Somebody was just a little bit excited about starting “school” (mother’s day out) today. He wanted to put his shoes on last night in preparation for the new school year. It isn’t the first year he’s gone to MDO, but this year we’re at a different school, and I think I was nervous about how […]

Jude would like to invite you to come see his room. He now asks everybody who comes over to come upstairs. “Hey guys! Come upstairs! Come upstairs with ME!” “Hey Woody!  Woody, you ok? You ok, Woody? Okay.”  (Simon thinks we must apparently ask Jude if he’s ok a lot since this is the majority […]

On Saturday we decided to take the new car for a drive down to southwest Oklahoma. When Simon was a kid, his folks took him and his sister down to Mt. Scott, near Lawton, frequently. He has good memories and wanted to take Jude. For the most part, Oklahoma is pretty flat, so it’s exotic […]

I swore I’d never be that person showing off photos of their babies nonstop, but I so totally am. I think he’s the coolest thing since sliced bread and I just love looking at him. Back at Thanksgiving, our photographer friend Reseth Oberg shot a precious photo of Jude and then in May for my […]