Tonight was Halloween and despite my best efforts to get Andy home from daycare and dressed early, it just didn't happen. The roads were...

It's almost Halloween and therefore time to start taking pictures in costume. My mom got Andy an awesome Spiderman outfit, but it's ...

The cut on his head is looking better, but now the swelling is spreading. This morning the redness has spread over his entire eyelid with a ...

Here's a picture from last night. Clearly, it's not as huge and enormous as I made it out to sound, but that sucker really did bleed...

Andy didn't sleep well last night, mostly due to Miles lingering in his room, and he woke up with his eye a little more swollen so we we...

High drama in the house today. My regular babysitter needed today off, Bjorn's out of town and it's the really, really busy season a...

My friend Andrea from camp was in town with her family for a wedding so we met up today at the National Zoo in Washington with her husband a...

My freshman year in college, my next door neighbor, Laura, and I spent a lot of time doing nothing, including watching Fame reruns and The L...

Guess who decided to fling himself over the side of the crib this morning? Granted, the crib railing was down, but still. This does not bode...

I just got back from a whirlwind 36-hour trip to New York. The work was awesome and went really well, but missed my boys something fierce. P...

One of my cousins is having a baby and my mom was asked to list some of the family names to see if some of them might be in style. While som...

Andy likes to drink water before he goes to bed. It's our fault for offering, but he seems to find it comforting and I didn't see mu...

Most days, I feel like I've got a general handle on this motherhood business. I know, I know, it's about time, but in my defense, th...

Andy and his grandmother driving. He really loved playing with these wooden trucks and the steering wheels. Note the hand stamp - this fa...

Good news - Andy really likes music. Bad news - he really likes his music all the time in lieu of anything anyone else (i.e. me) wants to li...

My mom left today after an all too quick visit. We had good fun and I think she taught Andy a dozen new words. Yesterday we hit the Burke Nu...

It's gotten pretty cool pretty fast, it seems, here in Washington so we've been breaking out the cold weather gear. I have been amus...

This kid may be the death of me. Lately, every time I turn around he's smacking me hard with something. It's unintentional stuff, bu...

It's pretty amazing to watch Andy's language skills develop. I swear this morning as I started to clean up his breakfast, he handed ...