So I can remember them -
Instead of asking "what day is today?" to hear the day of the week, James always asks "what today is today?"
He also uses "golden" rather than "gold" (as in, his favorite colors are purple, blue, red, green, and golden.)
Cow udders are "gutters"
"The End" is always "Be End"

Just about a year ago we closed on our house, and I found out I was pregnant with Matthew. It finished off a very emotional Dec. I was still reeling from the second miscarriage and the death of Molly. My family came for Christmas amid our half-packed up condo. Then came our move, a healthy ultrasound, a missed miscarriage and scary ER trip, and ( Read more... )

At night, after brushing teeth, reading books, and one last drink of milk, we lay in James' bed and do "questions". (I go first, then leave, then Dave gets in the bed. James has very strict rules about these things.) James asks us questions, we ask him questions, and we just talk for a while. He picks the subject matter from "silly questions" ( Read more... )

Goodbye San Francisco. I've lived here longer than anywhere else in my life. For a long time I couldn't imagine living anywhere else, but I guess, after a decade, I'm allowed to change my mind ( Read more... )

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I had a really good weekend this weekend. Dave left very early Sat morning for SoCal for a beach ultimate tournament, so I was solo parenting from 4:30am Sat to 8pm Sunday. Going in to the weekend, I was scared about that. I tend to get pretty exhausted and then pretty cranky with James when I can't keep up with his energy level. But it was ( Read more... )

James says a number of words to name things - doggie, ducky, dotti (his blanket), dada, mommy, mao (his word for cats, squirrels, lions, tigers and raccoons), momo (motorcycle), bah (bus), ball, bubble, nope (no as the answer to a question), no no no (something that is not allowed), yeah, night-night, byebye, wawa (water), more (with sign as well ( Read more... )

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Fastronauts made the first round of the Greener Gadget competition.  I've spent the morning shamelessly asking for votes.  You should vote too! http://www.core77.com/greenergadgets/ .

Part of me thinks this whole online voting thing is another high-school-esque popularity contest and feels bad asking for votes.  But I assume everyone else is doing ( Read more... )

I just entered my thesis in a design contest (Greener Gadgets by Coroflot).  I hope it does well - I think it's much better than a lot of the ones that made the final cut last year, but maybe this year there all the ideas will have stepped it up a notch.  They extended the deadline, which I hope means they didn't get many good ideas and hoped to be ( Read more... )