Category Archives: Pace

iPotty

This is brilliant…although if Sasha’s anything like her big brother, she’d find a way to pee on the iPad instead of the pot.  (A co-worker still brings up the story we told him when Pace was a toddler of Pace standing in our living room and peeing on our VCR!) (via /r/Daddit)

Saturday Snap – “May the Fourth Be With You” Nerd Family Edition

A few different shots in honour of perhaps the nerdiest day of the year: I’m not a programmer but via a handy online interface, was able to create my own watchface for my “21st Century Calculator Watch“.  There’s also a web site with lots of other cool watchfaces others with greater skills than my own […]

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 […]

26 Reasons Kids Are Just Tiny Drunk Adults

A funny list from BuzzFeed.

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

Our New Family

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 […]

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”!)