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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]