Archive for July, 2009

Kea Takes a Bite of the Big Apple

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Before Kea came along, I never understood why parents of young children would specify their progeny’s ages in months. Why not years, like normal people? Now, of course, I realize that babies and toddlers develop and change so quickly that calling Kea a one-year-old could mean anything from “she just started walking” to “she speaks in complete sentences.”

At almost fourteen months, Kea is officially more worldly than was Sarah Palin at the onset of her brief stint as Governor of Alaska. Our baby girl has travelled all over central Europe, visited Nashville and, last week, went with us on a short trip to New York.

Best parts of the trip:
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