Over nine years ago, my mother and I witnessed a car/pedestrian accident that, sadly, ended up causing the pedestrian’s death a week later.  It’s one of those things that you hope never happens, and then, once it does, hope never happens in front of you again. Yesterday, it happened again. I was driving back to […]

Guess who gave his mother his very first real smile on Wednesday!  And I had the camera in my hand, but my finger was just a couple of seconds too slow on the shutter.  So this was the “two seconds after” shot. It’s still pretty cute!  But I tried and tried to get another one […]

So.  Yeah.  I’m fine, Thumper’s fine, the kids are fine. The car is actually okay, too – it is driveable. Monday afternoon, we were headed to Grandma’s house to drop off Ane and Rerun, so then I could take Tad to speech therapy, as usual.  But on the way there, we got rear-ended. The bumper […]

Weight: 18 pounds, 9 ounces Length: 28 1/4 inches Shots: 4  🙁 Cuteness: At least 90th percentile New food: green beans!  His palate is expanding!