Andrea’s Weblog

Elizabeth and I have a on-going shoe battle. I like to put her shoes on, and she likes to take them off. We were outside the other day and off come the shoes. I said “Elizabeth, you’re going to step on bugs and they could bite you.” (We do live among fireants here in the [...]

Summer is flying by and we’ve been doing the usual summer things: trips to the lake, trips to visit family and friends and swimming lessons! Elizabeth is officially a Waterbaby after her two weeks of lessons at the pool. She loves swimming, kicking her legs, blowing bubbles, and singing songs. She really loves the songs [...]

My friend Anca was over and happened to witness Caper, our fluffy cat, bat at Elizabeth. (I think Elizabeth approached from behind and grabbed her tail.) Anca said, “be nice Caper,” a new phrase that Elizabeth enjoyed repeating over and over. Fast-forward several days to dessert time after dinner. We’re getting out slices of peanut [...]

Frank and I have stumbled onto a way to get Elizabeth to cooperate for tooth brushing. It’s always been a struggle to get her to let us brush, but we haven’t wanted to hold her down and force her for fear of starting some dental phobia. We discovered that if we tell her that her [...]

Last night we had an incident with a watermelon. I had placed a watermelon, cut in half  through the middle so it wouldn’t be too long to fit in our refrigerator to cool down. (Our refrigerator is the kind with the freezer on the bottom.) I was making dinner when Frank came home from work [...]