Dear Harrison, Where to begin? Well, let’s start with the obvious. You’re ONE! Happy Birthday! You are such a little boy! You love trucks and cars and tools and trains but, also babies and kitties and puppies… you are all boy, but, have a sweetness that is undeniable. You go from crashing your trucks together [...]
Dear OCMD readers who have stumbled upon this site from Julie’s birthday post, I am so terribly sorry to disappoint you. I know that with a URL including the word hellraiser you were certain you would find posts about obscure experimental psych rock bands. Unfortunately this site is more dirty diapers than Dirty Projectors. We [...]
This video pretty much sums up the last week we had with family: Thank you to grandparents-McKirdy for the sandbox-making. To Kylie and Jeff for the multiple errand-running. To great-grandpa for making the long trip out. To grandparents-Blase for gutter-cleaning (an unexpected bonus!). And to all of you for the general good-times-having. We sure are [...]
Oh internet – we used to be so good together. Our relationship used to be one of equality. Of understanding. I’m sorry that I can’t always be here for you. I understand you have needs, but, so do I. I assure you, I have not taken you for granted, it’s just that there are other [...]
We are off to ride the Zilker Zephyr! I will write more as soon as I can (I promise – Maggie!), but, suffice to say our baby is jumping head-first into year number 2 – he already has a chipped front tooth. There is nothing namby-pamby about this kid. Listening: Elvis Perkins (still listening… it [...]
I didn’t write yesterday because I was too busy walking around in a daze thinking that our kid’s month-long run of magical-11-hour-uninterrupted-sleep had come to an end. A terrible, screaming, crying end. Two nights ago H woke up at 1am screaming bloody murder and was inconsolable for a little while then was awake for an [...]
We took a trip to family-heaven in the form of fried food, buckets of beer and a playground for Katherine’s birthday last Saturday. I look way happier than is normal, but, I suppose being surrounded by friends, friends’ kids, booze and tan-bark will do that to a girl. We had never been to Phil’s Icehouse [...]
We finally took the CPR class we’ve been saying we should take for over a year. You can now all feel totally comfortable coming to our house and choking. We’ve got you covered. Listening: RaRaRiot
Marc’s parents just got back from Hawaii and sent us a care package. Books about the ocean and an adorable “fancy” outfit for H and for us: That’s like 100 pounds of macadamia nut Hershey’s Kisses half of which have been consumed in the past 15 hours. Now, we know where Marc got his evil, [...]
Just four hours after saying his first word H signed the word Please. It just goes to show that you should never get too caught up in any one moment of your child’s life. Because just when you think that he will grow up to be an anchor on the country’s most negative news organization [...]
