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The weatherpeople on our local TV news stations have been all atwitter this past week with the threat of snow finally becoming a reality. The past couple of winters were pretty action-packed, but this one has so far been a dud. And competition is a wonderful thing. Most stations are trying to keep us glued […]

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{mosimage} Susie spent some time this weekend adding new photos to the site. There are two new albums — one of Susie’s trip to the zoo, and another with some shots of the kids taken while Susie was experimenting with light and posing for a future photo shoot.

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{mosimage} Rachel’s almost 4-and-a-half months old now. She’s can’t quite sit up yet, but she really wants to be able to, so now we prop her up wherever we can. The couch, where we took this video, is one of her favorite spots because she can watch her brother and sisters play. Click on the […]

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{mosimage}Rachel turned one month old today. We took some video of Rachel yesterday while she was awake and happy. You can view it by clicking on the picture of Rachel at the left. Some of the video is a bit shaky — I had to shoot it while Seth scaled my back trying to get […]

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We had the wonderful opportunity to live close enough to Washington, D.C. to be able to participate in the funeral ceremonies for President Reagan. On Wednesday, June 9, 2004, we decided to take the kids to the funeral procession down Constitution Avenue. We hesitated all day, wondering if we really wanted to do battle with […]

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As most of you know — but we still wanted to do a blog entry anyway — Rachel finally joined our family on May 20, 2004. It has taken us so long to get the news out because we had a very hard time deciding on a name. We were ourselves tired of referring to […]

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Maryland is absolutely beautiful this time of year. Although I’ll take California weather over Maryland any time, having 4 seasons is actually pretty awesome. It’s not that I like winter – everything is gray, cold, and barren – it’s that the contrast between winter and spring is so stark that spring arrives as a wonderful […]

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Seth was in my basement office the other day and somehow managed to find the “Cha Cha Bear” that we stashed away, hoping it wouldn’t be found until the kids reached voting age. But Seth dug it out and pleaded with us to make it dance. So we did, and once again, as it has […]

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Seth was becoming quite the hair farmer so we gave him a buzz tonite. The pre-picture is on the left. If you click ‘read more’ you can see the results. Seth is also really into “helping” lately. He can’t speak very well – I’m not sure he thinks it’s worth the effort with two doting […]

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For better or worse, the soon-to-be baby has a nickname, and I guess an explanation is in order… When we had the first ultrasound, the doctor was concerned that the due date was wrong because the baby was so small relative to her gestational age. Somehow, that little fact resulted in the nickname “snowball”. When […]

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