I had time to make four flannel nighties for Bea when I was in Midland. I used simplicity pattern #5695. She is such a big girl wearing nighties and all. Unfortunately it’s almost impossible to get a photo of her wearing one of them between the light conditions and her inability to hold still shortly…

It’s been way too long since I visited beautiful Dow Gardens. 

Enough of that scary photo. Here are some photos from our week with Mom. She came through her second hip replacement surgery with flying colors. By the end of the week she didn’t even need us so we have come back home to Daddy.  Bea had fun putting her blanket on Baxter and making a…

This picture is more than nine months old now. I have always thought it was hilarious but Kathy wasn’t so thrilled. Now that Bea doesn’t really look like this any more, her eyes are no longer so blue, her hair is longer, her cheeks less rotund, it’s ok. As in… Kathy always encourages me to post…

I finally got a photo for the Braid Wednesday group over at flickr. We spent a nice evening sitting in the sand at the beach several days ago. Putting sand in Daddy’s hair – thrilling.

Inspired by Pretty Good

One of the few and far between benefits of having a Daddy that travels all the time. You can make the keycard collection he has given you into roads.

Bea overcame her timid tendencies today. We spent the day at the Lincoln Park Zoo. She rode the kiddie train all by herself. She climbed in this big net and ladder thingy that was crawling with big kids. And she rode the carousel. She looks like she’s not having fun in the last picture but…