Archive for January, 2009

8 months old

Happy .66-Birthday! No big, long letter, as they are a total pain in the ass. We going for quarterly newsletters now. Look for the next installment of your momma racking her brains to remember what your recent accomplishments are – next month. In short, you are totally freaking awesome! You are 99% happy (when you [...]

true love

I knew that the love one feels from their grandparents is pretty great, but, I gotta say, Great-Grandpa-Love is unrivaled. We got to spend a few days around Christmas with Marc’s parents and Great-G-Pa Blase, who gushes over his great-grandson and looks at him with beautiful, warm, loving eyes and holds him with such sweet, [...]

looking back

The older Harrison gets the more I find myself looking back on his long, illustrious life and our laughable beginning as parents. I’m pretty sure he was five days old when we went to our first doctor appointment. It was also the first time we left the house with our new, precious cargo. It was [...]

photos!

Some photos from Christmas – finally! – including this one where he is practically tripping over his eyelashes: Listening: Surf City

communication

With two babies in the house, I sometimes have to remind myself that crying is just their way of communicating. They’re just communicating. They’re just communicating. They’re just communicating. They’re just communicating. They’re just communicating. They’re just communicating. They’re just communicating. They’re just communicating. They’re just communicating. They’re just communicating. Breath Aimee… They’re just communicating. [...]

one step closer

The kid is about to crawl. He has left the army crawl in his new, fast-moving wake. He now gets up high on his arms and pulls his legs toward his chest and then lunges his body forward – all the while with his gorgeous little tongue sticking out (he inherited his father’s concentration tactic) [...]

hard ache

The baby was up for three hours at midnight on Tuesday night screeching like a possessed Howler Monkey. We were terrified that we broke him because of all of the traveling. That he would never again sleep through the night. Marc went to get him and he screamed and screamed. Marc could put him to [...]

the holidays are over

We made it back from our “vacation” – 3 weeks with family in California. My plan was to take a day or two to relax and then leave the kid with any grandparent, aunt, uncle, or nice looking stranger I could find so that Marc and I could get out of the house, see some [...]