ugh. i suck at updating this thing ( Read more... )

might as well do a little recapping while i sit around the office, waiting for a board meeting to start!

september 4-6evan's parents were already at the house when i got home friday. we spent the afternoon and evening at home visiting and playing with the baby. my friend eric is applying for a passport and had already turned in a birth ( Read more... )

today is our two year wedding anniversary. we agreed not to buy each other presents, and i am working at a board meeting in arlington tonight, so we can't even celebrate, but i thought it at least deserved a mention ( Read more... )

things are going really well at work. the commute and hours are so much better - i leave the house at the same time that i used to, but i get home around 1.5 hours earlier, and i get off at 2 pm on fridays. my desk is in between the payroll administrator and the desktop publisher, and i like them both. my boss found me an office to pump in. i'm ( Read more... )

my maternity leave flew by, especially the last few weeks. suddenly it was sunday afternoon and for the first time in three months, that really meant something. i cried for a while last night after we went to bed and evan hugged me and told me that he loved me and appreciated me. it took me a long time to fall asleep because i couldn't stop ( Read more... )

evan's brother rob and his friend kris arrived late thursday night after a super long drive from kentucky. it's rob's last week off before school starts back up, and the first time he's been able to see the baby ( Read more... )

yesterday stephen had his two month check up, at about two and a half months old. he hadn't been to the doctor since he was one week old and back then he was 8 lbs 7 oz and 21 inches. yesterday he was a whopping 13 lbs 6 oz and 24 inches! apparently our big boy is in the 95th and 90th percentile respectively. he had to get five vaccinations - ( Read more... )

saturday morning i packed the car up and headed over to my parents house with stephen around 5:45 am. evan stayed home, to spend the day working on music with steve. i had to pump, and then my dad and i met a buddy of his who has a boat and drove out to quantico to fish. dad's buddy spends a lot of time fishing and was supposed to give us some ( Read more... )

my parents had a cookout at their place on july 3, and we took the baby. martha, eric, brad, michelle, zach, and the mulligans were there. we had lots of food, played nertz, and relaxed on the deck. it was a great day. on the actual 4th, evan and i didn't do much. i love fireworks and i really wanted to see some, but not enough to try carting ( Read more... )

do not put down in writing how good your baby is; it's bound to bite you in the ass.