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Category Archives: Baby

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 (22) °

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) °

Facebook Embarrassments

I was talking to a friend who refuses to join Facebook.  They said that part of the reason they didn't want to join was how competitive it seemed: “I have 46 friends.”  “I have 87 friends.”  “I have 99 friends.”  And what's the first line of my Feliciter article about Facebook?  “I have exactly 159 […]

Posted 09 May 2007 § Humour § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (4) °

The Twelve Types of Library School Students

This is a post I started near the end of library school and meant to post during my furious last week of longish, library school-related entries.  But I never got it finished so I thought it would make a good 500th post for this blog instead.  Yep, I’ve been at it just over a year […]

Posted 27 March 2007 § Humour § Library § LibrarySchool § List § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (12) °

First Pre-Natal Class Tonight

The woman who teaches the course, Sally Elliott, gets raves from everybody we talk to so I'm pretty excited.  Plus I'll find out if reading “The Poo Bomb” is sufficient preparation for having a child. 

Posted 22 March 2007 § Humour § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °