This Clingy Thing

Milly needs to get over this clingy thing she’s developed for me.  I mean, it’s flattering to a degree, but when I can’t put her down to take stuff out to the car, or she cries when I leave the room just to go grab something, it gets a little stressful. It was compounded today […]

Christmas 2010

I woke up around 7:00 and Amanda woke up around 7:30.  I think this will probably be the last Christmas in a very long time where Amanda and I are the first people awake on Christmas morning. When we got Milly up, our plan was to have her open the presents under the tree, then […]

Milly and the Christmas Lights

Charles put up some Christmas lights across the street over the weekend and turned them on tonight.  Milly saw the lights and was really amazed by them.  Unfortunately, he didn’t keep them on long, and Milly both signed for and said, “More,” (which is pronounced “muh”).  She started getting upset that they wouldn’t come back […]

Greenville Thanksgiving

We did not sleep well last night, which is pretty usual at Amanda’s parents’ house.  Bruce kept wanting to go out of the room and Harvey kept scratching himself, which made a lot of noise with his collar.  On top of that, just as I was over one cold I seem to have gotten another, […]

Sweetness in Spite of Snottiness

Milly was very upset at still being in her crib at 7:00 this morning, so I went ahead and got her up.  I tried to get her to lie in bed with me and maybe sleep a little more, but that wasn’t happening.  I ended up giving her a bath because she had a clump […]