I have temporarily named our second child. Since we won't know what the gender will be until sometime around Christmas, we need to decide on a name for either sex. This is difficult. For now, I am calling it in honour of Radiohead, "Kid B". That would make Alex "Kid A". "Kid B" is due to drop on May 18, 2008 ( Read more... )

I'm still breathing. It's been practically a month since I've last posted. Since then, the family went back to the Bay Area for Easter weekend, and we're waiting on Randall Martin to release our lot so we can design the home they are going to build for us.
While we were back in California, we caught up with cz_journal, his girlfriend Jill and son Jon. That ( Read more... )

Saturday turned out to be an interesting day. Shannon and I had her mom come over and watch Alex for a few hours. We intended to go to the A's vs. Texas Rangers Spring Training game in Surprise. By the time we got there it was too late. There is only one convenient road from where we live into the budding bedroom community, and traffic was ( Read more... )

Poor Shanny. She got up at 2 a.m. to check on Alex in his bedroom across the hall. He has been waking up in the dead of night lately, causing us to lose some valuable beauty sleep. Last night was more of the same, and while she was attempting to feed him a bottle of milk, he inadvertantly poked her in her left eye, scratching the cornea in the ( Read more... )

Some recent shots of my son, who will be a year old in less than a month! ( Hier kommt Alex! )

Alex has been sick off and on for the past two weeks. He definitely hasn't had much of an appetite, and he's only able to eat Cheerios, and drink water. Since Wednesday, anything besides that makes him throw up. Not to mention he has had volcanic diarrhea. I took Friday off from work to stay home with him, which was nice. I felt guilty for ( Read more... )

He was such a trooper. No fussing, he just sat there, but he wasn't smiling. The Winnie The Pooh stuffed doll with jingles that the photographer uses to get kids to smile wasn't going to cut it. So what did Dadda do? He howled like a wolf ( Read more... )

yesterday, Alexander officially was 8 months old. he's transformed so much in that time. his weight has tripled, his face has changed so much, his personality has evolved and he has such an inner as well as outer beauty. he's the dream child I've always wanted ( Read more... )

( or not! )

the town in question is called Jerome, and yesterday Shannon and I piled into the Mystery Machine to check it out.

Jerome Arizona's history is full of stories. these stories tell how the “Wickedest Town in The West” got its name and how men who sought their fortunes in this billion dollar mining camp lived, played and fought ( Read more... )