After a morning of church, Easter baskets, egg hunts and brunch at Talulla, we headed over to my parents for the afternoon. And can you believe it, the Easter Bunny came to their house too! Ella searched and searched for more eggs, while Owen hung out with Papa and Grandma: The Easter Bunny was definitely [...]
At 4:19 a.m. on December 27 – precisely 19 minutes after we pulled up at the hospital’s front doors* – Owen James Clarke made his first foray into the ex utero world. Relevant figures include: 10 fingers, 10 toes, 2 ears, 7 lbs. 7 oz., 1 nose, 20.5 inches, 1 set of great vocal cords, [...]
[It has been a rather busy week here, so we're a little slow with things we'd like to post about, but we will eventually catch up as sleep schedules allow.] This year, for the first time, Ella really seemed to “get” Christmas. No, not in the Luke 1:26 – 2:40 sort of way, or even [...]
Several of the more recent posts have detailed our trip to St. Martin, but a prominant member of the household wasn’t mentioned often. While she does have a passport (and it’s an incredibly cute picture!), Ella didn’t come with us to St. Martin, but got to spend the better part of a week with Grandma [...]
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NOW it’s official! I can pull that “(expected)” off the resume; can tear up my Amtrak Select card; and am already 1/3 of the way through my first non-textbook in months. This past weekend, we went up to New York for the graduation ceremony and had a great time – made possible by my parents [...]
What a busy, fun day yesterday was! We joined Ella at daycare for her party, and had fun both sharing cake with Ella and her classmates as well as playing with them: After coming home, Ella helped us put together her Pretend Soup appetizer (from Molly Katzen’s book of the same name) by washing the [...]
