Revelry Reverie

Yesterday we took a trip to the Scrap Exchange in Durham, and got Henry 4 pounds of Legos. Some selected photos:

Last night at 9:06pm marked Grant’s first full week on the outside!

In reviewing my stats here on my blog, I noticed something interesting. For 2015, my top posts (after Granite Boulder, which is about paint) were about Automattic: In 2016, my top posts (after Granite Boulder) are about pregnancy and the baby: I’ll be interested to see what the rest of the year brings.

The business of feeding babies is mysterious, brutish, and inexorably unforgiving. It is life and self-worth all tied up together. It’s the worst when it’s hard (as it so often is) and deeply satisfying when it works (as it sometimes does). Breastfeeding is hell.  Formula exists both because feeding a baby from your own body…

Henry and Bob are looking up resale Legos on Craigslist, and I got curious as to how many pounds of Lego bricks are out there in the world. Here’s what I found: Approximately 19 billion Lego elements are produced per year. 2.16 million are molded every hour, 36,000 every minute. You can read the full…

Our first day home, on Saturday, we took a walk to one of the playgrounds in the neighborhood so the big kids could play. I wore Grant, as I’m used to him on me, and he was very happy about it. He snuggled in. I look tired because I am tired. His head looks completely…

Yesterday turned into an adventure. I had an appointment with the midwives at 9am, and had been contracting since 1:30am – albeit not very intense or very close together. At that appointment I was 3cm dilated and still 50% effaced. Grant was a -2, meaning, he wasn’t fully engaged yet – not super unusual for…