Dec 30
Even though Emrick didn’t know what the mustaches were at first, once I showed him, he was surprisingly into it. Emrick liked the mustaches SO much that he decided to put every mustache from the pack on his face at the same time: Emrick thought this was hilarious, and later in the …
Dec 30
Last year we spent Christmas in California with my parents and brother, and — perhaps because the big road trip to CA made Christmas seem like an extra big deal — we really indulged Emrick that year. He got lots of cute and special toys, including a rocking moose, a shopping cart with pretend …
Dec 08
When Marcus found out that he had to make a work trip to L.A. during Thanksgiving week, he asked if I wanted to make a family trip out of it and have Thanksgiving with my brother Chris. I did! We had initially thought that with the new baby, we would prefer to just stay put …
Nov 26
When Emrick turned one year old two years ago, we took him to a local studio for some professional portraits. He’d never been professionally photographed before and it seemed that his first birthday was the right occasion to finally get that done. Because of his shyness, that shoot yielded only a few really good pictures. …
Oct 27
Our little Holly Belle is now a smiling girl! Like most babies, she’s been doing the sleeping/half-sleeping smile since the day she was born, but on Friday the 18th, when she was exactly six weeks old, she gave me what was her first, unmistakable, fully awake “social smile“. We were on the sofa together …
Oct 21
Last October, Marcus and Emrick and I went for a Sunday drive. That’s something that Marcus and I used to do pretty frequently before we had kids. When I first moved here, I enjoyed those drives because I wanted to explore the neighborhoods around here and generally get acquainted with the area. Plus, there was …
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