Growing up too fast

Zane was SO GOOD today. Not that he’s usually a bad kid or anything, but today he was just so good. He was in the best mood. Very silly and talkative and he did a lot of entertaining himself and singing and dancing. I was just ridiculously proud. We even […]

5. Number of cars we’ve sold since we’ve been together.
4. Number of days since we’ve seen each other.
3. Number of places we’ve lived together.
2. We are two people more in love with each other each year.
1. We have one beautiful, amazing child.
November 3, 2001 was the day Jim and I went to the […]

The little fat book called 14,000 things to be happy about has stared at me from my bookshelf everywhere that I have lived since i left college. Someone gave it to me because they knew I needed it at that time. I can’t actually remember who that was. I went through a […]

I certainly don’t remember how I spent Halloween when I was two years old but I’d like to think I had half as good a time as Zane did today. The build up was almost as intense as for his birthday. At home it’s been mainly getting his costume ready since we haven’t […]

I haven’t been able to write because of a paper deadline coming up but I did finally post most of the pictures we’ve taken since we moved to Texas.

For the past few days I have been here, enjoying a few days with other women in computing (and even a few men). It was the first time since Zane was born that I spent a night (much less three) away from him. While I don’t plan to make a habit of it, […]

Go back up your important files. Right now. Don’t lose a ton of data because you haven’t backed up regularly enough and your hard drive suddenly completely dies. Even if it’s incredibly inconvenient to back everything up, DO IT! Oh, and if you buy a laptop, get one with a 3 […]

An alternative title for this post could be “Pull My Finger!” but I felt that might be unnecessarily obvious. Zane, showing ever more clearly that he is a product of his father, has taken to announcing exclaiming this when he farts. Then announcing “I farted” with a huge smile (and waiting for me […]

Happy Birthday Zane!
Today Zane turns 2 years old and has finally reached the day when he can blow out the candles and open the presents. The build up to this birthday has been tremendous in his little toddler mind. Jim has been counting down the days for 2 months (although he’s […]

Yesterday Jim was sitting on the floor next to Zane playing with him when Zane pushed on him and said:
“Lie down daddy! Time to change your diaper.”
He picked up a screwdriver from his toolbox (his favorite “toys”) and pretended to use the screwdriver on Jim. At one point he actually switched to a […]