Chapter 12, Page 16 Not-so-small vocabulary

He really said this. As a toddler. That's my brother! ^_^

Chapter 12, Page 9 Toddler Terminology

Sorry I missed last week! I had a cold and stayed at my parents', which meant I didn't have access to the artwork (such as it is) or a scanner that would hook up to my laptop. So this is a week late, but I hope the cuteness makes up for it.

Chapter 11, Page 18 Doing Both

Gotta love little red wagons. I think every family should have one. I always wished I could go on the sort of rides Calvin and Hobbs went on, but there wasn't a national park in my backyard. Oh well.

Chapter 11, Page 14 It falls to her

Let's be fair, first of all. Dad could sleep through an air raid siren, a little thunder and a screaming baby aren't going to even register. Besides, Mom is the one with the nurturing instincts. Dad's job is to chase bats out of the bedroom.

More on that later.

Chapter 9, Page 18 Does he walk?

That's a very good question. He never really did walk. He went straight to running. A lot.

The best part of Grandpa's house is that the rooms are interconnected. So Peter can run round and round and round and...

Chapter 9, Page 16 Reminder

Yeah. Peter's bigger than the others were at that age. It makes a difference.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. It might continue to be erratic until finals are over. I had hoped to get some of this dealt with over the Thanksgiving Break, but I ended up getting homework done instead. And not enough homework, at that. ~.~ Sigh.

Chapter 9, Page 6 All together now...

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Little ones do the sweetest things without even thinking. Of course, they can do annoying things in exactly the same way. It balances out. ^_^

Chapter 9, Page 5 Repetative Repetition

I cannot begin to tell you how often I've done something like this.

Chapter 9, Page 4 Bathing Brother

Remember, Mary, parenthood is not boring.

There is one thing even more certain to trigger embarrassment in an older sister than having to watch her little brother in all his naked glory taking a bath. That is realizing that said little bother is about to expose that naked glory to the rest of the world.

Little boys are not born with modesty, are they?

Chapter 8, Page 22 Sad movie

It doesn't really help to point out that it's just a story. Even with that knowledge firmly in place a good story will still affect Mary as if it were real. And she's easily affected by sad things. Rather annoying, actually. (To her as well as everyone around her.)

Note, next Monday the new chapter starts. Back to the old familiar layout.

Chapter 8, Page 13 Beach Spectacle

Some odd things have been going on with my computer. Hopefully it'll be straighted out soon and I can update more regularly.

Chapter 8, Page 6 -- Summer nap

All together now: Awwwwwww!

Chapter 8, Page 5 -- Caucha!

This is a lot of fun. As long as it's done while his long term memory hasn't fully developed and he can't find ways to retaliate.

Chapter 8, Page 1 -- Peter wants hat

This sort of thing can get very annoying. Though I suppose it's better than using her hair as a dinner bell.

Chapter 7, Page 36 Not flu.

Heh. I managed to get a contemporary reference into one of these. I didn't think I'd be able to pull that off.

There are things I really hate about growing up. Especially as a human. Animals don't have to go through this!

Chapter 7, Page 34 April showers.

Don't like the weather in Minnesota? Wait five minutes. It'll change.

Has this ever worked for getting out of washing?

Chapter 7, Page 23 First Birthday

Peter is one year old! Man, a year goes by so fast. Good heavens, how long has Mary Quite Contrary been running? Mary was ten when I started and now she's 14! She's got a little brother now, she's been home schooled for nearly 3 years, and her littlest sister has started kindergarten.

What else will happen from now on? I sure hope I can keep this up for another 4 years. And longer!

Chapter 7, Page 22 Feeding

I should correct that. If the baby food is green I'm not to thrilled about it. But other than that I like baby food. I've also read the ingredients labels. Babies eat way better than older kids.

One last word: Sorry for the missing week of updates. Spring Break, hanging with my family, all that good stuff. I should be back on track now.

Chapter 7, Page 10 Call him Samson.

He really did this. No, really. Fell right no his little diapered butt from the sudden shift in his center of gravity, but he did pull the gate out of the door.

Strong kid.

Chapter 7, Page 9 Walking

Babies. Lots of fun. With the way Mary reacts to trouble it's amazing she hasn't had a heart attack already. Oh dear.