I started this blog for a couple of reasons. Knowing how much both my parents and Mark's mom miss seeing the baby, I thought that they (and everyone else that loves Jake and wants to see what mischief he's gotten into this week) would like to have a place that they could go to get regular(-ish) updates. Also, since I've been watching the new baby girl of a couple I know at nights, it's occurred to me just HOW fast time is going. I've meant to write everything down over the last five months so that my post-partum fogged mind didn't forget all the little moments-the good, the bad, and those involving baby bodily fluids. This totally hasn't happened as it's taken me all five months to feel like I've gotten SOME semblance of a routine back, though I'm not anywhere even close to being as productive as I'd like. So writing it down here will be a way to make sure I catch all the new little things my baby boy does every day.
I'd like to say this will be updated every day, but anyone who knows me well knows better:) The half dozen journals I've started and then abandoned and the livejournal that seems to get updated only when the planets converge and the stars align just right prove otherwise. Plus, we don't have internet at the moment and having to take a feisty baby to the coffee shop kind of hinders the writing process. But I'll make a huge effort to update as regularly as possible and I'll make sure to include lots of adorable smoooshy-ness in the form of pictures to tide everyone over.
And for your first dose of cuteness...
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