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We turned in our keys at 3:00 pm today, right before James took a 20 minute nap in the car on the way “home!” which ended up being right before he played (not slept) in his crib for an hour!

Here’s a pic of Dave’s new pride [...]

if you try to email jennifer.barnes@gmail.com, it will likely go to some other Jennifer Barnes – the one at jenniferbarnes@gmail.com – and I was getting all of her messages.  There is no fix.  No way around it.  Gmail’s official position on the matter is that they do not recognize the dot in the gmail name, [...]

James has refused his afternoon nap for the third day in a row.  I wonder if he is stressed from moving or… doesn’t like the new place… or just doesn’t need it as much anymore.

We’re unpacking boxes and setting up house.  I just wanted to let the internet know that we’re still alive.

Tonight is our last night sleeping in the apartment. Tomorrow we will be moving the beds over to the duplex.

Of course, James is handling everything really well, besides the diarrhea and the worst diaper rash he’s ever had. Saturday was a tough day with the diaper rash. We wouldn’t have known what to do [...]

So far, most of our furniture (minus James’ entire room and our bed) is over at the duplex and the cats have been hiding under the bed like crazy.  I didn’t want this to happen.  I didn’t want the cats to hide under beds.  This totally bites.  So I locked them into the bathroom.  I [...]

first stride rite shoes, uploaded by davejenbarnes

James’ Grandma K took us to the mall today to buy his first pair of shoes fitted by a salesperson. The lady was very very nice and James seemed to like her okay. Then again, he pretty much likes everybody. He wears a size [...]

James is soaking things up like a sponge. Today we taught him to give a refreshed “aaaahhhhhhhh” after he takes a drink. It is the cutest thing ever. He looks so proud after a big drink and “aaaahhhhhhhh.” This is more for my record than anything but I though I would list some of the [...]

just something to get the picture of the beer off of the top of the page… please don’t criticize the selection of pictures… I made it using fd’s flickr toys and the tag “moving” from our photostream, so it took all of 3.5 seconds to make… I [...]