Smattery

This video is pretty representative of what Eva’s like these days. She was playing with the screwdriver trying to disassemble this toy but as soon as I tried to get a video of it, she had other ideas. Because whatever I’m doing is ten times more interesting than whatever she’s doing.

Yesterday our day care providers took the day off so that meant I also took the day off and Eva and I spent it together. Since I have clearly missed my 14-month update, I thought it’d be fun to document our day together so I can look back and see what things were like at …

For the first year of Eva’s life, I had a weekly ritual of writing the week’s activities and accomplishments into her baby book, which had 52 pages in which to document the entire first year of her life. Some weeks it was hard to think of things that had happened, and other weeks we ran …

I now have a one-year-old daughter, which is pretty unfathomable to me. She can say “hi”, “bye”, “mama”, “daddy”, “baby”, “no”, “puh-puh” (that means “puppy”) and “buh-buh” (which means “button”) and just this morning I think she started saying “up”. She crawls everywhere. She scribbles with her crayons. She dances. She runs all around the …