Shona Sorensen

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Holly is Nine Months Old Today!

Shortly after Holly was born, I Googled the name “Holly Belle” to see if anyone else had used that first-name-middle-name combination for their baby. As it turned out, there is a singer named Holly Belle, but luckily she is not well known enough for people to think that I named Holly after her. Then for …

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Holly Turned Eight Months Old Yesterday! (+ nursery update)

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, Can we PLEASE get more than one picture WITHOUT that stupid comb?! Who gives their kid a comb as a picture prop anyway? Well I tried taking the comb from her a couple of times. The first time, this happened: And the second time, this happened: So, she gets …

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Easter Was Days Ago!

  I hope everyone found lots of eggs on Easter and that each one contained a small Reese’s peanut butter cup inside of it, and that you didn’t dump a whole bunch of those peanut butter cups inside the cab of one of your toy trucks, and that when you shook the truck to get …

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Holly is Seven Months Old Today!

And she’s my darling girl, even though she is not sleeping through the night! I realized the other day that while Holly’s newborn days were much easier than Emrick’s (much, much, much easier) that at this point — at seven months — Emrick was the easier baby. I know comparing them is useless, but it’s …

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Sick as a Pookie

What do you spy in the background of this photo?   Why, yes! That’s Emrick, lying half naked across a pillow. Let’s have a closer look.   Poor Emrick was sick and miserable yesterday. He was on a vomiting rampage. I went into his room yesterday morning to find that he’d thrown up on his …

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Emrick is Three and a Half Years Old Today!

There are nine minutes left in March 16th, so I am getting this in just under the wire! This week, Emrick received his “acceptance letter” (aka “we accept that check you wrote us”) for preschool, and he appears to be quite happy about it.     Look at that coy grin.   Emrick loves mac …

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