These Two Hands

So far Sofía has a quantity of nicknames in inverse proportion to her size: Little Turtle Face Stinky McStinkersonpants Little Sticky Milkface Fat Baby Sweetiepants Squirmy Wormy Little Frog Taco!

I should be proud of her … she slept a whole 3 hours last night! In a row! Newish pics up (I think) at Josh’s gallery.

Sofía Elena McFadden Born July 15, 4:12 am 7 lbs, 0.4 oz, 21″ Labor time: 1 hour Link to more first pictures.

I bought some shelves from Ikea the other week (or month, or however long ago) meaning to put them up in the bathroom. Since I finally got the shelves finished in Taco’s room – and all her tiny little clothes sorted into tiny little baskets! – I figured it was high time to actually work […]

My friend Kori and I had a really fun Sunday this last weekend at Larriland Farm’s pick-your-own blueberry patch and tart cherry orchard. I was afraid we’d be caught by afternoon thunderstorms, but the weather was absolutely perfect: overcast, with a slight breeze, and the temperature probably hovered in the low 80’s. No sunstroke this […]

The hundreds of fires up and down California continue to rage, some just 40 minutes from my home. The Big Picture has posted a collection of 17 truly amazing photos of the fires and the people involved in fighting them.

Someone asked me the other day if, now that I’ve been off work for a month, I was bored. Well… no, actually, much as I expected to be. I’ve been doing lots of projects, and taking lots of naps, and reading lots of cheesy sci-fi books. In fact I kind of stocked up on projects […]

3 weeks and 2 days to go… I never actually believed it would get this big… In the words of Mike Meyers, it’s got its own weather system!