Abby ~ 27 August 2010 ~ 14 Comments

Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails

Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails

Today all the Supergrands gathered for a very special occasion. Today Valor (who is already wearing 24 mo. clothes) officially graduated from being a baby into being a little boy (and one who likes cake!)

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Abby ~ 25 July 2010 ~ 17 Comments

Finding a home: Part 2

Finding a home: Part 2

Moving…again?! Tomorrow at 10 am, we plunge headlong back into homeownership. After our home in Central Florida sold—a miracle, given the distressed real estate market there—we started looking in New Bern, but we didn’t find anything compelling, and we had more or less decided that we would continue to rent for another six months or [...]

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Abby ~ 14 July 2010 ~ 3 Comments

69 seconds of fame

69 seconds of fame

Valor’s Superman video was recently featured on our friend Jen’s new blog, EPBOT. He shares the post with his young ninja friend, Isaiah (or “Mister I”) who used to come play with us once a week. Step back in time a moment and remember how… Those buddies used to laugh together… Cry together… And recount [...]

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Abby ~ 06 July 2010 ~ 7 Comments

leaps and bounds

leaps and bounds

After a month or two of backing up, Valor passed the 10-month mark and sprang into action, developmentally speaking. First, he was able to sit up by himself (from a lying down position). I walked into his room after his nap one day and found him sitting up. Then a week went by before he [...]

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Abby ~ 18 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

touch of grey

touch of grey

“The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old.” –Proverbs 20:29, NIV In December 1962 my father rode home from a hayride with three of his best buds. They all fell asleep and the car hit a tree, hurling my dad through the windshield (no seat belts back then). [...]

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