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I am the Gingerbread Baby,
Fresh from the pan.
If you want me,
Catch me if you can.

I love this book! We checked it out of the library, and when it was due back, I decided to just order it for the girls and pull it out every year with their Christmas books and bake gingerbread cookies.

It is Jan Brett’s version of the classic Gingerbread Boy tale, but with a much happier ending, one in which the Gingerbread Baby doesn’t get eaten up.

Our cookies, however, do. :)

Anna is quite the little baker! She loves to help I mean do it herself.

Mmmm… she likes to smell the spices: (more…)

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Sarah is 2 months old today! It was very cold today… a great day for a warm fleece snowman dress. Isn’t she cute? She’s been giving us lots of great smiles lately, but not usually when I have the camera out. Maybe I’ll capture some of them soon.

She is starting to get a lot more fun. She still mostly eats and sleeps and just lies there, but she is getting more responsive to us. She likes to lie on her back and kick her legs, and she’ll look us in the eyes and smile when we talk to her and play with her. She also reaches for things and grasps them whenever her hand happens to land in the right spot.

So how’s she sleeping? That’s a question people love to ask about newborns. She seems to be the opposite of Anna. Anna was a good daytime napper, but she remained a horrible nighttime sleeper until about 6 months of age. (Fortunately, she’s been great since then.) Sarah, on the other hand, does not nap well during the day, but at least she sleeps well at night! She’ll usually go to bed and sleep until her middle-of-the-night feeding (which is around 4:00 these days), then go back to sleep until morning, usually not requiring any intervention from us in between. So if I had to take my pick, I’d much prefer her to sleep well at night!

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We finally got our cork floor installed! Back when Sarah’s birth was quickly approaching, we decided to get the kitchen to a point where it was usable, then put it on hold until after she was born. So we’re trying to get it finished now.

Now we just need quarter round, paint touch-ups, and eventually a row of tiles for the backsplash. I think that’s all.

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I want to blog more often, really I do! It’s so hard to make it a priority right now. But here’s a picture; maybe it will get things rolling. Here are my girls with their blankets that my OB clinic gives to all the babies they deliver:

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