My Dearest Boy:
I can’t believe you are almost fifteen months old!  Despite the cliche, let me say that it seems like just yesterday I watched you enter this world, brand new.  Delivered to us helpless and fragile, drawing your first breath.  You weren’t scared though.  You were so full of courage that day, my little warrior.  Our eyes met, you saw into my soul and etched a permanent smile onto my heart that makes my every breath a laugh.
Let’s see, what has happened your first year?  Quite a lot actually, …

Check out the peace sign with the other hand!
I’ve been struggling with the software recently, and haven’t had the time to really get in there and fix it till today!
I think, however, I’ve finally settled on the format I wanted for the Pictures page, complete with pics from Holden’s first B-day (better late than never, eh?)
I’ll be streamling and organizing over the course of the week, and will definitely be updating at least the photos much, much more often.  Right now the challenge is figuring out how to keep …

There are few things like returning home.  I am fortunate in that whenever I go to Hawaii, I am going                         home whether I am on my way there, or on the way back to Colorado.  It seems that I am of two                                   worlds.
On the one hand, I have lived on the Mainland for most of my life, only returning to Hawaii …

OK, so I about had a heart attack the first time the Bug stood up last week.   Granted, he’s being supported by a table or something, but still.   He’s been pulling himself up on things, but up until last week, he pretty much stayed on his knees like a little monk praying.  I thought to myself: “Yeah, he’s really getting good at this…he’ll be standing in no time…”  But deep down inside, I kinda thought he’d take a while to get fully upright.  Like maybe sixteen to seventeen …

Yup, he’s finally reached that stage where he doesn’t want to go down for naps.  Hopefully just a phase, but this weekend, Holden just wouldn’t go down for a nap!  I’d put him in his crib (had to lower it to the bottom-most setting too!) and he’d immediately flip over and start wailing.
I let him raise his racket for a bit, knowing that he’d fall asleep eventually (especially since he was asleep before I put him in his crib)!  But eventually his wailing reached the frantic hoarse panic-mode that all …