I love the Latin with the double u’s. And we had occasion over the past weekend to find out the real reason that we get Easter Monday off of school. It’s to allow people with small children to recover from the Triduum.
Or not, since I think that’s probably just us. But we survived it – two hours on Holy Thursday with an un-napped three-year-old, two hours Good Friday, and over three hours on Holy Saturday. Here’s the blow-by-blow.
We have such beautiful girls. Samantha is fighting her molars, but at the same time she has started giving hugs and kisses, and I don’t think there is anything in the world cuter than a hug from a 14-month-old. We are truly blessed. And I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, with the NFP discussion going on on a friend’s blog. Some people struggle to figure out their signs and when they’re fertile, and it leads to frustration, fights, and general trouble. I, on the other hand, have a regular cycle and a hard time not knowing if I’m fertile, now that I know what to look for.
[evil laugh] Craig and the girls are out, so I am free to eat ice cream before dinner, sew, and write on my blog! Sweet freedom!
But ice cream aside, (or inside, as the case may be), I now have the problem of which of the hundred things I’ve thought about writing about in the last few weeks will actually make it on the page. Well, enough stalling.
Before I forget, (since I’m not keeping track of all this anywhere else!) Samantha has a new tooth, which we noticed a couple of days ago. Bottom, left of the two front ones. And she now loves to walk, and wants to start writing. Sigh.
Ok, it’s a couple of days late, but that was so that I could get the pictures up. I can’t believe she’s a year old already! I had to go back and re-read her birth story as part of the celebration.
We had broccoli pasta and apples and squash, both of which Samantha could eat and really, really enjoyed.
We had apple pie instead of cake, since she can’t have eggs. (There are eggless cakes we like, but the pie is really good!)
Thursday night, Samantha took her first steps! We were sitting in the living room, and she toppled forward (it seemed to me) like she had tried to walk, so I picked her up and pointed her toward Craig, and she took two or three steps to him, then back to me, and back a couple more times. I am not ready for two walking children, but apparently Samantha thinks I am! She hasn’t done much more, but she spent most of today in the stroller at the zoo anyway. Things are happening fast here!
Big news the last couple of days. Samantha said her first “word” in sign language two days ago (Monday). It was “milk”. I was quite excited. Today we were playing, and I put a bowl on my head, and then on hers. Then she took it and put it on her head a few times and laughed. And I wondered, “where did that little baby of mine go??” She’s grown up!
Loyola Kids Book of Heroes: Stories of Catholic Heroes and Saints Throughout History by Amy Welborn
The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks (Penguin Classics) by Unknown
The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day by Robert Ellsberg
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the by Sam Kean
