Posts filed under Hazel

We hope you all had a great Holiday season - and we are wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009.  2008 seems to be ending on an upward note, so we are hoping that the New Year continues in this upward trend.  To keep things light and help prevent those post-holiday blues, here is [...]

The cutest witch in town - and I’m referring to Hazel here.

Sometimes, the only way to get a booger out is by mirthful force.

Like an adorable sponge, Hazel is soaking up language at a frenzied pace currently. Her vocabulary arsenal silos into three distinct categories:

Food Words: These were the first words Hazel mastered. “Turkey”, “cracker”, “hot dog”, “noodle”, and the ever-popular, two-arms-in-the-air “Ketchup!!”
Manner Words : While we typically have to remind her to say them, we [...]

Excitement comes in many forms. For some, nothing beats the rush of barreling down a snow-laden mountain face with two planks strapped to your feet. Still others find their adrenaline rush in the spin of the Roulette Wheel or the toss of the dice. And others, like Hazel and her Uncle Ryan, [...]

And while I volunteered to be stuck by a needle today, what truly hurts is that Hazel is growing up pretty damned fast. After week and weeks of her hating daycare, something clicked last week and she now loves it. She says the names of her classmates at home and I’m convinced, if [...]