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Jumping Back In

Posted on July 20, 2010
My 6-week check-up was last Thursday and I am now cleared to swim, take baths, exercise, and have sex. This is good since I was already doing all of the above (except the exercise- unless shoe shopping and house cleaning counts). I am also back to the land of mindless, effortless Mirena birth control, which is good, since we kind of suck at taking care of that on our own...

Birthday Wrap-Up

Posted on July 18, 2010
One more post to wrap up the birthday weekend. Yesterday morning was Landon's party at a brightly colored warehouse full of bounce houses, aka Toddler Heaven.a small corner of the inflatable universeWe picked this particular place because it's near our house (and near all of his friends' houses), relatively new, very clean, and geared toward the younger crowd...

For the baby book (written yesterday)

Posted on July 16, 2010
Dear Landon,Today you are three years old. You've been looking forward to this day since sometime in February when you learned it was my birthday and wanted to know about yours. Since then you have told at least 100 strangers that "my birthday is in July!" and we have discussed the merits of various birthday cakes for months...

A 3rd Birthday in Pictures

Posted on July 16, 2010
Today was Landon's birthday. Or, as he would tell you, "My Birthday is TODAY!!!!!!" He was so excited he actually had a bit of a meltdown this morning, but he pulled himself together and enjoyed a nearly perfect day.It started out with some playtime with babyclaire around 9 a...

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Clairebear

Posted on July 13, 2010
So, I have this baby:I feel a little bad for not writing about her more, but the thing is, newborns don't do a whole lot. When Landon was a baby his every arm movement was recorded, but now we see this three-year-old running about stringing his own sentences together and the sleeping 20 hours a day doesn't seem quite as newsworthy...

Like Being Back in College, but not

Posted on July 12, 2010
Three of my best friends from law school flew in to visit me from Chicago, D.C., and New York City. After their 48 hours here I think I had them almost convinced they should move down to Austin immediately. They flew in Friday from their respective cities and we headed out for Tex Mex and margaritas (and Mexican martinis) at a favorite restaurant of mine with a balcony overlooking 6th Street...

The Silver Bullet

Posted on July 09, 2010
The Lag Liv family got a new member today- a car. A shiny little silver car that is sitting in my driveway and belongs to me. (Well, me and the credit union who financed the loan, but I'm the one who gets to drive it.) I'm a little shocked, it all happened so fast, and I'm still a little mad that it had to happen at all, but I'm also very excited because I've never had a car this new and I drove my old one for 8 years...

3 years of 4ths

Posted on July 07, 2010
We've gone to the 4th of July party at our local country club for the past 3 years. We're not members, but the realtor who helped us find and purchase our house hosts a VIP tent each year. As former (and potential future) clients, we get fajitas, beer, and a fantastic spot on the 18th green to watch the fireworks...

The 4th

Posted on July 04, 2010
I think the 4th of July is my favorite holiday. I decided this in church this morning while listening to the full orchestra play America the Beautiful. It has all the best things about holidays- the meaning, the food, the family-focused gatherings, and none of the things that can mess one up like presents, commercialization, and stress and expectations...

Birthdays Plans and Traditions

Posted on July 02, 2010
I think one of the most fun things about having kids, besides moments like yesterday morning when I walked out of my closet in a new, very colorful dress and Landon looked up from the spot on the floor where he was carefully arranging brightly colored necklaces that I picked up for $1 at Target into circles and calling them birthday cakes while singing "Happy to You" over and over, and said, "oh, mama, you're so pretty!" That's fun, but on a larger scale, I think my favorite thing is the creation of family traditions and celebrating occasions big and small...

Miscellany

Posted on June 30, 2010
My computer tells me it's Tuesday. I'm not sure how that happened- the days both fly and creep by, usually at the same time, as everything continues to go so well in our world. I've spent most of the past two days reviewing the 84-proof gallery from our photographer...

Sneak Peek

Posted on June 27, 2010
Two weeks ago, when Claire was 7 days old, we had a photographer come out to the house to take newborn portraits. We didn't do this with Landon due to a combination of lack of funds, his time in the NICU, and the fact that we had never heard of newborn portraits...

Siblings

Posted on June 24, 2010
Landon helped me set up his old play gym for babyclaire* yesterday.(*Whenever someone asks him for the name of his little sister he always says "baby claire" like it's one word. It cracks us up.)He was super excited for babyclaire to have a new toy and was quite disappointed when she wouldn't wake up to play with it last night...

Keeping Busy, kind of

Posted on June 23, 2010
Summer is officially here- there's not a high less than 94 in our 10-day forecast, and we're all keeping busy. (swim cap = serious swimmer)Landon began swim lessons on Monday. We've been taking him to the pool on the weekends and were glad to find that he loves the water...

