This was a hard one. I decided to show my work-in-progress Christmas stocking that I’m making for Bea. I was inspired by this and this.

  Over the weekend we took another cemetery field trip. This time we took Brian. We went to the beautiful Graceland Cemetery. It’s known for all the architects and other famous Chicago people who are buried there. We had a really nice walk and saw several of the famous graves. I’m finding all this cemetery lore interesting…

… or duhp as Bea pronounces it.

See that little scrape on her knee. Why does my eye and my mind go right to it? I guess it’s because it means she’s so grown up and it’s the first of many little injuries. Sniff, sniff.

  Bea and I went to the zoo today. We needed to get out of the house and get good and tired out. Plus we needed a Z. I wanted to end this project with the Z but I’m getting down to the last letters and Z is all I have to post right now. …

Will someone please tell me that this is the messiest stage she’ll go through. She’s at a point where she’s learning to use her fork and spoon – and I want to encourage that, but good gracious, I don’t think I can handle much more yucky like this. It takes me forever to wipe her…

Bea is really into holding my hand and leading me around lately. Usually it’s nice to feel her chubby little fingers grabbing mine. Occasionally it feels like the little Beast is trying to control my every move. Hmmmm.

Sometimes I’m embarassed to tell you all that, somehow, I have time to take photos like this (It’s the picnic lunch that I packed for Bea today). But, I can’t help myself – I’m fascinated with this woman’s photos of the lunches that she packs for her pre-schooler. It seems to be a trend –…