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It’s been really hot here for the last week or so with temperatures in the high 80s and low 90s. For those of you enduring the hot and humid East Coast summer this seems like nothing, and it is relatively, but we have no air conditioning at home. It can be very unpleasant without air [...]

We had a nice warm day and decided that this would be a good opportunity for the boys to practice drinking from cups in a harmless way in the back yard. Check out the video.

Yes, it’s true! Noah decided that he’s going to walk. It was very sudden – one day he didn’t even want to stand on his own, the next day he’s walking. To be honest, I can’t blame him for taking almost two months longer than Jesse to learn how to walk. After all, he has [...]

That’s right, I’m 40 years old now. I guess that should mean something to me. I did ask the Facebooks for ideas on how I could benefit from a mid-life crisis, but no one really came up with anything that made it seem worth the trouble. I decided to let it go and instead of [...]

For the past several weeks, Jesse and Noah have both been standing for a few seconds in place, but recently Jesse has been standing for longer periods of time. He would sort of take a step and then lunge at you, but just yesterday he started taking more steps and is pretty stable. I think [...]

Here we all are in our new house in Seattle. We bought the boys their first pairs of shoes and Jesse thinks they are very tasty. Many thanks to April for the great photo.

We’re almost settled. We moved into our new house in West Seattle last Thursday and we’re mostly unpacked thanks to a huge amount of help from Rachel’s mom Susan and brother Alex. The first thing we did was get the boys’ room set up and tried to get them back into a routine. The move [...]

If you’re only following our blog and not Facebook, you might have missed that Rachel has a new job as the VP and GM of Bible Gateway. She was offered the job about a month ago and started last week. She’ll post more about the job when she can, but for now the main point [...]

PHEW! We made it! Or more accurately, they made it to one year without us killing them. I can’t believe that it’s been a year since they were born. All I can say is that this past years has been the longest three years of my life. Still, what a joy they are. They are [...]

This past weekend we went once again to Green Valley Lake with our friends Ed, Jamie, and their daughter Celia. The trip up there was torture with whiny babies, heavy SoCal traffic, and the main road up the mountain being closed. We took a detour, while beautiful, took longer and didn’t help the whiny baby [...]