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this past weekend my little family and i celebrated our first pride together ( Read more... )

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in the last month:

my youngest brother and his really sweet gal came to vancity for a visit

we did the stanley park bike ride

we drove to seattle and back in one day

ate A LOT of delicious fish and chips

i got sick of eating fish and chips

the cat pooped in the sandbox (and i have a pretty good idea which one)

we almost broke the dyson vacuuming ( Read more... )

the wife has been cooking up this idea for awhile, of repurposing an old ikea table we've relegated to the balcony (unloved, unused, unpretty) into a sandbox for z. and so she did.

first she turned the table upside down(z loved helping).


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this mom sang her very first duet with her son ( Read more... )

i've been working hard at the job that pays lately on a challenging project that just isn't over yet ( Read more... )

i work odd hours, its true. it's not even 05:00 PST and i'm up and ready to work because the wife and i 'flex'our schedules twice a week to ensure z doesn't need to go to daycare at least until he turns 2 ( Read more... )

little z has been under the weather this week. and so it's been stressful in our home: what with the temperature-taking, fretting, feeding, and extra-comforting that comes with a baby with a cold - nevermind the regular chores or the full-time job (with its own brand of the unexpected) that comes in between ( Read more... )

and we're making lots of changes around the house. you may remember this post about redecorating our second bed room in anticipation of z's arrival ( Read more... )