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Party at Bleslie’s

I’ve been thinking lately how inconsistent I am at doing my blog posts, and I feel bad about it, especially because I have three small kids whose days I don’t document as I used to… Hazel’s still adjusting to being in the neighborhood with a lot of people that walk around. Anyway, I’m thinking maybe […]

Easter Weekend 2020

or Griffin’s First Easter or Griffin’s First Steps or An Impromptu but Much-Anticipated Visit Tristen got up with boys Saturday morning. Fawkes and Phoenix somehow got out of the playroom and burst into the bedroom a bit after 8:00, maybe around 8:30? I was already awake and was going to get up soon anyway. They […]

Fawkes and Phoenix’s Second Birthday

[Editor’s note: This is being written about a month and a half after the actual event.] Fawkes and Phoenix had the privilege of celebrating their birthday on two different days in two different countries. Their first celebration occurred while we were still on our vacation in Cozumel. They had picked up a number of fans […]

No More Cribs for Fawkes and Phoenix

With Fawkes’s newfound ability to get out of his crib, Tristen and I discussed converting the cribs into beds. We somewhat nonchalantly decided to go ahead and do that this weekend. One bonus to going ahead and getting them acclimated to sleeping without a crib is that they should certainly be used to it by […]

The Fawkes and Phoenix Flour Fiasco

I’ve worked really odd hours the last couple nights. Sometimes I leave the TV on for some background noise. Tonight it was Goonies and last night it was Notting Hill. Griffin, who has this thing he likes to do where he wakes up at 2AM, watched a little bit of the latter with me the […]