Well there you have it. We have a 2 year old. He sure is smiley. This kid talks up a storm. At his 2 year doctor’s appointment the questionnaire asked if he was stringing two or three words together into phrases. I went home and started to take notice and most of his sentences are 6-8 words long these days.… Read more →
Dear Gisbert
In 6 weeks a new little boy will be joining our family. Quite honestly I haven’t had as much time to reflect and write about this pregnancy experience as I did last time. Life is moving in days and weeks instead of minutes and hours right now. I imagine adding a new person will accelerate its pace even more. I… Read more →
Mommy Mommy Mommy Mommy Mommy!
What a month of comings and goings in the Baxter house! In January friends Larissa and Mark visited during the Sundance film festival, the first week of February Jason spent a week on a work trip near Boston, and the same day he returned, my mom, grandma and grandpa arrived for a 5 day stay. Now I think it is… Read more →
Winter Busy-ness
For some reason I had imagined a couple months of winter in which I sat in front of the fireplace and couldn’t find anything better to do than drink hot cocoa. Turns out I am not having that kind of winter. As soon as the yard work ended with the first snowfall our indoor projects have begun. I’ve painted all… Read more →
Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy!
Well then. We have a small announcement to make. We’re having another BOY!! William is going to have a little brother! I am over-the-moon excited. More excited than Jason I think. We had our 20 week ultrasound and everything looked good. We didn’t get any good pictures this time because the little bugger is uncooperative (already), and insisted on being… Read more →
2013 Christmas Letter (courtesy of Jason)
Happy Holidays Everyone! We started 2013 off with a real bang. Picking up from last year’s letter, Steph tried winning a Darwin award on Christmas day. She had been sick with the flu, and sent William and I off to Christmas without her. She decided she was feeling better partway through the day and tried to continue a wallpaper peeling… Read more →
Upside Down and Backwards
I’ve been wanting to blog for at least a week now, but haven’t quite been able to find the right mood. The last month around here has been rather hectic. After a couple years of working 4 10-hour days, Jason got notice his schedule would be going back to 5 8-hour days. His assigned shift was 6:30-3:00 which was nice for… Read more →
The Cat is Out of the Bag
So last month I wrote in my blog that I pretty much lost the entire month of September. This in fact was a small white lie. In fact in September I was working on a very little BIG project. This project involved lots of naps, early bedtimes, and some very queasy mornings…nights… afternoons. Can you guess what it was? At 13 weeks,… Read more →
I lost a month
I lost the month of September. I really try to post each month, and somehow last month just escaped me. Last month Jason and I celebrated William’s 18-month milestone by getting a babysitter (Grandma) and attending a concert (Ben Folds). It was fantastic! In September Will transitioned from fast walking to all-out running and started to express and interest in climbing. This… Read more →
Dog days of Summer
I don’t know exactly when the astrological “dog days of summer” are supposed to occur this year, but I’m hoping they are just about over. We had a record setting month of July with 10 days of 100 degrees or better (and quite a few high 90’s that didn’t quite make it). At the half-way point of August we’ve only… Read more →