Archive for the ‘Family’ Category
City Girl
We had a great time camping with the Gibbys at Box Elder Campground near Mantua this week. Audrey had a ton of fun running around with her second cousins the Shaw kids. This was her first-ever camping trip. I realized that I’m raising a city girl when we were walking down a little […]
I married a handy girl! (or, The story of the swing set)
Sarah has always been very resourceful, which has been a great complement to my inherent cheapness during our marriage. Last fall, as she was going to visit her sister Becca in Sandy, she saw a swing set by the side of the road. She wanted it and she got it, even if it meant carrying […]
Spewing Audrey Out
Audrey has never been a big fan of hot meals. Since she was a baby, we’ve had to put her food in the freezer after it’s pulled out of the oven before she’d eat it. (For a while, she even thought the blessing on the food was so that her food could get cold.) But […]
And baby makes four
This morning Sarah woke up at 2:15 with pretty strong contractions. She got me up soon after, and we called for Becca (her sister and doula) to come help with the labor. We looked out the window and saw that it had snowed quite a bit overnight, so the roads were pretty bad. Becca and […]
Not quite visions of Sugarplums
Sarah and I spent Christmas Eve night at my parents’ house. Audrey was in the little toddler bed next to our bed. Sometime in the middle of the night, she started talking. “Bob the Builder. Can we fix it? Bob the Builder. Yes we can.” We’d never heard her talk in her sleep before, so […]
“Presents on the tree”?
Today in the car with Sarah, Audrey heard the song “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” on the radio. I wasn’t there and didn’t hear exactly what she said, but when she heard the line Please have snow and mistletoe and presents on the tree, she said in effect, “You don’t put presents on the tree. […]
Decking the Halls
We got all of our Christmas lights set up this week. Sarah’s game plan has been to add one strand of lights to our house every year — this year we’re up to four, spanning the entire front of the house and the railing going up to our front door. We also put up our […]
Baby announcement! (Oh boy!)
We’ve got a big announcement for everyone! We’re happy to tell you that we’re expecting a little boy — at our ultrasound today the tech told us that Sarah’s probably due at the end of January 2008. It took them a while to officially determine the gender, but we’re pretty confident in the results — […]
Freaking over flies
For the last few weeks, Audrey has been afraid of bugs in general, flies in particular. Every time she’d see one, she’d get agitated and shout at it, “Go ‘way, f’y!” (Her l’s are non-existent at this time. She doesn’t have r’s down yet either.) But a couple of days ago we were in the […]
Enter the Matrix (or The Matrix Revolutions)
Sarah finally convinced me to let her get a new car. We spent a couple of nights browsing used car lots, but she’d already had her heart set on the Toyota Matrix because she likes how it looks and it gets really good ratings from Consumer Reports. (She still likes the Honda Fit, but they’re […]