I am in desperate need of a solid 8 hours of sleep. I am not sure I have had that much sleep in one setting in over 5 years. This is one of the current causes of my lack of sleep- “Bob.” This active 3 year old can not turn it off. He can not stop long enough to fall asleep. I have tried nearly everything. I have finally found a solution in our 13 year old cat- should have tried one of the younger cats first… Anyways, Bob is in love with “Piggy.” She will curl up next to him. He must to be still or she will leave. She starts purring right away and he quickly drifts off to sleep. I am, of course, bribing the cats with ice cream. Here’s to Piggy!

I thought I could keep it up, posting my image each day that is. I can’t. So, here I am posting my layout from last week. I am loving the new photo sleeves from Becky Higgins. I take a lot of vertical photographs, now I don’t have to turn them 180 degrees.

Elizabeth got her first point and shoot camera for Christmas this year. So far it is holding up great! She also got the little polaroid printer. The prints are very small, but she loves them. I was able to add a number of her photographs to last week.

She kind of let me take a picture of her after her nap yesterday. Such a tough age she doesn’t really need a nap, but if she doesn’t get one she is a terror by 6…

I was looking at Christopher today and trying to figure out when he stopped being my baby.  I was wondering how he changed so much in the past year.  Then I thought, I bet I took a picture of him almost every day his first year.  I quickly went through and grabbed as many pictures as I could and threw them into a slideshow.  I actually think I can pinpoint certain changes.The big physical changes seemed to coincide with his developmental milestones.

Christopher through his first year