Chloe and Nate: It should be time to sleep again...

At 6 months of age, things were starting to get exciting, they were giggling, rolling, sitting up better in their bumbos and so we tried some rice cereal. This is the cutest thing they have ever done. They were seated side by side in matching pink and blue bumbos, Nate was ready. Curious and so excited about what was about to happen, he knew it was going to be good. He was trying to get it in his mouth and make it go in the right direction as fast as he could. We have it on video above. Chloe really wanted to have nothing to do with it, and after tasting it - I don't blame her, WOW. This is when I started making my own organic stage 1, pureed foods. And how, you ask, did I have time, or energy, when you know what I was doing?? You just do it because you have no other choice, as my chiropractor so eloquently put it.

So, now life gets a little scary...I was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma on my face and subsequently underwent several surgeries for the removal and another for complications. I was devastated and probably don't want to elaborate at this point. My Dermatologist heard my history of sailing in the caribbean when I was growing up, and said, "well, at least you were having fun when you were developing it. Would you change anything you did knowing now how it turns out?" - probably not! I was judicious about sunscreen application, but being blonde and fair-skinned on a boat in the British Virgin Islands, it is difficult to avoid a sunburn.

In Cane Garden Bay, Tortola, start of the Olympics with categories such a dingy slalom, kayak races, knot tying, spelling out words over handheld radio with the phonetic alphabet, beer chugging, search and rescue and galley duty