stop looking at me like that...: June 2007

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

My new Favorite Blog

Rare Bird Finds

Lots of fun things to pretend you have money to spend...

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Standing Ovation

In the last few weeks Esther has been practicing her standing. Sometimes she even attempts a step (but so far without success, thankfully too. I'm not sure i'm ready for the walking to begin).

So I was able to get a few shots yesterday of her newest physical achievement.

Friday, June 15, 2007

WOOT! WOOT!s all around

A WOOT! WOOT! to my beloved for seeing the dentist for the first time in four years and not having a single cavity!!!!

A WOOT! WOOT! to my big brother for the Kodak sponsorship on his XC bicycle trip.

A WOOT! WOOT! to my mother for taking 1st place in the second largest national trap shooting competition in the U.S..

More Beach Pictures.

a surly Esther chomping on her pacifer.

Early morning Oma time.

Esther's new friend, Linda.

Playing at the pool with cousins; Stacia and Olivia.

from left to right: Ryan, an escaping Olivia, Stacia, a bundled and sleepy Esther, me, and Ben.

What a good lookin' family.

Ben and our little potato.

I think they're watching us swim with Esther...

And there we are swimming with Esther for the first time.

She smells so good.

this will embarrass her some day... her kooky mom...

I love this face. She looks so suspicious.

I'm playing with her spare chin... it;s just so soft.

The mommy rack.... it's so weird having boobies...

Isn't the view loverly? This is the deck of the house where we stayed.

Precious play time with Oma

That ball is as big as she is... Doesn't stop her though.

This is her "I want to eat the camera" face.

And this is how she drinks out of water bottles. She loves them...

Monday, June 11, 2007

Family Vacation June 2007 Chincoteague

Esther is having a staring contest with her new friend, David.

Let's see how Esther likes grapes

Esther, Stacia and Olivia

Esther, me and Olivia (i love the striped pajamas)

Let's see how Esther likes watermelon

Trying on Oma's hat.

awaiting the next wave... she could care less...

Sandcrab Daddy and Baby.

I'm not sure if the sun is in her eyes or if she's starting to cry here...

The man i married...

playing

going towards the waves

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Our Story

This blog started off while my husband, Ben and I were living in Prescott, AZ. I was there finally finishing a belated college degree, getting in fist fights at the local bar, rock climbing, and being care-free. Ben was blacksmithing, drinking at said local bar, and feeding snails to John’s chickens. December of 2005 I graduated in a flurry of finishing my [unpublishable] manuscript, speaking and reading at several graduation soirees, and packing up all our worldly possessions. We arrived in Maryland on Christmas eve. After the holidays and while waiting to hear back from graduate schools, we began the settling in process. Looking for a place to live, obtaining (supposedly) temporary jobs, opening new bank accounts. But about a month later, one day before receiving my acceptance letter from Hopkins, and one week before moving into a house, I peed on a stick and was rewarded with two pink and rather smug lines. Now after years of cow-eyed baby gazing, you might think this was an answered prayer. But here we were completely up-rooted, living out of duffle bags in my parents’ house, with nothing to our names but a couple old pick up trucks and enough student loans to pay off the national debt.

So after a few glassy-eyed days and some feverish fit throwing we happily embarked on a completely different future.

Long story short, after backing out of our lease, 9 months of me crying while trying to squeeze into my pants every morning, Ben building our teeny-tiny cabin in the woods, and three days of labor, Esther was born. 2 years, 2 months, one addition onto the teeny tiny house, and 9 hours of labor later Asa was born.

So this blog has gone from mundane college crap to everyday baby-blogging crap, and here we are in our little house in the woods, with our two wild babes, one unruly vegetable garden, and lots of plans.