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Toes

Big week for Miss Maggie. She has officially found her toes. I know! I said it was big! Love love love this stage. And here’s Finn at around the same age on the entrance sign to the Mothers’ Milk Bank Austin. What a chunk!

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First Grade!

When I was in high school, my friend Adam’s mom showed me a series of pictures taken on the first day of school. In all of the pictures Adam stood in front of their front door. I loved seeing the yearly change and I thought at the time that I was going to do the...

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today

I’m taking a deep breath and jumping back in to the blog. Rather than attempt to catch up on all I haven’t posted in the last 8 months, I’ll just pick up from where we are now. I think this one pretty much sums it up.

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kristin, lars & ian

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These are some of my favorite kids. Kristin was the first newborn I spent a significant amount of time with before Seamus was born (she now likes to refer to me as “Seamus’s mom” on occasion until I politely remind her that she has known me longer than Seamus has, knows my name, and should...

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tracy, scott, cooper & hazel

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It’s a lot of fun shooting close friends but it always makes me super nervous. Happily, Cooper has mastered the art of smiling without completely closing his eyes, Hazel was in a playful mood, Scott didn’t moon the camera, and Tracy didn’t throw her hands up in self-defense. And that’s called progress. I love so...

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