19th May, 2009 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Dan and I are happy to announce the birth of our second child, Oscar Dietrich. He was born on May 12th at 7:12 AM weighing 8 lb 14 oz. As always, you can expect an exciting and adventure-filled birth story from me (for example, see the story of Evelyn’s birth). This one promises to be » Read More
20th April, 2009 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Evelyn turned two years old today! It’s hard to believe two years have gone by already. It’s also amazing to see how she’s grown and changed over two years. We had her birthday party yesterday. In the morning we made a carrot cake and decorated the house. There was some trauma over the fact that » Read More
26th March, 2009 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Ok it’s time for a small touch of parental bragging here. Evelyn keeps amazing me with her verbal skills. She’s 23 months old and we long ago lost count of the words she knows. We can have simple conversations and Evelyn is now speaking in sentences of 5-8 words (e.g. “Great, I can colour the » Read More
26th March, 2009 - Posted by karen - No Comments
One of the nice things about maternity leave is that occasionally there is time for a nice day off. It was yucky and rainy this monring so rather than going out we decided to stay home and relax. I spent the morning playing with Evelyn while Dan made bread (he’s trying out a new baguette » Read More
23rd March, 2009 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Evelyn had a doctor’s appointment today. For the first time in 2 years (i.e. since she was born) she didn’t cry. Dan and I were totally surprised! She got a bit scared when the doctor checked her ears and blood pressure, but didn’t fight us (usually the two of us have to hold her down) » Read More
15th March, 2009 - Posted by karen - No Comments
Good news. I recently started maternity leave. Good thing too, as there is a lot to be done over the next few months (to be covered in a future post). Bad news. For the past three months Evelyn has decided she doesn’t want to have an afternoon nap. Not good. She still needs one a » Read More
7th February, 2009 - Posted by karen - No Comments
We recently weaned Evelyn off the bottle. I was surprised how well it went, actually. Since Evelyn was 9 months old I have been giving her formula or milk from a bottle. We tried weaning her off the bottle at around 1 year old with no success, despite the dire warnings of Evelyn’s doctor and » Read More
12th January, 2009 - Posted by karen - No Comments
We have always had problems cutting Evelyn’s nails. From the time she was about 6 months old she would get very annoyed and upset if we tried to cut her nails when she was awake, and by the time she was 16 months old, she would wake up of pull her hand away if we » Read More
5th January, 2009 - Posted by karen - No Comments
So here we are. It has been approximately 6 months since I last did a blog post! This Christmas we were very fortunate to have a break between Dec 24 and Jan 5th so I was able to catch up on a lot of things I needed to take care of. Finally, I feel like » Read More
6th July, 2008 - Posted by karen - No Comments
So Evelyn has learned a new word in the past few weeks. Whenever I sweep the floor at home I end up collecting lots of bits of dust, bread crumbs, food etc. Evelyn is very interested in them but I stop her from playing with them and say “yuck” to her in an attempt to » Read More