Andrea’s Weblog

I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon now that we have a dog … and
we tend to walk the dog and the baby at the same time. It seems that
Finley gets (me) more waves from men, but Elizabeth gets “oh how cute”
looks from women. I can’t count the number of waves we’ve gotten from
guys in pick-ups, […]

Elizabeth has finally decided that hats are cool, which is great because I hate seeing her squinting while we take our walks. I put a floppy sun hat on her yesterday and she entertained herself by pulling it down over her face and crawling around blindly. She would run into a wall, stop, take the […]

Last Saturday we had company over for dinner. While we were wining and
dining, Elizabeth was happily feasting on chick peas. I kept giving her
more because she was sitting so quietly and she had finely found some
real food she likes.
The next morning we were picking her up from the church nursery and the
woman says in a […]

Last week is a blur. A blur of poo, pee, overturned water bowls and
slobber. Finley’s first week here coincided with Elizabeth cutting her
canine teeth. Well, they actually haven’t appeared yet, but her gums
are all swollen. Between that and housebreaking Finley, there were
times I wanted to pull my hair out.
The good news is that Elizabeth and […]

I have no idea what I’m in store for, but last weekend I consented to
getting a new puppy. We had planned on getting a dog when Elizabeth
could help take care of him, but it didn’t turn out that way. Our
friends bred their standard poodles and had a cute litter of 10 week
old puppies. They planned […]

We spent Memorial Day weekend visiting Elizabeth’s grandparents, Aunt
and Uncle in Bel Air, MD. Her Great Uncle Boog and Great Aunt Kathy
also drove all the way up from Richmond, VA to meet her. There was
surprisingly little information online about flying with an infant.
There were no magic steps to stress-free flight, no cry-free flying
advice-there was hardly […]