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Phew! It’s been crazy busy the past couple of weeks. I can’t believe I haven’t had time to come up for (blog) air since before Halloween.
First of all, I’m happy to announce that after a lot of extra work on the weekends and evenings to get things wrapped up, AG’s new custom photo […]

Between work and Claire, life has been too busy to blog lately. In the office, it’s crunch time again, which means weird hours and sometimes some weekend heroics; at home, we’ve had some rough going with the whole getting-Claire-to-sleep thing.
So we’re giving up on the “let the baby figure out when to be asleep […]

Monday was 28 days, tonight is 30 days; according to the calendar, that makes Claire a full calendar month old. My inner optimist tells me that every day where the three of us are all still here together is a victory, but my inner everyone else persistently beats the crud out of that optimist […]

Huzzah! Our little munchkin is so eager for milk that she doesn’t care where she gets it. She’ll even accept a bottle from her dad! Yep, our first experiment with me feeding Claire from a bottle went smashingly, my little angel gulping away happily in my arms, with nary a complaint–except a […]

Timeless Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
I threw out a couple of numbers in the original announcement that seemed somewhat off, and a few curious folks wanted to know what the scoop was. So, finally, I’m stealing a few minutes to explain the mysterious, divergent numbers.
Thirty-two hours is the […]

We had been encouraged, by our doula as well as by the hospital, to prepare some mix CDs for our birth adventure–for the drive to the hospital, for the hour or so after the baby had been delivered, and for the drive home. Finally, a parenting task that I knew was right up my […]

I couldn’t leave well enough alone. Besides making a great photo subject and an excellent supply of desktop backgrounds, it turns out that Claire secretly yearns to be a Livejournal userpic diva:

Yes, there is a full-size version of that last one, in case you feel like reading the entire caption.

Mood:dorky

Snuggle Buddies Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
…is pretty great. It’s safe to say that I’m hopelessly head-over-heels nuts about my daughter.
There are lots of great photos from the past couple of days as we’ve adjusted to life with Claire (and Claire has adjusted to life with us), but […]

I Are Curiosity! Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
We’re home!
The cats are astoundingly curious, not even interested in their favorite toys. Valentine in particular is hypnotically fascinated by the wriggling little pink thing that keeps making soft kitten noises. Julia is suddenly developing a whole new vocabulary of […]

Where the River Meets the Sea Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
Since I can’t hit LiveJournal from inside the hospital’s China-style firewall, cross-posting from Flickr will have to suffice. Here’s a shot of Claire on Tuesday morning, just twelve hours old and starting to figure out who this Mom […]