Sweet Extract

and I haven’t posted anything in a dog’s age. Sorry.

We’ve gone through a VERY rough couple of weeks. The boys have been both sick and simply not their usual selves. Vaccines, teething and some sort of mild viral infection have made them cranky and dramatic beyond any reason. It’s been a miserable time for all of us.
Especially for Nicholas. It’s been hardest on him [...]

Nicholas mostly likes to hang around on weekends.

The playpen in the living room is becoming less and less relevant as the boys get older and their wanderlust grows. They’re still amenable to spending a little bit of time in there but the activities therein are becoming more and more unruly. One of those activities, aside from the de rigueur chuck-EVERYTHING-out-of-the-playpen game, (Hey [...]

Well, I’m a bit late in posting ’cause he’s been doing this for a while but here it is! Nicholas is hot on his brother’s heels.
God help me.

As most of you know, the boys have a playpen in the living room. It IS admittedly a lot like a kiddy jail, but it affords me the luxury of doing stuff like brushing my teeth (sometimes) and finding shoes that match (occasionally).
The boys are not entirely resentful of this “caging” – heck, all their [...]

For anyone who’s wondering if there’s a family resemblance, that’s Nicholas at one year old on the left and me at the same age on the right.
Yeah, I think I can see a little something.
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This post was originally supposed to go up October 11th. Sorry! Been a bit busy.
Nicholas clapped for the first time today. See?