I took so many photos of Jasper this weekend that I wanted to share but haven’t had time to edit them properly so a video will have to do!

My dad reminded me that I should be taking more videos …

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Thank you for all the wonderful 1st birthday present ideas!

I couldn’t resist posting this little video that so perfectly illustrates the sequences developmental leap that we discussed yesterday.  Not only does Jasper realize that the lid should go …

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Thank you all for casting your votes on the invite choices. As I indicated in a comment, I decided to go with #1 once I saw what Lindsay pointed out: The curly cues in the font mimic the monkey’s tail …

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I STILL haven’t had a chance to edit the pictures I took over the weekend – work has been crazy! But, here is a video of Jasper’s first swim. Well, technically not his FIRST swim because my parent’s have a …

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I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend! I have so many images and videos from the weekend that I need a day or two more to put them in some sort of coherent post, so this morning I’m …

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Yesterday Jasper started strolling around his baby jail as if he’d been doing it his whole life (witness the middle clip of him walking WHILE chewing ice in the mesh feeder!)

It was amazing to watch the little light bulb …

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As promised, here is my brief review of the new HD pocket camcorder I ordered a few weeks ago when Amazon had it as the gold box deal for just $130 (the current price fluctuates daily, but as of this …

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Shot with my Tamron AF 28-75mm f/2.8 Lens lens and canon 430 ex II speedlite at these settings:
f4.0
SS 1/6oth
ISO 200

SO this is a real email I received over the weekend:

Subject: child of the future

Message:

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A few weeks ago Jasper started making these little kissy sounds. It’s so unbearably cute I have to grit my teeth whenever he does it. Normally he’ll kiss a few times in a row, but last night he wasn’t feeling …

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As promised, we return to our regularly scheduled parenting programming.. and it’s a good one. Jasper’s first steps!

I’m standing on the other side of baby jail and he wants to get to me so badly that he’s  trying to …

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