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    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

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ellie’s signs

Ellie has even more signs and words in her repertoire.  ‘help’ is my absolute favorite because of how darn useful it is!  I love that she says the word and signs at the same time—I don’t have to worry about her being a late talker at all!  ‘doll’ was said/used for the first time yesterday, […]

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Will and I like to make up words.  Will’s favorite/most used word: imaginate.  verb.  to imagine.  As in “but I was imaginating that I was a pirate!”  (also works in the past tense as “Look at this beautiful picture!  I imaginated that I was a king!”) Mine: disgustified. verb.  to make disgusting.   As in […]

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We have taken to putting Ellie in Will’s shirts for bedtime.  It is adorable.  But it does make her look like a boy

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Today I bought Will a $0.25 bucket at a garage sale (he’d just been saying this morning that he needed a bigger bucket for sand castle building) and a $1.50 shovel on clearance at Target, and he has spent the last 3 hours in the sandbox.  That works out to a babysitter at $0.58 an […]

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At bedtime I have been signing “love” to Ellie as I say “I love you.”  She started signing it back to me a few weeks ago, which I was very excited about.  This morning I could tell she was ready for her nap about an hour and a half ago, but she was playing nicely […]

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