Camping trip to Marfa and Big Bend.

In November we took a camping trip to Marfa and Big Bend. Marfa is a quirky old artist colony in the middle of nowhere which carries a mystique for its unexpected eccentricities, and Big Bend national park is the closest thing we’ve got to mountains here in Texas. We actually had planned to go in … Continue reading

New bed!

In November we decided that perhaps it was finally time to convert your crib into a toddler bed. In fact, you were probably ready for this change a year ago. But we’d been resisting losing the last source of containment. Particularly risky given your propensity to stay up later than your mama. But it was … Continue reading

Halloween.

Halloween was a weeklong event for you this year. It kicked off with a visit to my office for the annual Boo:30, where you took up the game of “corn hole,” before venturing upstairs to the roof deck where you encountered the best kid attraction ever: Bryan Jessee’s helicopter. Inside the helicopter was a pigpile … Continue reading