A Father's Day Moment Caught on Film

Posted on June 20, 2010
The card I gave JP for Father's Day begins with, "I love the life we've built together." Not the most traditional Father's Day quote, but one that couldn't be more true. There is nothing I love more, or that I am more proud of.Happy Father's Day to a truly wonderful father, husband, partner, and best friend.

2 Week Check-Ups

Posted on June 18, 2010
Gold stars all around!Today began with Claire's 2-week check-up. It was our first solo trip out together and my first time to drive since the day before she was born, but I feel great and the pediatrician's office is only 1.5 miles from our house, so we did just fine...

Billing Time

Posted on June 17, 2010
One of the best things about being on maternity leave, besides the baby, is that I don't have to enter time anymore. But if I did, today would look something like this.1.0 hrs: Make and eat breakfast (cereal); make and eat lunch (turkey sandwich). 8...

Needed: A Short-Term Home Based Hobby

Posted on June 15, 2010
Claire and I have been wasting the days away. I'm 12 days into my maternity leave, feeling great, and am perilously close to being bored out of my mind. Newborns sleep a lot. Then they eat, poop, spend about 30 minutes making absurdly adorable faces and movements and then they sleep again...

Claire's Birth Story

Posted on June 12, 2010
A Recap of June 4, 2010(as pulled from my relatively fuzzy memories of that day)6:00 am: Wake up after a restless night's sleep. I'm not really nervous about the surgery, just suffering from a combination of excitement about the big day, anxiety about getting up on time to make it to the hospital, and the frequent urgings of my bladder...

Day 7

Posted on June 10, 2010
I'm sorry for the lack of updates. I've been very busy. You see my mom and I watched all 12 DVD'd episodes of Glee in 2 days and then immediately watched the finale. It was awesome. I now understand why all my co-workers have been bugging me to watch that show...

Home

Posted on June 07, 2010
This is Claire and me on our way out of our hospital room this morning. We got to leave together.This is Claire with a tummy full of milk in her papasan chair on our back deck. She enjoyed the fresh air while my mom and I drank diet coke and chatted about serious and important topics...

In the meantime

Posted on June 06, 2010
I have so much I want to write about - Claire's birth story (just perfect), my recovery (going very well), how extraordinarily different it has been to have Claire in the room with us instead of the NICU, the fact that I'm nursing and don't think I hate it but am pretty sure I don't like it either (actually, not sure if I'll write about that one), and how utterly delightful it is to have a newborn back in our lives...

My Children

Posted on June 05, 2010
We are all doing so very well. Claire is a little ball of snuggliness. I can't get over having her in the room with us. At this point in Landon's life I think we'd only seen him twice and he was fighting so hard to breathe that he still had never cried or opened his eyes...

There's Someone I'd Like You To Meet

Posted on June 04, 2010
Claire Annalise9:22 a.m.8 lb. 10 oz.21 inches of pink pudgy perfectionEverything went great, more later I promise.

It's Actually On My Outlook Calendar

Posted on June 03, 2010
Tomorrow morning, at or around 9 a.m., I will meet my baby girl. Our bags are packed, my mom is here. The co-sleeper is set up in our bedroom and the new changing table is stocked with teeny tiny diapers. The nursery cheerfully awaits its baby with a closet filled with clothes organized by size, color, and type...

The Rest of the Weekend

Posted on May 24, 2010
Cliff's Notes version: JP is graduated. The in-laws are back in Maryland. I am still pregnant.On Saturday I spent the morning lying around the house recovering from the physical exertion of the night before. My in-laws came over for an hour or so to see Landon (if I hadn't mentioned it before, they stayed at a hotel for this trip, thank god, especially since JP's 91-year-old grandmother ended up in a wheelchair a few days before they left and wouldn't have been able to go up our stairs anyway) while JP and I ran out to get some lunch...

Graduated!

Posted on May 22, 2010
Yay Daddy!JP graduated! I'd like to be able to say that I was overwhelmed with pride and happiness as he walked across the stage, but in truth I was exhausted and distracted after 3 hours of being 37-weeks pregnant and keeping a nearly 3-year-old entertained, in his seat, and, by the bitter end (45 mins after his bedtime), just anything that was not yelling...

Transitions and Maternity Leave

Posted on May 19, 2010
16 days to go. I am an official graduate of Texas Perinatal Group pre-term labor prevention program. I wanted a certificate I could frame in my office, but all my nurse practitioner could get me was a signed picture of the Marine One Helicopter outside the White House...

Killing Time (19 days to go)

Posted on May 16, 2010
As we go about our daily routine - a routine that I love, but is nonetheless much of the same - I frequently fight a nagging feeling that we aren't taking proper advantage of the city we live in. Austin offers so much- parks, museums, hiking trails, green belts, lakes, etc...

Gold Star

Posted on May 13, 2010
We are officially past the point in my pregnancy when I (very surprisingly!) went into labor with Landon. He was about 2 days old and looked like this:It is so hard to believe that that little guy is now this big little guy:We are all very excited to reach this milestone...

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