Monthly Archives: June 2008

Leaps and Bounds

Holey Moley Lowell has picked up three new words in the time span of about five minutes.  ”Up” “Blue” and “Wow!” are now an everyday part of his vocabulary.  It’s amazing.  He will imitate the vowel sounds of the words you say but in those words, he really got the consonants, too.  ”Dad-dee!” “Mom” (no...

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banana1672 - Exciting about Lowell learning new words — and he’s so close to walking, that’s great :) I love that James has tattoos — Aidan is afraid of everything right now… roly polys, fire alarms, temporary tattoos and bandaids… they all have their bizarre quirks don’t they?June 18, 2008 – 5:02 pm

Jo - That’s about the same as Berry when she’s not feeling cooperative. And she also totally plays us — fussing until she gets what she wants. She’s started having tantrums already when we don’t give in.June 19, 2008 – 1:10 pm

Happy Fathers Day, to be.

We’ll get to celebrate this one next year.

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banana1672 - You always have such a cute belly. Glad I got to see it :) June 19, 2008 – 11:50 am

Happy Father's Day

Thanks for being the very best Daddy in the whole wide world. I said it before we even started dating. Whoever marries David Barnes and has his kids is going to be the luckiest woman alive. Little did I know, I would end up in that role. Now, as James would say, “Wanna go play...

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Thanks, Mom and Dad!

My mom and dad came down yesterday afternoon and surprised us with a new garage door opener (and a drill for David) for Father’s Day. David and my dad got to spend the rest of the day installing it in the garage (which was a virgin garage, never having had a garage door opener installed...

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as promised

Here are some pictures of our Master bedroom. I don’t think I want my bedroom displayed for all to see right now (the bed is unmade, there are no curtains up) so I am taking detail pics of things in the bedroom. This is a lovely mirror that I scored at Pier 1 Imports for...

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