oren: mommy, put you glasses on. you scaw me. seb: mommy, you need to get new glasses. you’re scary when you look at me with an angry face. oren: mommy, you make me cwy! seb: mommy, you’re pretty when you smile. oren: something fwum the dawk scawes me! seb: you need to let me have […]
Posted on June 7th, 2008 by jkh
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that i am writing. this is the first of anything i’ve written about our fall 2007 trip to the red river gorge in kentucky. it will be growing over the next few months to actually include what we did there and with whom… Oren He started out clean. Cherubic even. His smooth, round cheeks and […]
Posted on January 15th, 2008 by jkh
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the farmer’s wife cut off the tails of the three blind mice. the little girl with the little curl right in the middle of her forehead deceived her mother for affection. really, why is humpty dumpty an egg? and why, why do the king’s horses and men want to make him better? why? and, i’m […]
Posted on January 10th, 2008 by jkh
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i’m sure none of the readers of anklebiter can imagine this, but i am really bad at taking pictures, especially when it comes to family visits and cute cousins playing together. so you can go here instead, to see how much fun we had over the week between christmas and new years.
Posted on January 10th, 2008 by jkh
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it’s 4 a.m. seb, who has been sick, wakes up coughing, hacking, screaming and yelling. suddenly, all is quiet–not a creature is stirring. from the silence comes a little voice, like the coo of a dove, saying, “there! now i can talk!”
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by jkh
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soft, cozy toys spiderman (the one the size of a two year old sleeping with seb in seb’s bed wearing seb’s thomas the tank engine p.j.s) oren, my brother (awwww) mommy (*sniff*) daddy (seb, you are just so sweet!) and all the rest of the things in the house (oh, well… that’s nice)
Posted on November 22nd, 2007 by jkh
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oren screams as a yellow matchbox truck hits his little big toe and clatters to the floor. he looks as his mama and screams again, louder. “what’s the matter?” asks his mother from the adjoining dining room, tearing her gaze away from the computer in front of her. she sees that he is looking down […]
Posted on November 20th, 2007 by jkh
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oren is grumpy this morning. everything is making him cry. i just sat down to eat my breakfast, and over he ran to sit and eat with me. earlier, i turned on a dvd for the boys so i could eat in peace, and now, i’m saying to oren, “come on, go watch t.v.” and […]
Posted on August 17th, 2007 by jkh
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although it doesn’t really seem like it from this website, brian and i are avid rock climbers (though i have to say brian is more of a couch climber than an avid one at this point in his life. i’ve been carrying the climbing torch for the family even through two pregnancies. this needs to […]
Posted on June 11th, 2007 by jkh
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yesterday, sebastien said this to me: “mama, i’ll drive home. i’m four now.” (!) since his birthday, a week ago, he has really grown up.
Posted on May 19th, 2007 by jkh
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