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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 .

    I've created a map that shows links to our camping/hiking/general family fun review posts that you can find here. It's pretty much the coolest thing on this site. Thanks, Google!

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Ellie occassionally swapps woah-wee for William.  It is very very cute to hear her say his long name!

She is picking up baby signs at an astonishing pace.  She’s got

please

banana

shoes

socks

coat

love you

wind

And her spoken vocabulary just gets bigger every day.  One of the things that I love about the signs is that often it’s with the sign that I am able to really catch the word that she is saying.  Like “shoes” as a word I may have missed, but with the sign I understood that she was saying shoes.  Pretty cool stuff!