Milestones

Sunday: reaching for the pictures in his favorite book, "I Kissed the Baby." He was laughing out loud at the pages "I tickled the baby. Did you tickle the baby? / Yes! I tickled the baby, the wriggly, giggly thing" previously. Very cute.


Monday: learned a new vocabulary--as in, fun screeching sounds. Extremely cute and sometimes extremely loud. Sometimes this is a happy voice, sometimes not...

Hm, I was going to say the above picture is another milestone, but it's not the first work event of mine that Rowan's attended! That would be the baseball game back in September. We do have fun at my job. Anyway, last week we had a launch party for the premiere of our new series, Reel NW. The film Wheedle's Groove kicked us off, and the musicians from the film are still playing today--including at our party. What a great time! Rowan's ears were protected thanks to borrowed headphones (we'll be buying our own for sure) and he enjoyed dancing with papa.


Rowan does seem to like to sleep 12 hours in a row--he's still snoozing, though I had to bring him to bed and shut off all lights last night for him to finally fall asleep. He's a good baby, keeping us busy!

First class

Rowan playing at Family Works, Weds. 9/1/10

Rowan's a first-class baby... this was his first official class, thanks to Family Works. Thanks, community! We had a great time singing and practicing tummy time. Usually tummy time's not a popular activity, but Rowan seems to like busy rooms.

Rowan!

When we created this blog, Seth said it'd be useful for more than just the wedding. We skipped over house-buying but we can catch up on that--the house ages in a much less interesting way than the baby! I hope we'll find time to update the header and template to reflect the new focus of the blog...

Rowan Calder, born July 25, 2010, at 5:22 p.m., 7 pounds, 7 ounces and 18 inches.

Today, Rowan is one month and two days old, and he's upwards of 11 pounds and maybe around 23 inches. I'm honestly not sure of his current weight/length, but it's mainly chin!

And he's awake again--see you later!

Long-overdue update!

Seth and I have been lax in celebrating our monthly anniversaries, in case you were wondering. However, our bank has been celebrating by depositing interest payments in our new joint savings account on the 16th of the month. Thanks, giant corporation!

If you haven't visited our Flickr pool to check out the pictures, you're missing out. My older brother, Gavin, just uploaded a bunch of new ones today. Here's my favorite from him so far:



I think I like it because I don't remember the exact moment, but I know it was good. He also got lots of great shots of our nephews, who are almost painfully cute.

I'll be back soon with more favorite pictures and one big question... Okay, it's not that big, but it's been on my mind for weeks.

coffee

Daphne is still asleep right now, but at 6:30 my body decided it was time to get up. If I could find the camera (I'm sure it's just hidden under some wedding-related rubble) I would take a picture of my cup of coffee. I guess these are my last moments of alone time before things get crazy.

If I am sitting here calmly sipping coffee it can only be because of Daphne. Not that I have a lot of experience with such things, but putting together a wedding like ours seems to require a magical combination of planning and flexibility. Like everything else she puts her mind to she has done an amazing job with the preparations.

I think for many couples planning a wedding is a real test. Sure, there have been some stressful moments, but experiencing this together has made me even more confident (as if I had any doubt) that Daphne is the woman I want to spend my life with.

I love you, Daphne, and I'm thrilled that you are becoming my wife today.

who doesn't love a pool?

Ok, so it's not that kind of pool. Looks like fun though, right?

I started a pool on flickr.com so everyone can post their images from the wedding in one place. You have to be a member to post images there, but joining is pretty easy and it's free. If that's too much trouble you can always post a link to where your pictures are hosted in the comments here.

Sure, we'll have a great pro photographer there but we'd love to see the day from your perspective too.

Here's the link. If you have pictures of the preparations, the ceremony, or anything else wedding-related we'd love for you to share.

More cute nephew pictures are 100% guaranteed.

wedding planning can really take a lot out of a cat

Today we got our license. The office is pretty stark, but there are flowery pens.