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Her own sense of style Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

Halloween–and bedtime– came early Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

At the Biltmore house in NC Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

New sandbox! Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

Lily and emily on the "caramel" Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

Lily’s eating habits Originally uploaded by kjda. We’ve spent a lot of time defending the way we feed the kids–which is to pretty much offer whatever’s available at any meal all at once without commenting on what gets eaten. We do encourage trying new things and talk about food groupd and balance, but we never, ever make eating dessert conditional on eating anything else. If there’s dessert, you get it, no matter what. This worked great with Sam but seemed […]

Lily on her first day Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

What we did while Sam was at school today. Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

Sam is on the job. Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

We’re having a party Saturday Originally uploaded by kjda. KJ

I can say, I think, even though we don’t own a scale (well, I think we must, but I don’t know where it is or whether we have batteries for it), that I have finally lost the baby weight. From all three babies. In fact, I’m a pnts size smaller than when I had Sam–which I suspect means nothing more than that pants sizing has changed, because I know what I was like then and what I’m like now, and […]

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Wy’s first cone Originally uploaded by kjda.

I think I remain stubbornly convinced that we are, somehow, or will be, somehow, living the sort of life that is found primarily in the pages of, say, a J. Crew catalog. That handsome dogs will romp up to us as we pull sculls up on the banks of ponds, dressed with what Fitzgerald might have called enviable casualness. It is this illusion that leads me to participate in things like “tball on the green”. We do live in a […]

Two weeks ago: Nor’easter. No power. For three days. Skiing. 4 wheel drive car stuck in driveway. Now: Biking. Sat on the green green grass for soccer. Tomorrow, swim lessons (indoor, but still) and t-ball. What we do here is, we go to extremes.

Caddie stole a cookie right out of Wyatt’s hand today. I yelled at and chased her down, but the cookie retrieval operation was not a success. Wy pointed at her angrily and said “Ba Do!” I would call this an impressive stringing of two words together from an almost 13 month old, except that in our house, bad dog is really one word. Lily walked up to Wyatt today while they were watching a cartoon and I was making dinner, […]

The fortuitous convergence of a Sunday afternoon babysitter, a playdate for Sam and what’s probably (hopefully) the last big snow of the season encouraged Rob and I to head out on our “skate-skis” yesterday. Skate-skiing is nordic skiing with slightly different boots and bindings that allow you to skate instead of slide. One of my friends said it’s like running instead of walking, and that’s pretty close. It’s definitely more work than the old-fangled cross-country skis. It was only the […]

Wy’s party Originally uploaded by kjda. At lily’s school.

I belong to The Well and mostly frequent a really good freelancer group there, where I am middling to low on a totem pole that includes regular writers for Vogue, Wired and Salon but also people who don’t really see their byline in the national pubs very often, if at all. I love being a part of it. Today, I read an announcement that a fellow byliner just sold her first novel in a “major deal”. I was over the […]

Big Day for Wy Originally uploaded by kjda. Facing forward in a new seat!