Monday, January 24, 2011

Sweet, Sweet Girl



A few minutes after I put Mabel to bed tonight, I heard her calling for me on the monitor: "Mommy, my pacis!" SoI went in and rescued her pacis, which had fallen on the floor. Then she stood up in her crib, patted me on the arm and said, "Mom, I like you." And then she leaned in and gave me a big kiss. Such a sweetheart, this girl.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

And We're Back


The Editors of The Nugget Chronicles have returned from their very long winter's nap, and sincerely apologize for the unannounced histus from sharing all the Nugget news that's fit to print. We had a lovely holiday season, with a few unanticipated illnesses thrown in for flavor, and we're back and ready to go.


Mabel is doing great. She can now walk backwards, peel a clementine, take her plate from the table to the kitchen (mostly) unaided and sing all the words to Baa Baa Black Sheep and at least 5 other songs all by herself. Except in her version of Baa Baa Black Sheep, there are more than just three bags of wool ... depending on the night, there are usually 8 (the usual suspects, Mommy, Daddy, Grammy, Pop Pop and Mabel) and sometimes as many as 11 (the aforementioned crew plus her three cats.) So, she sings it her way, which we encourage.