Here’s a few pictures of The Boy from April. This month has seen what I think is the biggest leap in his verbal skills yet. Besides the basic Hi, Bye, Yes, No, and Thanks he also says “Oh wow” when you give him something he likes, and is on a naming kick where he will […]

Bubba woke up last night with a 104 degree fever, and has slept most of the morning. He’s awake now, down to 99, and wanting to play with my camera.

Sunday afternoon at the Zilker Botanical Garden with his sister.

Molly started at the Aveda Institute this morning on a Thursday-Friday-Saturday schedule, so Nate had his first day of daycare this morning. I dropped him off at Bright Horizons on Braker at 9:00am and he loved it, right up until I tried to leave. He cried and tried to get me to pick him up, […]

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August was much calmer than July, and involved many visits to the neighborhood pool. There was a lot of eating different foods, a birthday party with grandparents, and a tiny chocolate bundt cake on his birthday.

On the night of Monday the 21st Nate couldn’t sleep. It wasn’t unusual for him to wake up and cry, so the first few times it happened we calmed him down and left him to go back to sleep. His cries started sounding weird though, less pissed off and more scared, so I eventually stayed […]

It’s been a little over 4 months since I posted here last. I was considering adding multiple posts and backdating them to create the appearance of continuity, but have instead decided to create one post for each month we’ve missed until we’re all caught up. Things started to get behind in July, so that’s where […]

Wow, that happened fast. He eats solid food, prefers to feed himself, pulls himself up and walks along the furniture, throws things, and probably 30 other things I’m forgetting at the moment. Here he is crawling around at my work today.