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Right now it's funny to think our toddler barely spoke at all his first year, then only very sparingly after that. He's an absolute...

Son #2 isn't quite six months old yet and he's really a ton of fun right now. A couple years ago I remember our neighbor asking when #1...

Covid has dominated our lives and conversations for the last 14 months. Most of it involved painfully slow progress on the cases then...

We were a bit surprised at #2's latest well-check. It turns out he'd fallen from 50+ percentile weight/length at three months all the way...

Covid has brought a lot of changes to our day-to-day life both at home and out in public. Much of this we've just gotten used to, like...

We have a toddler son and, to the shock of nobody, he's thoroughly obsessed with trucks. Construction equipment, emergency vehicles,...

Since my wife went back to work two weeks ago, the time has come where I'm responsible for two kids during the week. I was both dreading...

Well, time is flying by and we're nearing the end of my wife's maternity leave. For both our first and second child she took 12 weeks off...

While in some ways I'm not the most typical Minnesotan, you can definitely still see it in how I talk. The following video is a little...

Our toddler is smack dab in the middle of being two and we expect emotions to run high. Tantrums and other outbursts were already...

As part of the Christmas gift for my mom this year, I had the idea to put together a shortlist of approachable history books. She likes...

The due date was December 17th. Right now only one hospital visitor is allowed per mother giving birth, and even in normal times children...

Most vacations we take aren't very relaxing. That's as true now as it was before we had kids, though where we go and what we do has...

My wife has a mostly typical work schedule and is usually only busy during the week. Like most people, the weekends are for everything...

We won't be traveling to Minnesota for either Thanksgiving or Christmas this year, with the baby due in December. So we decided to go in...

The Presidential election is tomorrow. It'd certainly be best if we know the winner sooner rather than later. Today I think it's a good...

It turns out lots of behaviors you learn and know in life are largely regional, and this becomes profoundly clear when leaving your...

It's often said the time to move a toddler out of their crib is when they start climbing out. That never happened for us. Instead we...

On (Fri) Sept 18th of this year, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg passed away at 87. She was a political and cultural icon well...

This post definitely goes with the idea this blog is sometimes a sorta virtual scrapbook. Ideally, whether or not I write for that long,...