I am typing this up on our new Apple Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard courtesy a very generous brother who spoils me for Christmas. (He also gifted us a new pen for my wacom as well as a much-needed memory card upgrade (4GB!) for the camera.) This tiny keyboard has the benefit of [...]
On Wednesday, David and I will have been married for eight years. Because we will be, oh, a couple thousand miles apart on our actual anniversary, we celebrated last night with a very relaxing and delicious dinner at Chez Zee and a stroll through the Apple Store in The Domain.
Dinner was [...]
I finally finished something… there are so many projects! This is the sugarplum shrug from Interweave Knits Holiday Gifts 2007 Issue. It took me a month and a few days of spare-time knitting but I finally got it done. It isn’t as big as it’s supposed to be but, hey, it fits. Not [...]
Somebody took my baby and swapped him out for a sleeping one. He took two 2-hour naps yesterday and slept the whole night through. Yes, I know that by typing this out for the whole world to read that I am jinxing myself and it will never happen again, but I had to record this [...]
I’m finally taking some time out to write a post. I find it hard to gather my thoughts here lately as I’m always coming up with posts in my head while driving or drifting off to sleep but they evaporate before I actually make it to the computer to post. It seems like this has [...]
18.5 pounds (25th %) and 30 inches (95th %) means he’s a very tall thin young man for his age. No shots, thankfully.
Everyone always told us, when we were pregnant with Lowell, that the second one does everything faster than the first. That bewildered me because James was sitting unsupported at 17 weeks, crawling at 8 months, and was walking at 9 months old. If Lowell was gonna be faster to pick up on things than James [...]
Not to leave out the little brothers and sisters (and Braelyn who is an only)
Lowell refused to nurse today. Pray for him to nurse soon. I think it’s the top 2 teeth which are pushing through his gums right now, but who’s to tell? It’s frustrating at any rate.
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