2 years/6 months

Two years ago we walked into our wedding together. Life together since then has been busy and beautiful. And I love it, and I love him. (To my husband, high five for making it longer than most celebrity marriages!)

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Also, for the last 24 weeks (or 6 months, but not officially yet), I've breastfed  my son. So many hours, so many of them frustrating at first. But I wanted to make it 6 weeks-- I'd been told it gets easier then, so that was my first goal. It didn't actually get easier until 9 weeks. But I stuck with it with 6 months as my next goal. We've nursed in planes, trains, and cars. In church and at work. It's been a lot of work. And still now that Xavier has teeth number 3, 4, and 5 coming in, there are hard moments again. But we made it to 6 months! *Cue patting myself on my back.*

Nursing at 12 days, when nursing took FOR-EV-ER.

Wolf... Er, Husky baby and Auntie Piper

And then I realized...

While white is classic and you can bleach it, perhaps we should have registered for something with more color after all. Oh well...

GQ

"I'm ready to be on the cover of GQ in about 25 years. See how cool I am in a baby fedora?"

Why Pat the Bunny when you can eat the bunny?

And now for something completely different...

This article was in Vanity Fair earlier this week, which lead me to think it's about time to start my annual viewing of our West Wing DVDs. On that...

Possibly my favorite speech from The West Wing:

And also, while we're sharing West Wing clips, I sent this one to my dad, the father of 5 daughters, thinking he could relate to the part where President Bartlett explains the term "Abu el Benat." 

And I think at some point around X's birth, someone said "babies come with hats..." so there's this too...

I sleep with one eye open...

Literally, in Baby X's case. (Does anyone else have a kid who does that?)