avablog

Let’s face it: The kid owes me something for my having stayed home with him all this week while he gets over his feverish coughing sickness.

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My beloved SIL was, I hear, distraught when she learned we didn’t have a baby book underway for Emmett. I understand that this is a sensitive subject for Rachel, the second child, whose own baby book consists of a first page announcing her birth followed by page after blank, infuriating page of nothing. Were you […]

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This blog is hardly useful (fun?) if we (read: I) don’t use it to present information about our kids’ development. Emmett’s going through some changes, so I thought I’d share.

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Yes, Ava cut herself some new bangs this past weekend.

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I’ll just keep posting this stuff until either someone cries “uncle.” Video taken this morning of Emmett hanging out in one of his favorite spots: Note that he’d much rather stand outside the activity center like this than hang by his crotch inside it. And who could blame him…? I had to sneak up on […]

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Chalk. I came around the corner into the living room last evening to discover Emmett — who, only seconds before, had been sitting in the middle of the floor — standing at his sister’s blackboard easel. He had his hands on the chalk tray and a piece of chalk in each palm. I pried the […]

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This video is fresh out of the camera today. I hope Emmett isn’t one of those kids who walks before he crawls. I hear they have all kinds of problems as a result.

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Apologies to those of you who look at our flickr stream regularly, but I can’t resist this shot of Emmett Charles fresh out of the tub. As Dave Hill would say, I hope you love it so much.

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Sometimes I wonder if it’s possible to take a picture that’s so cute, it makes the viewer vomit upon seeing it. Wouldn’t that be weird? Anyway, if this turns out to be that picture for you, I apologize in advance.

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I spent the day at home with Emmett yesterday, as a mild fever kept him out of daycare. It was mostly good times. Even now, the boy seems to have a good sense of humor, an observation based mostly on the fact that I can get him to laugh, heartily, without even trying.

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I suppose if I were a little kid who was into dolls, and I had a new sibling, feeding that little sibling would be about the coolest thing in the world. Turns out being fed by your big sibling is pretty cool, too.

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It seemed like a good idea at the time. We were all upstairs, bathing and feeding and getting ready for bed. I took Emmett into Ava’s room and sat with him for a bit. He kept craning his neck to see the big ladybug nightlight Ava keeps on her bed. So I set Emmett on […]

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Lamest post title ever? Probably so. I figure you should be used to it by now. Leah’s just back from the doctor’s office with Emmett, who has his very first ear infection. His big sis, you may recall, was positively plagued by them in her first year or so of life. Then she got tubes […]

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But I somehow manage to carry on.

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Emmett and Leah (and Ava, again) are still home sick today. When I went home for lunch yesterday, I got some pictures of the boy with my 100mm macro lens. They turned out OK.

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Leah keeps threatening me she’s going to set up an appointment at Flash for a family portrait. I hate Flash. I might as well get that out there right now. Anyway, I’m telling her not to do it, that I’ll take the shots. She’s unconvinced. So I set up a little studio in the living […]

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I wonder if there’s a costume in the world that could be less scary than this one. Maybe a cotton ball costume. That said, if you do happen to have some strong fear of cows, please, avert thine eyes now.

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