After a couple of weeks of almost crawling, Jonathan is mobile. We’ve got a lot of work to do to be ready for this - there are outlets that need covers and stuff that needs to be moved to higher shelves. Jonathan still sometimes finds himself “stuck in reverse” - crawling backwards, and getting farther [...]

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Friday night, Miriam treated Mikaela to a “spa night” - moisturizing bath followed by manicure and pedicure. Mikaela is especially pleased with the results of the nail art that Miriam did for her. And she’s also looking forward to doing it again soon - she’s already been asking when they’ll get to have another “Spy [...]

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Monique’s salon is now open for business. She got a great website describing her services, complete with a portfolio of examples of her work and glowing testimonials from clients. My favorite testimonial comes from Kathleen O’Shaughnessy, who says, “When I’m rich and famous, I want her in my personal entourage.”
I think that says [...]

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Miriam took Jonathan for his 6-month portraits a couple of weeks ago, and we got our color proofs via Email today. All I can say is, wow. We’ve always had good luck with the JCPenney’s Portrait Studio at Oak Park Mall, but this is the best session yet. We had an awful time deciding which [...]

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Rylei Kramer is in town visiting over the holiday, with her grandma and grandpa Martie and Bob. The girls were talking about how they don’t get to go to each other’s birthday parties, so the grandparents (Martie, Bob, Marcia and Larry) decided that they should have an unbirthday party together. The girls had a great [...]

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