The Phillips Family

Month: February, 2012

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Jeremy is not a huge fan of Valentine’s Day, despite the fact that our first Valentine’s Day together was spectacular. Needless to say, every since that first one, it hasn’t been a very big deal for us. However, now that we have Jane, every holiday is more fun, and she and I partied it up [...]

Tiny Girl Shoes

There are tiny girl shoes in every room of my house. Most days Jane will devote a good amount of time delivering shoes to me. Most evenings, Jeremy and I comb the house and return all of Jane’s shoes to her room. One day last week, I dragged out a drawer of her shoes, grabbed [...]

Animal Party

I’ve been trying to do at least one new thing with Jane every day, especially on days when she has a cold or it’s too snowy to go out. Sometimes it feels like we do the same thing every day: we feed the cat, I cook while she plays in her kitchen, we play with [...]

Big Snow

Over the past few days we got a sizeable snow of about 15″ and deeper in places. Shoveling the driveway was exhausting, I have to say. But it was Jane’s first time out in lots of snow at an age where she can begin to enjoy it and play in it. She took to it [...]

Jane Update

Jane will be 15 months old in 8 days. This means she’ll be a big sister in 3 months- whoa! Just a couple of days ago, she started walking. She’s been walking on her walkers for awhile now and could stand and dance and clap for long periods of time, but was too cautious to [...]