We are on day 7 of the potty training journey, and we just had our first 100% successful experience. Ellie was downstairs with Will watching The Little Mermaid. I heard her come up the stairs calling for me, saying ‘ut oh’ and signing potty once she saw me. This is not unusual—from the second day […]
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Yearly Archives: 2011Ellie 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, […]  If you follow my pinterest boards, you’ll know that I’ve been a tad bit dollhouse obsessed lately. This dollhouse pillow, in particular, immediately caught my eye. I knew I wanted to make one! Since Children at Play didn’t arrive in time to the be the star of Ellie’s quiet book, I figured I would instead […] 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 […]  I almost got two pages done this week, but decided to start potty training Ellie on Wednesday instead of waiting until Monday as planned, so I spent Wednesday and Thursday watching her hoo-ha instead of doing…well…pretty much anything else. The good news is that we’re over the worst of it AND she’s been easier to […]  I have been wanting to make my famously cold sister-in-law a quilt for a long time, but couldn’t decide on a pattern or fabrics. I wanted something that would fit in with the style of their home, but struggled to think of something modern enough. I decided that the FRMQG solids challenge (use at least […] |
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