Today marks the official 2-week countdown. Jen has stopped working, and my cell phone is permanently attached to my hip. The suitcase is packed, and it is in the back of the car along with the car seat. I can’t believe we are already here!
Jen continues to do well, though she is clearly approaching the [...]

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I’ve always held that the only drivers worse than Washingtonians were Oregonians. (Note: I spent the first 23 years of my life in Washington, and I’ve lived the last 12+ in Oregon.) So imagine my surprise when I saw the results from a 20-question driving test administered to over 5,000 drivers nationwide. It turns out [...]

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If I told you that the CEO of Intel Corp.–the very company that makes the CPUs on which Windows runs–revealed that he spends an hour each weekend scrubbing spyware off his daughter’s PC, you’d probably accuse me of engaging in a little friendly hyperbole. If I told you he thinks you should buy a Mac [...]

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Each weekend, we get a few more items checked off our seemingly infinite list of projects and to-do items! Much of our attention lately has been focused on getting the baby’s room into shape. We’ve been assembling, hanging, and mounting variety of things. The thumbnails below link to a few more photos.
Adventure Gallery: Baby’s Room

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We’ve set up an email distribution list for our friends and family who want to be notified as soon as the baby is born. I’ll be able to send out a short email to this list from the hospital. You can sign up on the baby page — just enter your email address in the [...]

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Ok, I’ll admit that this is slightly twisted. (And Jen is on record expressing her, uh, “apprehension” about my latest project.) But I just couldn’t resist this once I had the idea. So I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning creating this little gem. Go to our Baby Page and click on [...]

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The Pregnancy
I thought it was about time to give another update on the pregnancy. We are just over 4 weeks away from the due date of June 14. Jen continues to be doing very well. There is some fatigue, of course. And she is having to deal with rapidly declining mobility. (Even though it is [...]

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As they say, it’s better late than never. We finally got a few plants put into our raised beds. We’ve been so consumed with baby-related projects that we just kept putting the garden off. Last weekend, we finally made it down to the local farmer’s market where we bought some plant starts. And tonight, [...]

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While it has been covered extensively elsewhere, I just wanted to say thanks to our good friends Tim & Kim for the hmmf-hmmf shower they threw for us last weekend. Jen & I — and the hmmf-hmmf — had a great time. The undersea-themed ice cream cake (pictured here) was fantastic — and perfectly [...]

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It’s 6am. We’re sound asleep as Gauss emits a single, powerful, alert bark. Slightly dazed, I rant, “It’s just the newspaper being delivered! Go back to bed, Gauss!” (Except, Gauss stopped barking at the newspaper carrier a long time ago.) A couple minutes later, Jen realizes that the power is out. Hmm… loud noise [...]

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