Baby Blase

Elizabeth and Dave are here visiting. So, we went out to breakfast and walked around south congress for some window shopping. It is great to see you guys again! Listening: Lightning Dust

We found her! She started. And is doing great. But, since I don’t have permission to post all of the details of her life yet. I will leave it at that. Yesterday she organized a shaving-cream-play extravaganza that my kid loved and probably could have done with an hour or so more of. However, Finn [...]

While FUBALLLLLL is still firmly implanted in the kid’s brain as a worthy activity, a new one followed as an even longer lasting obsession. Elizabeth and her boyfriend Dave took H to the Children’s Museum where they discovered his apparent talent and love of every parents worst nightmare. Apparently he stayed and played the drums [...]

Before we left for our California-Holidays Finn and H got one last day together with Elizabeth. As Finn was waking up from his nap H was eager to get back to playing, so, went in to the room to help him. The Harrison-wake-up-plan consisted of a kiss on the nose, a few on the lips [...]

There was some yelling about the ball that-shall-not-be-named today. But, nothing like yesterday’s hysterics: Elizabeth was pretty irritated about the redundancy and duration of the yelling and catching and throwing but, finally embraced it and attempted to teach Harrison the finer points of the game including hiking the ball through your legs: and the all-important [...]

Last Friday Auntie Kylies (that’s my sister Kylie’s official family name) came to visit after working in Dallas and Houston all week. We started mentioning to H that KYLIES is coming! KYLIES is coming! the night before. And mentioned it again when Elizabeth arrived Friday morning. She took it upon herself to teach H to [...]

We got a video this morning of H showing off his “patience”, as learned from Elizabeth. He was pretty calm when I asked him to be patient, so we aren’t getting the full effect but, it’s still really sweet: Listening: The Sun

Elizabeth taught the boys a lot. But, I thought I’d try to remember and record some of the best stuff. Here’s a good one. Patience. Not only the idea of it, but, she taught them to fold their arms, be quiet and watch. This is most often used at snack time while she is preparing [...]

After fourteen months of devoted service, our Elizabeth is leaving us. She is headed back to Dallas and we are incredibly sad to have to let her go. She has helped us raise Harrison and Finn for over a year. We feel incredibly lucky to have had her for as long as we have and [...]

So when I wrote this on Monday about how we’ve been having such a great few weeks and how that would inevitably mean that there are dark days on the horizon, I didn’t know how right I was. Turns out Finn has a cold and baby laryngitis. H has a cold and so do I. [...]