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There She Grows

• Big Sister in the Making
  Lil is very excited about baby V. She tells waiters at restaurants, strangers, anyone who will listen: “My mommy has a baby in her belly. its a little sister.” Yesterday out of the blue she said, “When I was a baby I drank out of a bottle. Where’s my bottle now?” [...]
• Playing Pirates
  It all started when she walks into the kitchen brandishing a pretty good sword she’d made from a sheet of tissue paper found in a shoe box. She comes in with her face super serious, pointing the sword right at me. “On Guard!” she says, never breaking character. I’m still distracted [...]
• ULTIMATE SLEEP FIGHTER
  Lil is not a kid who likes to be forced to do anything, even if its by her own body. If she doesn’t want to go to the bathroom right now, who is her body to tell her she has to. She will downright refuse. Dancing around? [...]
• 17 Weeks with Girl 2
  They say you show a lot sooner with second and additional children, than with your first. That was definitely true with me! My aunts were telling me this in Europe. They said I’d have a belly by August, and I sort of doubted it. As soon as I arrived [...]
• Lilah’s Land of Mekkon
  I’ve wanted to post about this for awhile now, because Lilah’s been talking about it for months. I think it all started back when her friend Indie took a trip to Japan, combined with Lil’s learning about world-wide locations via the Wonder Pets. She wants to go everywhere she [...]