Category: Steelykid!

(A.k.a. “just under the wire Baby Blogging, because Kate forgot she took these pictures.”) In which SteelyKid performs a magic trick: “Watch me make this pretzel disappear, Mom!”

The message is: “I have a chair!” SteelyKid’s new chair is a kid-sized black fake-leather armchair from Target. We originally set out looking for a kid-sized table and chair set that she could use to draw on, but the only ones on offer at Babysaurus were chintzy particle board things with Disney characters all over… Continue reading A Message from the Chair

Tonight was bath night, so here’s a fresh and clean SteelyKid, showing off her pink penguin pajamas: I’m pretty beat tonight, so that’s all I’ve got: cute baby, penguin PJ’s. That ought to be enough for anyone, though.

Here we see SteelyKid enjoying our post-day-care ritual: kickin’ back, eatin’ pretzels, and watching Pardon the Interruption: “LeBatard always ruins Odds Makers,” she says. “He’s silly…” There was some screaming and crying a little bit before this was taken, not that you can tell. Pretzels and juice fixed everything. May it always be that simple.

Kate here: Since Chad’s out of town, you get Substitute Parent Blogging today. It’s with my non-DSLR camera (and also taken very fast before she decided she wanted the camera more than what she had), it’s with something other than Appa, and it’s eloquent of “I miss Daddy and want to be just like him.”

SteelyKid is seventeen months old today, and how does she celebrate? By scrubbing the floors in the mud room: Honest to God, she does this all on here own. I think it’s driven by the same impulse as the tissue relay— she’ll grab a tissue or a paper towel, run into the mud room, and… Continue reading Thursday Cinderella Blogging 010710

SteelyKid says “You know what? Forget Appa– take a picture of me next to Mommy:” “I’m half Mommy’s height already!” And, if you think about it, that’s a pretty good accomplishment for 2009. Happy New Year, everybody.