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Today is Emmett’s second birthday. L and I sat on the couch early this morning and marveled at our little guy as he pushed his new backhoe loader around the floor at our feet. What a miracle he is. And not in that “every embryo is a baby” way, either. A quick look back: And […]

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We’ve been getting only the spent remnants of the storms that pounded Missouri and Kansas, but we did get a short burst of hail the other day. Ava and Emmett ran around the neighborhood, picking stones out of the grass wherever they could find them. Some of the pieces were pretty big!

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A little vid of AGP from her last riding lesson. The canter is a new thing in the last couple lessons. At first, Ava could barely hang on when Willie took off, but she’s getting better at her control, now. She certainly never hesitates to boss around that poor old horse (I feel his pain). […]

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agp summer dance It was pretty wonderful to watch Ava dance on the pedestrian mall this past Friday night. She was all alone out there, save for the shirtless drunk guy who appeared, wandered off, then reappeared to request his favorite song.

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Our friend Ken was nice enough to invite the kids out to see his beehives last evening. It was just about as perfect a day as you could imagine out at the orchard where Ken has his setup. The bees, as you might guess, were busy flying in and out of the hives, oblivious to […]

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Emmett likes to belly up to the counter at the island in the kitchen and watch me make scrambled eggs. Last week, I was going along with my scrambling one morning when I went to pour the eggs into the frying pan and happened looked up at Emmett, who was smiling the biggest, most beautiful […]

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petals n droplets I figure this shot alone justifies the purchase of my 100mm macro lens, even if I never sell a print. This flower has opened since I took this, and it’s beautiful, but I don’t think it’s ever going to be as pretty as it was in this moment.

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L has it. And bad. The memories of the traumatic births of our two children have, apparently, completely faded from her mind. Tristan Davison is mostly to blame, of course; If he hadn’t come along and been so stinking cute, we wouldn’t be where we are today.

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I suppose if someone as cute and funny and lovable as Emmett had been dropped into my life when I was four, I might’ve had a difficult time adjusting to it, too. So it’s understandable that Ava sometimes feels like we’re spending all our time and attention on Emmett, even if reality doesn’t support that […]

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We all trucked up to Mount Vernon yesterday to have brunch and and see the town’s annual Chalk the Walk event. The chalk was all fine and good, but it was a gorgeous day, and it was just nice to get out with L and the kids to do something fun. I even managed to […]

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Meet Tristan Louis Davison:

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