Archive for August, 2009

Month 9

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Dear Violet Today you turn 9 months old. You’ve spent as much time outside my belly as you did inside my belly. Almost. I still haven’t forgiven you for that extra week. Life just keeps getting better, Violet. When I come home from work, you scream out loud and wave your hands up and down. [...]

White Weekend

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

French fries always bring people closer together. I’m doing some moonlighting for extra cash, and it’s brought back some bad habits I had as a resident. When I was on ward months, if I had a particularly stressful call night, I wouldn’t be able to sleep the following day or night- especially if I had [...]

Baby on the go

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

I’ve been able to spend the last 3 days home with Violet, and things have changed in the last 8 weeks. She moves SO FAST. She has become adept at cruising-

Dinner party: Parent Style

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

New Toys. On Monday, our lovely friends Becca and Chris hosted a very ambitious dinner party with all of our friends. Dinner parties are different now.

Zoo Number 2

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

These are a couple of weeks old, but my dad still hasn’t received his Father’s day gift. In comparison, I’m doing okay keeping up with the blog. When Matt went down to Albuquerque to quit Sandia, Stan and Karen came to help me with the kid. We went to the zoo. (again). We bought season [...]