The Taylor Family

Little Miss Cadie is certainly developing a personality.

As previously mentioned, Cadie stands now.

She also says Mama, Dada, and we think she says ball. She waves, and she’ll point to your nose if you ask her to.

She’s brilliant.

Cadie has been pushing herself up onto her feet for a while, but today she pushed/pulled herself all the way up and walked forward so she was standing straight! She looks so grown-up now – I couldn’t believe it when I went to get her up from her nap. She was sitting in her crib and just looked so much like a toddler instead of a baby.

So she stands, and walks holding onto our hands. She’ll be cruising around before we know it!

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Chris was on crutches when he picked me up for our first date. He sat on a chair just inside the door to my parents’ house while he talked with my mom, who wanted to meet him before sending her daughter out on her first date. Mom eyed his injured leg nervously and suggested it might be better if I drove, but Chris insisted he was fine and I probably glared at her. Chris drove. My mom worried.

We went to the cafe at Borders, where neither of us ordered anything, and we talked until we ran out of things to talk about. As we were leaving, I asked Chris what time it was. Turns out we had talked for hours. That was the point where I said something to the effect of, “That wasn’t as bad as I thought.” I swear that I was referring to the fact that we had run out of things to say to each other. Chris insists I was talking about the date as a whole. But apparently “not as bad as I thought” was good enough for him, as we had a second date. And a third. And a baby.

July 7, 1999 – ten years ago today.

I seriously can’t think of anything to write about. Stuff is happening, but nothing very exciting. We’re trying to get some of our stuff together to sell, because we’re feeling a desperate need to simplify our lives. I’m fighting the desire to simplify things by simply putting all our crap out on the curb with a big sign that says “Free”, since it wouldn’t hurt to earn a little extra money.

Money I can then spend on redecorating! I’ve framed a few pictures and picked out paint colors for the bedroom and bathrooms, so now I have to actually buy the paint, do the painting, and hang the pictures. Those are the only rooms we haven’t repainted since moving in, and they all really need it. Even Chris agrees, albeit grudgingly. (I was telling him that it was a Catch-22 because I didn’t have time to repaint while working full-time, but couldn’t afford to repaint working 80% time – he informed me that two reasons not to do something wasn’t a Catch-22.)

What else? We’re hard at work on our latest money-making scheme, to be launched August 1. It’s been half-done for a while now. We never follow through.

Cadie’s crawling and trying to stand up. We let her cry a bit at night for a couple days, and now she keeps herself entertained if she’s not sleepy. We put her to bed and listen to her practice “talking” while we eat dinner. She’s the best.

This is only a 2.5 day work week for me, but it’s dragging on and on and on… Thank goodness for bagel day.

The father of one of my oldest friends passed away today, and I’ve been thinking back on our friendship and all the time we spent together as kids. Going to the pool and Dairy Queen, riding our bikes around town, walking to Joevan, exploring in the wooded area behind my parents’ house, being driven by our parents to Blockbuster, staying up all night talking and watching TV… It suddenly seemed very strange to me that I was putting a load of diapers in the washing machine in my own house, with my baby daughter asleep in the next room. Cadie’s closer to the age I was when Alyssa and I met than I am now.

I guess I grew up.

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