Monthly Archives: December 2009

Wordless Wednesday: Day late edition :)

*yawn*

You may have noticed a dearth of posts as of late. It’s not that we haven’t had anything newsworthy to report lately; in fact, it’s quite the opposite and my iPhoto library is bulging with new photos that I keep meaning to upload and write about. It’s just that, *yawn*, an extreme torture in the [...]

Merry Christmas from the Brousseaus!

Wordless Wednesday: Belly surfing edition

Big girl!

After a multitude of swipes at our candles, dinner plates, forks, vases, and so on, we realized it’s time to retire the Bumbo seat for mealtimes. Last night we brought Sylvie’s high chair out of storage and gave it a whirl for dinner time. She loved her new vantage point and banging on the attached [...]

Wordless Wednesday: sassy elf edition

Christmas card outtakes

Crappy lighting + fickle camera + sick/rashy baby = some pretty bad Christmas card attempts! But these are so bad, they’re almost good. You may just find that third one (“Joy to the World?”) in your mailbox yet.

Wordless Wednesday: Sleeping Beauty Edition

I love reading the posts of this mama blogger, and every Wednesday she posts a simple picture under the header of “Wordless Wednesday.” This week, she actually explained her photo, but generally it’s sans caption. I love the idea and look forward to her weekly wordless shots. Apparently, she didn’t invent this idea, as I’ve [...]

Baby’s first snow!

We had our first real snowfall last night, and this morning there was still enough of it on the ground that I excitedly bundled Sylvie up, anticipating a classic shriek-filled exuberant reaction. The first camera flash brought a smile: Then she did her best impersonation of Randy in “A Christmas Story”: She gave the snow [...]

The lady likes her drink

I tend to skim through various mama sites while nursing, and today I read something that adamantly stated that babies need water once they start solids or their kidneys will be overloaded. “Crap,” I thought, “I had no idea! Here I’ve been feeding her solids for two weeks now with no water! What a bad [...]