Happy Spring!

Anna says bye bye and hello now, with a wave. Finally. It is the one thing that all strangers do when interacting with a baby, and most babies happily oblige with an adorable wave. Not Anna. Nope. Not doing it. Instead, she stared at people with a disconcerting intensity that would finally make them mumble "oh, ok, that's ok, you don't have to wave...not today..."

But now, she has decided that she will finally do it, and of course it is The Most Fun Ever!

She is also walking about 6 feet at a time. Despite earlier predictions, she is taking her sweet ol' time ambulating.

Signs that perhaps your son's Star Wars preoccupation might be too much:

Mom, looking at a photo of koala bears: "Hey, Carter...Do you remember what these are? We saw them in San Diego..."

Carter, looking closely: "Ewoks?"

smartphone

what did i do before my new phone???