The long crawl

Jillian’s got her game on, and has at long last begun crawling forward. As you can imagine she is thrilled by this new ability. Erin and I are trying to convince her to use her powers only for good, never for evil. Time to start doing a much more thorough...

Song titles

I asked Jonah for some song titles the other day. Here’s what he gave me: • “Bird, How Much I Love You” • “Raisin Corruptor” • “How Much Money Do You Have Left?” • “My Egg Got Broke in Jail.”...

10 days old

Jillian continues to sleep, eat, poop, sleep, eat, poop. There’s a little crying mixed in there, too, but not much. She’s a pretty docile kid thus far. Erin, who gets up with her, has even managed a six hour stretch of sleep at one point. Last night it was...

Jillian Elizabeth Davison

Born 8:04 PM on June 15, 2007. 7.12 lbs., 19.5 inches, a full head of black hair. But let’s start earlier in the day. Erin had a medical appointment at 9:45 AM, where we learned that after several days of irregular contractions she was still only 3 CM dilated....

My 4th birthday party

Brama, Poppers, Uncle Bret all came over, and we all went out for breakfast to my favorite restaurant, the Flight Deck. We had to wait a bit since it was unusually crowded, but the food was yummy as always, and I was pretty happy just walking around outside with...

Chinese dinner

I like to go out to eat. Sometimes I behave well. Sometimes I don’t. This one time, a few months ago, when I wasn’t behaving as well as I could, Mom and Dad got a big laugh out of the fortune from my yummy cookie: Don’t underestimate yourself. Your...