Sorry this is so late in coming. We talked with the doctor from the specialist's clinic after the test yesterday and this morning, but literally everything he has said has been contradicted by the attending, so we didn't want to confuse things. Unfortunately, we literally did not see the att...

Lighting menorah Originally uploaded by kicksie. Check out our Charlie Brown Christmas tree (I decided wayyyyy too late in the month that I wanted a tree) and a long exposure of lighting the menorah. We had a pretty low-key holiday this year, which was good. Since we are starting the transition into...

Dear Isaac, The past two months have passed so quickly and are so crammed full of milestones that I didn't even have time to write your five-months-old letter. First off, rolling? Pshaw, you say. That's old hat. You roll like a champ, and not just onto your belly and back. You roll in these ...

At breakfast on Monday, the day after the race, Judah was being silly. He had a little tiny bit of raspberry jam on his finger, and he decided to let Isaac taste it, though he hasn't yet started on solids. We thought, oh, it's so sweet, he is going to love it. Instead, his response was: *dry...

I finally realized I wasn't going to be able to write the labor story in one fell swoop on my blog, so I'm getting it started now so I can come back to it when I have time. So! Here we go. (Beware the squeamish.) Wednesday night (June 18), I watched So You Think You Can Dance, as usual, and a little...

His eyes are, uh, newborn color Originally uploaded by kicksie. It's been a little crazy around here the past few days, so I still haven't finished the labor story or been able to add many new photos or anything, but things are going pretty well. On Friday, Mike and Peggy (Judah's dad and stepmom) g...

A few weeks ago, I read this story about a former blogger for Gawker. She had had a personal blog about her life and relationship and ended up working at Gawker and exposing a lot of her personal life there -- and getting involved with a coworker and some other messiness. Anyway, at the beginning of...

The NYT health section has an interesting story on infertility today -- as well as a very moving multimedia package featuring interviews with women who were faced with various infertility issues and made a variety of different choices about them. (Beware: The audio on the multimedia starts playing i...

First, let's talk about yesterday. Armageddon hellstorm came through just as I was driving to my weekly checkup. As many of you know, I have a pretty bad storm phobia (possibly neither here nor there, but I was in a bad flood when I was 3 and a hurricane when I was 6), and this was by far the worst ...

SHOWER36 Originally uploaded by sunDsign. It's kind of funny. My 31st birthday is in ... well, a few minutes, I guess. I have never been less fixated on my birthday in my life. I love birthdays. I love celebrating my birthday. Is it self-involved? Maybe. But that's OK. So it's funny that this year, ...