These posts have been lacking, indeed. We've been hanging out outside as much as possible, so I'll claim that as an excuse.

Imogen will be 18mo this month. She is so fun, talking all the time and just generally being adorable. Granted, we've seen a fit or two. And last week we had a few very unfun teething nights, but this week has been smooth sailing, sleeping all night...although I don't think those eye teeth have come through yet, so I fear we'll have a few more teething nights before too long. Poor baby.

Imogen loves reading books, and sometimes I'll put her in the zebra chair and she'll sit up there for a good while, taking books off the shelf and paging through them. I've found that 25 mins is plenty of time to get a few things done while she's happily reading (except that I interrupt my work because I like to peek in to watch her read :).





Immy also likes to play the piano. She likes me to put her up on the bench and she plays a few notes, and then turns the page of whatever music I have open on the stand, and then she plays a few more notes. It's very fun to watch. Oh, and she's becoming fiercely independent, as I learned the other day when I was sitting with her at the piano. She was manning the treble notes and I had the bass when she leaned over and tried to push my hands off the keys. "Wait. Wait.", she said. And then, "Get down.".
It'll be hard the be ensemble partners with an attitude like that. :)
Oh well, it only takes one to enjoy Haydn....







Her favorite song remains. Hot Cross Buns. And we're only in the car for about 2 seconds before she's asking to hear it. And she sings it around the house. And she'll sometimes play the rhythm on the piano while she sings (not the pitch of course, she's not Mozart).... and it never gets old, I tell ya.


She also loves the iPad. And if she'll sit and read books for 20 mins, she'll easily double that time with the iPad in her paws. She likes scrolling through the photos and vid clips, and looking at her abc flash cards. She has no problem navigating this thing.
The times. How they're changing.


I'll close for now. We're having a fun weekend, what with dinner with Bryan and Rae last night, and then my sis, bro in law, and nephews coming down this evening.

Hope your weekend is fun, too. Don't eat too many choc bunnies!


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monday, monday, monday

And a delightful day it was. T took the majority of the day off and we were outdoors the whole live-long day. Worked in the yard. And it was wonderful. Oh, I could stand for this weather to keep on and on like it is.
And now some photos of my little reader rabbit.
(i typed "reader" and then "rabbit" typed itself)



Mercy, mercy we love this girl.
Her new favorite word is (you guessed it) "no". Sometimes she says it sweetly. Sometimes not so sweetly. She's been saying "yes" for a while...so maybe we can do a little more "yes" encouraging. :)
Love.
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marriage is what brings us together today. that blessed arrangement. that dream within a dream.

(imsorryijustcouldntresist)


Here's our little Bryan. And his pretty bride.



It was a gorgeous day for a wedding.



right here her daddy is telling her to never, ever get any ideas about a wedding of her own.



Oh, I love my little family!



Daddies and their girlies.


Oh, and the handsome prince was in attendance as well:






It was so pretty under the tent.




During the ceremony we enjoyed:

A hippo.


After the ceremony we had a delicious dinner.
It was so fun to help B celebrate his special day!

Another girl in a family of boys is always a good thing. :)



After the busyness of the weekend (thank you R, W, and Kamryn for the Saturday night stay!), it's been nice to be home and quiet.
Well, as quiet as you can be while jumping on the couch.



Much love to you all. And go VCU!
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oh, hello, you busy week, you.

fun things have happened...like being with friends and kids and family. and like going with hub and friend to dinner and theater. i love all of these things...but you knew that already.

fun things have yet to happen....like playing for violinists, and going to our brother's wedding, and being with friends and kids and family. i love all of these things....
...but you knew that already.




love to you all.
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and a few more things i love

Am I the last one on the wagon again?
This sweet little sponge is my new best friend. We've been teaming up mightily in this little house. And let me just say that I'd charge Mrs. Molly Weasly to come in here and do a better job on my 20 year old kitchen vinyl. Magic indeed.


And one more thing I love from this week, and it beats the daylights out of a clean kitchen floor:




A sweet sister that carves time out for her niece. And let me say that when I mention to Im that Chauntee will be stopping over, she stops whatever she's doing and runs to the window to pound on it and say " Fafa, Fafa" repeatedly. It's adorable. And I'm thankful.

Wow. A lot to love about this week, things I haven't even mentioned, and things that are yet to be. And look, we're only halfway through!

Hope your week is going splendidly.

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things i love

my thoughtful husband.


morning stories with my sweetest ever baby (and a few of her friends).


a brand new (to me) blogging app.


three cheers!
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Texas, our Texas, so wonderful, so great

I love going to TX. I love seeing friends and getting reacquainted (ie: "now who does that little boy in the blue shirt belong to? Oh, that's Beau? No way." well, hopefully I wasn't THAT bad :) with everyone. I love to be able to go to restaurants that we don't have back east (why are there so many of them??? I always come home feeling a little worse for wear in the healthy living department). And I love driving around the old stomping grounds. This trip I felt like I was able to do quite a bit of driving, and I would say things like "Immy, this is Old Granbury Road. Isn't it beautiful?" Because it is.

On Monday, as I sat in the sun with Biz and Auty, eating gelato from Central Market, I called my husband to see if he would just get a ticket to fly out and meet us in Ft. Worth, since by this time we were having so much fun but we couldn't stand the thought of being without T for one more day...his sweet response was "I already checked for tickets a few days ago and they're sadly very expensive." Aw.
So as sad as we were to pack up and have to say goodbye to Aunt Jackie and Biz, we knew we had a fun reunion ahead.

So yes, a mighty fine trip (even with illness, as unfun as it was, it gave me quiet time to visit with Jackie, which was the silver lining). I'm going to post pics but the Blogger interface on the iPad doesn't allow for captions (hello?? dear Blogger folks, if you're listening... )
so I'll just put them in chronological order.

(and that ch word up there looks very out of place on my monosyllabic site :)

Love to each and every one.

And ps: forget the whole chron order idea, for apparently the Blogger photo interface for iPad has a mind of its own... imagine it. The one of Davie and Im together is at the science museum. There is one of us playing Sound of Music on the football field. And there's one of Davie sleeping on the airplane seat (what in the world, right?).