Category: Family

This post was supposed to be about Milo’s first day going back to preschool on Friday. He got all dressed up in a clip-on tie and everything. But then when it was picture time, he asked if he could take the picture holding Baby Emil, and that Oliver should be in the picture too so … Continue reading “First Day Back”

Already these pictures look outdated to me. Emil grows and grows and grows. His little legs are chubby-ing up nicely, and the wrinkles on his forehead are smoothing out as he lays down layers of baby fat that will soon make his cheeks the size of ripe peaches. So this above picture, taken over a … Continue reading “Getting to Know You”

As the weather grows a bit cooler and the sun’s shadows grow longer, fall is upon us, and little boys’ imaginations begin to visit the place of super heros and super powers. October is still many weeks away, but it seems that all we talk about around here is Halloween and costumes and “bad guys” … Continue reading “Caped Crusaders”

4!!!! As we reached the end of what Andrew calls our “Feast Month” (birthdays exactly every 7 days for a month straight: 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, and 9/4), we were definitely getting sick and tired of cake. Well, Andrew and I were. But at Milo’s request, we made a purple cake. I thought, maybe a squid … Continue reading “Milo’s 4th Birthday”

The birth of dichotomies. It was in some ways the longest labor, in others, the shortest. It was the hardest AND the easiest. Let me explain. For a month straight, I battled contractions that felt like early labor. They usually started in the afternoon (no matter how active I had been that day, how hydrated … Continue reading “Emil’s Birth Story”