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  • Welcome to my blog!

    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

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Ellie’s 15 month check

Raise your hand if you knew that you saw the pediatrician at 15 months for a well baby check.  My hand would not have been raised for that one.  So we saw her at almost 17 months for a hybrid 15/18 month check (I’m not-so-secretly thrilled to have skipped out on a well baby check—I […]

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totally hilarious

Ellie is squirming on my lap trying to get to the mouse. All arms and legs and twisting and irritating. Me: Excuse me, Miss. Can I help you with something? Ellie, stops wiggling, looks and me and says: Yeah.

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ellie’s words at the end of 16 months

Ellie began signing and saying ‘outside’ this week.  Every day the ‘outside’ becomes clearer and better (in the beginning I could only get it because she was also signing it [badly, it’s a hard sign, but a poorly signed sign and a poorly pronounced word together create understanding).  It’s an important word for her because […]

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mistake

Had a really rough night with Ellie so I had a 5 hour energy this morning on an empty stomach and without thinking carried on to have my normal cup of tea.  5 hour energy + tea + empty stomach = no good apparently.  I feel like I’m going to throw up, pass  out, die […]

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Hi kitty. Ellie’s first true two word phrase.  Last week in Seattle.  The next day she added ‘hi mommy’ to her vocabulary, but the kitties got it first.  Damn cats.  She adored them.

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Ellie, if you catch a star you get to make a wish. Like ‘I want to marry a baby just like Ellie.’ Will, in a reverent whisper to Ellie.  He has been saying a lot that he HAS to marry Ellie when he grows up, because he doesn’t want to marry a stranger.

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