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A Thought…

When I am If I were to be King of the Universe, every new mother would receive eighteen months of paid maternity leave at their full salary with no cap (right now, I think it's something like $1600/month as the maximum you can collect no matter what you make as a salary).   There would […]

Posted 04 June 2007 § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (2) °

Four Steps To A Happy Baby

Mike T. sent this along and I'm reprinting it with his permission (though technically, I only asked if I could reprint the list – I hope he doesn't mind me reprinting the whole e-mail.) Enjoy.  I know that you probably won't believe me, but the first month is actually really easy compared to months 2-18.  […]

Posted 28 May 2007 § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (4) °

The Happiest Baby on the Block – "The Fourth Trimester" Theory

Three posts in a row?  Wow – I must be catching up on my e-mail backlog a bit!  (Don't worry, the baby is right here, sleeping on my chest helping me type the entries. )  A friend passed this along.  I know we're going to get all kinds of tips and advice in the coming […]

Posted 24 May 2007 § Main Page ‡ Comments (6) °

An Italian Lesson

The grandparents bumped into somebody in the elevator at the hospital this weekend who mentioned that Pace also means “peace and harmony” in Italian (if you follow this link, click on the volume icon to hear it pronounced) as well as Middle English.  We didn't know that but that's cool too.  As with the nickname […]

Posted 24 May 2007 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Oscar Comes Home (And Apparently Likes It)

(Man, it's going to be hard to get away from calling him Oscar! Also, thanks to everyone for the e-mails, blog comments, Facebook posts and even the occasional phone call!  It's going to take me a long time to catch up on the backlog (and I might never) but we do appreciate all of the […]

Posted 22 May 2007 § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (6) °

Parenting Analogies?

Just whipped home to pick up a few things, fill up the car, charge the cell phone (we have Shea's mom's since that's one piece of techno-geekery that hasn't engulfed me yet) and so on.  It's only been a couple days but I've been trying to come up with an analogy for what parenthood is […]

Posted 21 May 2007 § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (3) °

Pace's Nickname

My dad was testing out the baby's name at lunch today and inadvertently came up with a nice nickname for the new guy (although it's still tough for all of us to stop calling him “Oscar”.)  I'd being using “Pacer” as the somewhat obvious derivative “Pacey” doesn't do it for me.  But dad was playing […]

Posted 20 May 2007 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Oscar Is Here…

…and his name is “Pace Owen Hammond” (Pace being the Middle English word for “Peace” and Owen just being a name we liked.)  Pace was born on May 19, 2007 at 12:33am at the Regina General Hospital.  He weighed 6lbs 6ozs and was 18 1/2 inches long.  The Apgar tests of his reflexes, awareness, etc. […]

Posted 20 May 2007 § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (21) °

Mr. Mom

Posted 16 May 2007 § Main Page § Photo § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Happy Mother's Day – To Shea, From Jason (and Oscar too!)

Posted 13 May 2007 § Main Page § Photo § Shea ‡ Comments (6) °