From Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale

People disappear when they die. Their voices, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living mempry of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continut to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humour, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.

--Diane Setterfield



Sunday, June 28, 2009

Our Growing Girl

Jaedy-bug is growing so fast.

She can:

pull out, drop, pick back up and replace her binky

eat rice cereal, peas and squash (and keep her hands, face and bib amazingly clean... she watched us eat for a while and then after about two or three bites she had the hang of it)
58 seconds of Jaedyn eating.


splash and play in the swimming pool (we have not waterproofed her yet, but she is not afraid of the cold wet water at the pool)

find her feet (she "caught" them for the first time yesterday)

roll over from tummy to back (she watched cousin Holly, who was at our house this weekend, roll all over and the next day started trying. Monday she could do it by herself)

pass toys from one hand to the next (I watched her do this for several minutes today)

grasp furry things like cats and bunny rabbits very tightly
27 seconds until she gets it in a power squeeze!


We are so happy with and for our little girl!
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4 comments:

M said...

cute cute!

June 26, 2009 at 12:49 AM
Ruth said...

She's adorable. Aren't babies fascinating?

June 30, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Jane Doe Jenn said...

Hi there,
I just stumbled across your blog.
Love the title - we live on a cute little street called Peach Blossom, but in Ontario, Canada.
Your little one is a cutie!

July 12, 2009 at 7:10 AM
Claire :) said...

Wow! she is soo cute! she reminds me of my baby sisters, but they still like to eat with there faces :)

July 27, 2009 at 3:10 PM

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