended visit and we also flew to NC to spend Christmas with my family. Mia loved boating and playing with her cousins. Mom and Dad loved having the extra help. Flying went relatively well – effortless on

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  • Mia, 1.5 Years

    I kept milestone notes over these past three months and the ones early on are… just… so minute compared to where she is at the end of the period. At the beginning she was barely starting to say her name, which now she can combine with up to 3 other words including the possessive form.

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  • Mia, 1.25 Years

    And like that, we have a toddler. Over the past three months Mia has begun walking (happened just a week or two after one year) and talking up a storm. We have a regular little goofy person in our house now (in addition to the two big ones). She’s still loving daycare, splash parks, playgrounds,

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  • “Camping” @ Memaloose State Park

    We’ve heard of people doing it. We’re tough. We’re good parents. Why shouldn’t we take our 13-month old camping? Let me tell you the reasons: Unless you book a campsite six months out in the PNW, you’re stuck with some pretty bad campgrounds. Memaloose State Park, sandwiched between railroad tracks and an interstate (LOUD, and

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  • Mia, 1 Year

    We all made it and Mia’s grandparents were able to visit and meet her for the first time. What a blast! New this month is standing all the time, getting super chatty and interactive, eating corn on the cob (Mom’s favorite), a little bit more napping on us (Dad’s favorite), and my Dad says he

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  • Mia, Month 11

    The last of the monthly posts! You’ll get one next month, but really that’s a yearly post. We’ll be moving to quarterly from there. This month Mia found her vocal cords; she chats up a storm, can now scream, and that’s the end of our hearing. Her biggest feat has to be climbing up any

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