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We are so fortunate to have Bowen Dale join our family! He arrived November 26, weighing 9 pounds 2 ounces. Big sister Katie is over the moon!

Bedtime Book Review

The Monster at the End of This Book

By Jon Stone

Illustrated by Mike Smollin

I have always loved this book. I remember reading it when I was little and loving all the color and creative lettering. I used to pretend that it was really hard to turn the pages when Grover nailed them and tied them together. I was kind of a weird kid.

Katie's says, "I like this book because it is funny. There are lots of colors and the monster is silly."

Katie brought me breakfast in bed one day last week. A cold Coke (Daddy may have helped) and the last chocolate chip cookie. I tried to refuse the cookie, but she had "saved it for Mama." I tried to share it with her. "No, it's for you, Mama." Finally, I convinced her to crawl in bed with me, and we broke the cookie in two and shared an early morning cookie snack.


So far, my nefarious plan to keep her at home is working.

From Katie's Brain....

This past weekend we visited a friend in Southern Oregon. We dipped down into Northern California to visit the Redwoods. As we toured the park, we kept an eye out for the delicious banana slugs. There was a lot of foot traffic in the park that day, especially families with young children. Katie ran up to a young girl, maybe 7, who was taking a picture of one of the giant trees. Kate runs up and jumps in front of her camera, yells "BANANA SLUG!" and runs away again. Poor bewildered girl looks around, as if she were thinking, "What the heck just happened?"

I'm back!

Hey, blog. I'm back. I haven't forgotten about you. I just needed some space. It's not you. It was me. But hey! I'm finally back into a part of my life and my head that I want to share. I know, you can't wait. :)

Prairie girl

My grandmother indulged my every dress up desire when I was little. She made this prairie girl dress when I was going through a (rather intense and long) Laura Ingalls Wilder phase.



And now my daughter loves to play with it. I love that.

I think we need an agent...

Katie was in the paper again! Well, it was the online edition of the newspaper, but that's almost the same thing, right?

Here she is, at a Pink Week festival at the local high school.