I spent 20 minutes this morning snuggling with Ellen in bed. We gazed at each other, and smiled, and laughed, and talked and kissed and decided we were each other's biggest fans. We checked to make sure the dipples were still there every so often, and sure enough, they were. There is nothing as sweet as waking up to a eye crinkling grin of joy from my daughter. She is an angel on loan to me - a round, jowely, plump, dimpled angel.

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S and I are far more on the same page than I thought. We had a nice evening yesterday – dinner together outside, while Ellen slept and Will threw the ball and played with Ripple. That’s really all I’m looking for.

Will has the most amazing throwing arm – he’s left handed, too, which S tells me is in demand in the major leagues (insert eye roll here). While I refuse to be yet another American parent who pushes sports as the only arena for my son to excel in, I am VERY impressed with his speed, ...

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My mother has been diagnosed with the chronic version of Guillan Barre, called “Chronic Inflammatory Demylenating Polyneuropathy.” In the short term it means she has to have regular immunoglobulin infusions. Long term, it means she may never have normal use of her legs and hands again unless she response well to the continued treatment. I think I’d be be more optimistic about it if it hadn’t already been dragged out so long and discouragingly (her back pain masking the GB symptoms for months, th ...

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Where does the time go?

I knew that having two kids, instead of just one, would affect my daily routine and life and free time and finances and EVERYTHING, but I didn’t know exactly how. Its hard. Its okay, but its hard. Everything non-essential their survival just gets scaled back. For example, I’ve been working on my picture book of Ellen’s birth and Christmas and our trip to AZ for months now, and I can’t seem to make progress. Another example – I can’t blog regularly because there is no ...

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It cracks me up when Ellen poops. She gets SOOO into it. And looks so self-satisfied. She grins at me through the straining and grunts. I think she knows it makes me laugh.

She can a 1/4 turn from her back to her side. She is fairly deliberate about reaching for objects and trying to bring them to her mouth. She talks and coos for long periods of time with or without another person to interact with. I think she is trying to yell, but it just come out as open mouth coughs.

She grins at Will ...

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