Growing up too fast

It is snowing. Right now, as I type. As my officemate put it when he saw my delighted expression: “You’re a three-year-old!”

It has been a long couple of months at our house. I took the server down in February after we had a security issue. I haven’t had enough time to spend to get things straightened out so I punted on it for a while. Tonight I decided it was about time I […]

After nearly a month of technical difficulties (er… not having time to fix the server), we are finally back up and running here at jimandgigi.com. Lots has changed in the last month. Evie not only mastered crawling, but she’s pulling up now, too. Zane is beginning to learn such skills as telling […]

Yoky Matsuoka, a robotics researcher at UW, recently won a MacArthur Foundation “genius award.”
From the article:
“The MacArthur Foundation official who notifies genius-award winners issues a standard warning when the unsuspecting recipients pick up the phone: ‘I’ve got shocking news,’ he says. ‘If you’re holding anything fragile — like a baby — you might want to […]

In response to the ever recurring debate over breastfeeding.

There’s so much to write about our trip to the Outer Banks that I just didn’t write anything at all. Maybe I’ll try some bullet points…

Traveling with a bicycle in a case is a pain, especially when you’re also traveling with 2 young children and their car seats. All in all, the traveling […]

I’ve reached an age when candles are to be read instead of counted.

I also managed to do a better job with the dairy-free cake for my birthday than the
disaster that was Jim’s cake.

Last Monday we discovered our credit card had been used fraudulently. We spent a chunk of time “cleaning up” that mess but fortunately it was only an inconvenience. Friday morning, when I walked out of the house to take Zane to preschool, I was confronted with a disturbing sight. Two windows of […]

Well, Evie is on my team, she’s a pinhead. Zane is decidedly a pumpkinhead, so he’s on Jim’s team. Zane and I can share hats and sunglasses already. Zane was consistently in the 50th percentile for height and weight and the 75th or higher for head circumference. Evie is also in […]

We are midway through my first week as a postdoc. Evie is coming with me temporarily while we wait through the outrageously long infant wait list at day care. It feels really good to get back to research and be back in an academic environment. I have been trying to keep up […]