Naomi loves to sing

Sometimes she gets caught on a loop where one song feeds into another and there is no resolution. Here you have just a good old-fashioned 2-year-old concert.

One small crawl forward...

...our lives still forever changed.

My daughter circa 2013

(From a draft I started 3 years ago). I could not love her more. Some days - or some moments in the day - she does make me a little crazy, and I wonder, "Who is this child?!"

One Sunday in March (2013) after her nap, she requested (as usual) a snack. Specifically, "Tea, cake, M&Ms, raisins, and popcorn. OkAY, Mom?" I go to the kitchen to boil water. Just in case I've forgotten, she pokes her head around the corner, "Popcorn, Momma,"

Naomi giving me an allotment out of her HUGE bowl: six pieces in a cupcake holder. 

Today I came across a letter Mom to Moesa (my grandma) that explained a lot. I was five at the time. "I just gave Christine a little spanking. I heard her go into the living room and say to Job [my dad], "Why did you ever marry that woman?"" Maybe that explains it all...

 

  Excerpt from a Longfellow poem that further explains my sentiments:

THERE was a little girl,
And she had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good
She was very, very good,
And when she was bad she was horrid.

I love love love this girl.

Kindergarten app submitted. Tests completed. All that remains is a parent interview. I'll miss having her all to myself come fall. Providing Phil and I pass our part of the process.  

Easter weekend was beautiful! We enjoyed Phil being home and having precious little we had to do. 

So, we went to a park every day,

including a picnic lunch at a park walking distance from our new house and Easter egg hunt in our backyard.

Quick trip

Last month when "our house" was going to be inspected, we asked Mom to come be a second set of eyes.  

Here is Naomi watching for Grandma to come (she plopped down at 9:30, however, and Grandma had left her house thirty minutes ago, so I had to persuade her to come do other things for three hours).

 

 Leif thinks Naomi's "no more monkeys jumping on the bed" is hysterical.

 

Naomi likes Leif in close proximity to her coloring/sticker station. He doesn't seem to mind.