I certainly hope you’re not here to get some pearls of wisdom on parenting. This is just me expressing my thoughts.

Brody was born in early June of this year, 6/7/08 actually. Since then my flickr stream has been chock full of photos of Brody. He is the cutest little baby you’ve seen, so it’s tough not to keep snapping pics of him. This also keeps family and friends satisfied with new photos of him; they are all very aware of his page on our site, and are instructed regularly to go there if they want to see new photos of him. This is especially nice as we (and that really means “I”) don’t have to fiddle around every week or so with sending an email out to everyone with images attached.  Continue →

A couple of weeks ago, we graduated Brody to rice cereal. So, now we venture into the world of messy-faced spoon feedings. Click through for a short video of one of his recent meals.
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Consider this post a new method of “marking my calendar” to keep note of an important event. While I was waking Brody this morning to get him ready for the day, he looked up at his mobile while propping himself up on his arms. Then he started rolling onto his side… I told Melanie: “quick, get in here”. Continue →

Here is a comparison of words used in the acceptance speeches of McCain and Obama at their respective conventions. Bigger words appear more frequently in the cloud.

McCain’s is shown first and then Obama’s.

This year, on our annual day at the Orange County Fair, we had one extra family member. Brody was initiated into our black and white booth photo tradition. I’ve even updated the header image for our site… just look up at the top-right.