This picture reminds me of another one from a few years ago. I was taking shots of my, then baby, nephew while his parents made every effort to extract a smile. The baby was cute but the parents were even better. I couldn’t help turning the camera on them instead.
Somehow I never posted my Buckaroo haiku on the front page ~ not certain why. Anyway, today I found the perfect picture accompaniment from Dora’s early days and had to share.
baby in the house
bleary eyes for tiny toes
a worthy exchange.
**In case you were wondering about those two blue bumps, they’re my knees. I’m laying on my back, balancing my 3 month old up in the air with my legs while taking pictures and saying “cootchie coo” repeatedly. Yep, we’re all about the safety around here.
Due to a slight paranoia, for the longest time on this blog my eldest daughter has been known as Sister and my son as Brother and that seemed oh so sufficient and clever back in the day when we were NEVER going to have any more children. Never? Ha!
So finding a bloggy name for our littlest has presented a bit of a conundrum. She’s been “Baby” up to now but how will that go over when she’s not a baby or what about when another comes along? (Yes, we are planning on having more) Calling her “Littlest” presents the same problem. She needs a moniker that won’t get usurped by another. She needs a name she can keep. But what? Soon after the birth Brother declared he did not care for Baby’s given name. He would call her “Dora” instead. Not wanting to jump on the Nick Jr bandwagon I resisted using his choice here. Now however I’ve convinced myself that “Dora” can easily be explained as short for “Adorable”. Since she’s all that and more … Internets, meet Dora.
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Consuming baby love
like the intoxicating beverage it is.
Can’t get enough.
Drunk all the time.
Who knows how this sort of thing gets started? An innocent little picture taken at the zoo the day before Sister’s birth
and another taken in the same spot 11 days before Brother arrived
means that, of course, we must make a zoo trip in the heat of mid-June to capture this baby’s coming for posterity.
Is it just me or does the current “37 wk” belly look equally as large as the two “past due” bellies from above?
Oh, and we looked at some animals while we were there too. 
but mostly we just came for this…
ever practical and slightly crunchy; the wife of my best friend and the mother of three incredible little teachers. Each day we explore our world and when there is time I come here to share our discoveries with you. My name is Toni. Thanks for stopping by.
