Jan 26
Ok! I better get a post up here before the ladies rally together and show up at my door with pitchforks! It has been a dreary few weeks. After a long stretch of single-digit temperatures and snowy weather, we are now in a long stretch of “Unhealthy” air quality warnings. A thick blanket of fog, …
Dec 11
As you may recall from the Halloween post, Emrick didn’t get to eat any of the special orange cupcakes I made on Halloween night. So the next evening, after dinner, he was in for a real treat! Yes. He ate it all up! In other news… Emrick has known the word “outlet” for a long …
Dec 09
Since I’ve been neglecting to post lately (no particular reason!), I need to do some backtracking to post pictures that I intended to put on the blog long ago and never did. This may take a few posts… Tonight’s entry takes us back about a month and half to the week before Halloween! That was …
Nov 16
At two years and two months old, Emrick still mostly prefers to play in the presence of me or Marcus — either in direct interaction with us or with us observing him. But his bouts of alone play are slowly increasing in frequency, which means I can usually take a few minutes to tidy the …
Nov 01
So, where were we? Oh yes. We had settled on a greaser costume for Emrick. It was easy, comfortable, cheap (only the price of the Hanes shirts was spent!), and as it turned out, totally adorable. And here is where I should explain Marcus’ costume, which is partly visible in this photo. He is dressed …
Nov 01
The Halloween celebration began for us on Sunday. That’s when Marcus carved one of the pumpkins we’d bought the weekend before while Emrick observed. We waited until it was dark, and then we put a couple of tealights inside of it and placed Marcus’ Jack-O-Lantern on the porch. Emrick has been fascinated with candles — …
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