Andrea’s Weblog

They say that it took 9 months to put all the weight on, so it should take 9 months to take it off. I guess I’m still about 8 pounds away from where I want to be, but things are looking up. I got my first construction worker whistle since being pregnant! I have no […]

Some of the worlds best cyclists came to conquer Georgia in the third Tour de Georgia this past week, and the McPhersons were there to watch. Here’s an abridged version for those of you who don’t follow cycling: Elizabeth looked cute in her team CSC onesie, we got lots of autographs from famous cyclists, […]

Elizabeth started clapping her hands together when she hears music. It’s pretty cute to watch her decide which “music” warrants a clap or two. Sometimes when I draw out a word or two she’ll start clapping, or when a song catches her ear. She won’t clap to poetry or rhymes, so it must just be […]

Is it possible to be one step ahead of a baby who thinks she has free reign of the house? I’m not certain that it is. For instance, I thought we had the cats’ food bowl out of reach. That is, until she swiped it off the desk and overturned it onto the open […]

Last week I got the flu. I had more aches than I did after childbirth. I woke up one morning and could barely carry Elizabeth around. Fortunately, I got a 9:15 appointment with the doctor who gave me a miracle drug called Tamiflu. It basically stops the flu from reproducing inside you.
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Why is it that Elizabeth can grab a banana and happily start gnawing on the stem of it, but when I open the banana and offer her some of it, she makes a horrible face and spits it out? She is constantly eating bark and whatever she can get in her mouth. Frank said that […]