Category: family life

How I met my wife, part 2 — the space between

So in my previous post, I skipped a few years, and I’m going to go back and fill some details in for you.

When I was younger, like most young kids at the time, I was fascinated with space, astronomy (not astrology), space exploration, space pictures, and basically anything to do with space and/or science. My favorite subjects in school were math and science, later to become a degree in physics, and when I was in elementary, I desperately wanted to be an astronaut. But as I found out later, this was not uncommon. I was in the Young Astronauts club in elementary, tried a couple of times to compete in science fairs, was a member of the science club in jr. high, and was basically a science geek all through my school years.

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pics of the berry

So Josh came over and hung out with us all day today, and Josh being ‘Captain Camera’ lately, had his camera with him, so he started snapping pics of my little cherub. I kindly asked if I could take some (ok, fine, I took the camera from him), and took some pictures myself. Here are the best from that set…

As you can see, I’m quite the fan of the close-up. Some people might call it “the angles”.  Whatever it is, I love it.

There is no post-processing on these, so they could probably look even better, but I couldn’t wait to post them, I think they’re pretty good the way they are.

…and I didn’t take the feetsie one, but it is pretty much what I had envisioned when I told Josh to take some pictures of her feet.

EDIT: sorry, these are too cute to hide behind a more tag :)

How I met my wife, part 1 — Meeting my second love

So a few years ago, I was thinking about what transpired to make me the person I am today, and how things work to open your eyes to the people you meet, and eventually to the person who matters the most to you. I started thinking back to the events that led to me meeting my wife, and realized that it goes back quite a ways, and includes events in my life that I never would have imagined would lead to me meeting my wife.

This is the story of those events, and it’s a long one, so I’m breaking it up into several installments.

It begins in the first grade (I know, right? first grade!).

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the awesome power of air

So I was feeding Skye some apparently delicious yams, and was video taping it, because she was eating them like an actual person and loving it, all the while chatting it up like it was Sunday Brunch. I stopped taping for a moment, so I could turn her chair and get a better angle on her, started the camera up, she started talking, I gave her one bite, and then BAM!!

Video after the break.

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What can a 6 month old Skyeberry do?

She sits!!

She eats squash! (well, sort of)

And she looks cute!

On a side note:

The other night while I was walking Sam I had unexpected nostalgia. It hasn’t been this frigid since last year and last winter was when I was pregnant. The brisk air reminded me of walking in the cold air when Skye was in my belly, and…I totally missed that feeling!  I couldn’t believe it, I never, ever, ever, ever thought I’d be one to miss being pregnant. For a moment though, I did. I missed feeling her kicks and hiccups and that tight, inevitable bond from giving up one’s body for the life of another. Maybe I should go back to my pregnancy journal and jog my real memory!

baby soft breaths

When Skye was born, one of the first things the main nurse that was in the room with us during the C-section had us do, was try to get in some skin-to-skin time as soon as possible. For normal people, this might have been in a few minutes when they had finished stitching up my wife, and had wheeled her back into her room, possibly after she had regained a modicum of consciousness—but not this nurse, she wanted it now.  Continue reading “baby soft breaths”