avablog

What up, unborn baby? Oh yeah. Not much, huh? That’s a uterus, for you! Hang in there. Anyway, your mom’s been hassling me about posting something here, and, well, I guess I may as well, even though there’s not much new to report. You kick a lot lately. Your mom feels it all the time. [...]

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I wish I’d come up with that line. Octuplets Mom Has 6 Other Kids “She is young,” the acquaintance says, “fairly young. She has six children already. And in those six children, she has a set of twins.”

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My Flickr stream doesn’t get a lot of action. Like the rest of the Internet — and everywhere else — hits are generated by images of cute girls. And if those cute girls are barely dressed, even better (a curious exception to this is this image, taken by my mother on a trip to France [...]

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Actually, it doesn’t. At all. There’s no going home again. And this attitude even after all the trouble we had conceiving…. Sure, we’re excited about the baby coming. We’re picking out names and car seats and trying to figure out finances. Leah has her eye on a co-sleeper. But, man, you never have that first [...]

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Ava with her stylist:

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I was driving around at noon, running errands, when I calculated that this is how many hours we see Ava each weekday. It’s just not enough. I try to convince myself that all Ava would be doing, were we together all day, would be watching Ruby and Max or coloring by herself at her table, [...]

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Ava became obsessed with Jell-O recently. I don’t even recall how it started, though I’m sure Leah will enlighten us. Must’ve been in a magazine, or something. Anyway, Leah finally relented to Ava’s constant whining and let her make some the other day. Ava wanted to cut the Jell-O into hearts, so we cut the [...]

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Yesterday Ava decided she wanted to go to the children’s museum, so we went to the children’s museum. There was a sweet moment on the way out when Ava adopted her serious voice from the back seat and proceeded to tell us that even though bad things happen in the world, like robberies, for example, [...]

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Hey, unborn baby. I took a couple more maternity photos of your mother over the weekend and thought you might enjoy a peek. Pretty, huh? I almost hope you’re a girl, just so these genes aren’t squandered on a boy. Next time, I’ll have to get her to stand on something on the bed, just [...]

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Greetings again, unborn baby. Two nights ago I felt you moving around in your mom’s belly for the first time. She’s been feeling you for a couple weeks, but you either haven’t been big or strong enough for those movements to be felt by the outside world. It’s a singular sensation. Even though I’ve seen [...]

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My mom often writes us nice summaries of her adventures with Ava on those days she stays with her. I was reading the latest one, and it sounded a lot to me like a blog post. So, here goes….

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Leah informed me recently that it’s time to take the 21-week pregnancy photo. In fact, I think it was this morning. I told her I’d grab my camera and take the picture right there in the bathroom as she did her makeup, but it wasn’t what she had in mind. We haven’t been taking weekly [...]

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Someday I’ll tell you about Spike Lee. But not today.

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Come on, now, Nathan. Really? I can’t believe there are that many Pepsi drinkers reading your blog. Or maybe they just like to enter contests? I guess this post is worth five entries, eh? Go Steelers!

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I know, right? “It’s about time.” I hear you. Seems like I should provide some sort of synopsis, even though most of you have heard the best tidbits by now. The big news, of course, is that Rachel and Kevin were robbed. Actually, their room was broken into, and the thieves made off with Kevin’s [...]

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As I was getting ready for work this morning, I had a moment’s pause when I thought it was only Sunday. Is it possible the weekend passed so quickly? Bah. We had fun celebrating my mom’s birthday, which included a couple dinners and sledding yesterday at a nearby elementary school. I debated whether to take [...]

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Hello to you again, unborn baby. Today your mother and sister and I went to get a look at you at our 20-week ultrasound appointment. Here’s what your profile looks like: Ava was eager to learn whether you’re a sister or a brother, but we told her she’ll have to wait to find out, just [...]

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Viva Mexico!

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It really didn’t even happen on the trip. Leah and Ava were separated from me on the plane home yesterday afternoon. It was sad. They were 5A and B, and I was 5F. I buried my nose in the kooky fantasy book I’d bought at the terminal in Cancun and tried not to think about [...]

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There’s a Mexican breakfast dish called huevos divorciados that is so f*#king tasty, it almost makes you want to get divorced just so you can remarry and then get divorced again. Pictures on the way….

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