Yearly Archives: 2007

Oh, of course I can handle one more thing... As I'm giving Walker his bath tonight, Larry asks me, "Did you put the laundry in the machine?" "Um, no." There was a rather insistant hissing coming from the garage so Larry went down to investigate. Walker had been having a bit of a difficult time

As Walker gets older, I know there are things that I won't have anticipated that will need to be done. I'm sure there will be general kid things that will pop up but it's the BOY THINGS that give me a bit of anxiety. I started thinking about it the other day when Larry and

Everything I know about parenting I learned from my Tamagotchi. Get in your Way-Back Machine, travel to 1996 and recall the Tamagotchi digital pet fad where teens had small electronic pods that would simulate a growing entity that needed to be fed and changed on a regular basis. You knew how you were doing by

Last Thursday we met Charlie and Ryan (Stephanie's twin 2 year old boys) at the Zoo. It was a big day for everyone. Walker got to see a bunch of exotic animals (including a small monkey with a mustache and some funny penguins that would swim at top speed and leap into the air) and

The first thing you must know is Walker has a new nickname, "The Radish." I thought of it during one of the 4am feedings. He has this pointy little head that's accentuated with a tuft of hair. He just made me think of a vegetable and I happen to really like radishes (which are also

It always seems to happen that one thing breaks and then everything else follows. The day before Walker was born, our garage door decided to stop working. This after having it fixed back in January. And I only started parking the car in there back in late May after two years of keeping the car

It's been awhile since I posted last and now the pressure is on...Gigi is on the Internet. She bought a computer and a family friend is helping her get her wireless and browser set up so it automatically starts up with her email and the blog. Walker even had his live debut on the Internet

You'd think the small person who gurgles and cries and poops would have driven the point home but it took an incident yesterday to really cement the fact that, yes, I'm now a parent. Larry went to Safeway yesterday, July 19, to get fixin's for dinner. (The date is important.) I get a call from

We have a few competitions going on over here in The Cheese House (yes, that is what we call our house here by Ocean Beach -- very sophisticated, no? Or, would you prefer Chateau Fromage?). The first competition is something I recently noticed. I've commented on the cats' behavior since Walker has come home. I'm

Walker hasn't started walking, talking, or blogging (yet, give him another few weeks) but as a team, we've had a few small wins which I celebrate as "milestones" that keep me feeling like we're making progress toward normalcy. Dressed 4 days in a ROW! Yes, it seems unlikely but I've actually had non-jammies clothes on