Category Archives: Baby

Happy Two Week Birthday, Sasha!

You don’t look a day over a week and a half! 😉

10 Things I Love About Sasha

Sitting here with the new baby curled up, sleeping on my chest in the middle of the night (as she’s done many times in the past two weeks), I thought I should make a list… TEN THINGS I LOVE ABOUT OUR NEW BABY That amazing new baby smell! How her little chest moves in and […]

I’m a Dad – Random Thoughts About Sasha’s First Day (On Her One Week Birthday)

So as much as I’d like to just keep posting pictures of Sasha, eventually I’ve got to get back to blog posts that have “letters” and “words” rather than cute pictures. A good place to start would be with a look back at that first day, inspired partly by many of the notes I scribbled […]

Saturday Snap – Sasha Rayden Week One Photo Montage

Having a pretty good first week so far and it’s only half over!

Brother and Sister

Sasha Rayden Hammond and a Friend

I suspect I’ll be burning up the “Cute” tag on this blog in the days, weeks and months to come! 😉

Princess Kate is here…

…And the non-in utero name of our new baby girl is Sasha Rayden Jay Thompson Hammond (there’s no limit on middle names, is there?). She was born weighing 7lbs, 8 oz. and was 20 inches long. Born at 2:30pm on April 16, 2013, she is currently sleeping peacefully. Checklist… Mom tired but otherwise doing well […]

Saturday Snap – Belly Labels

Stole this idea from Pinterest…

Saturday Snap – I’ll Miss When Shea’s Not Pregnant…

…I asked her to hold my wine and she agreed. 😉 (Can you see that look of longing in her eyes as she glances at my wine? Actually pretty cruel of us to tempt her this way during a birthday supper for my dad earlier this week!)

Friday Fun Link – Share Some Unique/Insightful Ways You’ve Heard A Child Verbalize Something That’s Become Part of Your Own Vocabulary

Pace’s portmanteau word “ness” is one of the most upvoted comments on this Reddit question although all of the answers are great (with that said, I’m glad it wasn’t my kid who liked to say “cockporn” instead of “popcorn”!)