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How Does Your Garden Grow? Sugar Snap Pea Edition

Posted on August 28, 2013 by BrassyDel

This year my garden has been a bit… lackluster. In the spring I weeded, and tilled, and I did not bother putting compost down again this year because I apparently don’t want anything to grow. I also did not put Preen down early enough (I always worry it will mess with my vegetable seeds) so the garden was overgrown with…

The Trouble Twins Pose for Photos

Posted on August 16, 2013 by BrassyDel

We were playing outside the other day when the kids noticed my camera. “Oh, take a picture of us!” they cried. Or Pixie did. Chappy will go with the flow, but Pixie is obsessed with cameras and taking photos. I really want to get her this drop-proof kiddie camera, but it’s sixty bucks. Not exactly an “on a whim” purchase!…

Birthday Girl gets a Skylanders “Purple Party”

Posted on May 28, 2013 by BrassyDel

Little Miss Pixie loves to watch anyone play Skylanders, especially if they’ll let her swap the figures on the portal for them. She also likes to steal all of the Skylanders figures and play with them in her little dollhouses. They like to have parties. So when I asked her what kind of party she wanted for her birthday she…

(How Not To) Care For Your Child’s Spica Cast

Posted on April 15, 2013 by BrassyDel

My daughter was born with bilateral dislocated hips, which is pretty severe hip dysplaysia. She had to have two surgeries in the fall to put the head of the femur into the sockets, which required cutting a short chunk out of the femur and cutting the pelvis to shape it correctly around the femur. Clearly, it was a lot more…

Pixie Pie: Strongman

Posted on March 27, 2013 by BrassyDel

Pixie’s had a lot of difficulties in her short little life so far, like major hip surgery (twice). She is one spunky kid though, which is something I figured out when she was still a tiny little colicky newborn. Girl is feisty. And man can she climb! Can’t walk independently again yet, but she’s always been a heck of a…

Dancin’ Girl

Posted on February 25, 2013 by BrassyDel

Pixie can stand unsupported again! Sort of. For a little while, if she’s feeling up to it, anyway. Her friend, The Perfectly Pink Princess, was over for a playdate recently and was doing somersaults and dancing like crazy, so Pixie inched away from the play table to stand up all by myself and wiggled her elbows. “I dancing!” Oh, she…

Paper Doodles

Posted on January 11, 2013 by BrassyDel

The ever-lovely Biiku recommended I check out the Paper iOS app because I have an unhealthy addiction to my iPad and I also was whining about not being able to really draw on it, nor can I usually sketch during the day on real paper without Chappy going completely insane about it. I kind of want to write an in-depth…

Apple Picking

Posted on January 7, 2013 by BrassyDel

Gramma’s backyard is on the small-to-average size as far as suburban American backyards go, but it boasts a small garden and a nice, big apple tree. Before Pixie’s first surgery in September, we had an apple picking party, which really just means all the grandkids were thrown together in the backyard and big people helped them pick apples. Or, if…

Tutu Cute

Posted on December 18, 2012 by BrassyDel

I made Pixie a tutu, which she was really excited about while watching me tie on each section of tulle and then wore for less than seven seconds. So I put it on Chappy, because their dad wasn’t in the room to stop me, and Chappy thought it was awesome. Then she decided that she wanted it after all, probably…

3 o’clock

Posted on November 19, 2012 by BrassyDel

Every day around 3pm, the atmosphere at our house shifts drastically. There’s yelling, crying, and whining about dinner, plus the kids are pretty crabby. I’m trying to cultivate some patience, but it seems to just walk out the front door by mid-afternoon. Which is exactly what my 3 year old would do if I didn’t have a gate up….

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