Scarlett is five months old and continuing to thrive! We've reached a bit of a speed bump in that these days, she constantly needs attention. It's pretty much 24 hours a day that one of us has to be with her. She no longer naps throughout the day and night but now naps perhaps twenty minutes at a time only a few times a day with perhaps one or two ( Read more... )

We didn't see the pediatrician at the three-month-mark but we did a week ago for the four month mark. Scarlett is just thriving. She's now fifteen pounds and 26.5 inches long, putting her in the 99th percentile for height supposedly. They weren't concerned about anything and outside of the trauma of getting poked with needles for vaccines, all was ( Read more... )

Welcome Scarlett Jane Rose
Born Sunday, March 19th, at 2:45am weighing 6lbs 11ozIt happened! My daughter is here! A new little rabbit and her name is Scarlett. As we had hoped, she was exactly one week late, coming into the world at exactly 41 weeks and affording her parents an extra week to prepare. The birth event itself was fairly uneventful. On ( Read more... )

This is it! We're within two weeks of our first child's due date. The next time I write a journal entry in late March, I'll be a father! So this is my last entry as a non-parent. You could draw a line right here between entries where my life was one way and all the rest where my life is another way. Nicole and I have discussed this journal being a ( Read more... )

During April, Nicole's mom decided to come to Oregon for a visit alone without her husband. Nicole gets along with her mom better than she does with her dad, so this was an opportunity to see her without the stress of both parents here. It was also a great opportunity to host someone with the house more or less ready for visitors. The house is ( Read more... )

I'm sure 2020 will go down in history as one of the strangest years in recent memory in America. For Nicole, Chip and me, it's been an interesting year. Let's recap.

In January, we began a low-carb diet which cut out fast food and junk food of all kinds. We've continued the diet ever since. February saw us take a vacation on the Oregon coast which ( Read more... )

Leap Year entry! Looking back through 18 years of entries, I see I've never posted on a Leap Day until today. How fun ( Read more... )

It's been a rough winter. I heard somewhere that people are trying to sue the groundhog for incorrectly predicting spring close at hand. Right up until April, we've had freezing mornings and snow here in the Pacific Northwest. There've even been days I've had to work from home because of the ice on the roads ( Read more... )

2018 was a building year. If 2017 was the year my family began to repair and grow from the loss of my father in December of 2016, then 2018 was the year we picked up speed on our way to what should be a successful if not triumphant 2019. Let's talk about it.

In January, I bought a new laptop and we met Nicole's best friend's baby girl, Mabel. ( Read more... )

At the beginning of October, I did indeed end up flying out to Alabama to help my extended family say goodbye to my recently departed grandmother on my father's side. It was great to see so much extended family even considering the grim circumstances. Nicole decided against joining me, so I made the journey with my cousins. There were eight of us ( Read more... )