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Wow, how time flies! In 7 days Ace will be one year old! Can you believe it? I sure can’t!
I plan on writing a post to publish on his birthday that recaps his first year of life. Keep your eyes peeled for that one…
In the meantime we Momma [...]

Ace has loved to stand up since he was about 2 months old. He would rather be standing in my lap than sitting. His legs have always been very very strong!
At a young age he started standing while holding onto furniture. Shortly after that he began to walk around the furniture while holding [...]

Looking Forward Back when I was a just a little guy, I remember looking forward to playing outside, going swimming, ice cream, and getting up in the morning to start a whole brand new day!
As I got a bit older and started school, I remember looking forward to going to school, recess, show-and-tell, and playing [...]

<– Newborn                                    10 Months –>

Just a little over 10 months ago Ace could barely do anything other than breathe, eat, cry, and poop. [...]

Ace is a gibber-jabbin fool!  All day everyday is filled with a random combination of the baby gibberish language consisting of some of the basic language sounds. “Da Ma Ba Ri Ta Sh Fu Do Bo Na Ge Zz Ay Ss”
Sometimes he says things that make sense.  Is it a coincidence?  Or is he smarter [...]

Man, things have been unusually boring around here.  No excitement.  No drama.  It’s nice!  Just Momma, Ace, and me living our sheltered little lives.
I guess that is a good thing.  It’s better than being bombarded with bad luck.
Well, there is one exciting thing in the child development forefront…Ace has started to stand on [...]

We just got our first snow last night in central Ohio. I woke up this morning to a wonderful snow covered landscape. It was so peaceful, yet exciting at the same time.

Remember when we were kids? I remember waking up seeing the snow and before I was even out of [...]

I was going through my feed reader today and came across a very well written post written by Adam Purcell of WheresTheInstructions.com titled “For The Next Generation,” and it got me thinking about a few things…
Adam’s sums up his post using this one sentence…
“This is one of the greatest calls of a father, to realise [...]

Ace has found yet one more way to make noise. I guess talking and screaming is not enough noise to satisfy his quota of decibels per day.
Recently he has been enjoying playing Pat-A-Cake. However, he will not clap his hands. He would much rather beat his hands on his high chair, the table, [...]

My Dad has never been one to be interested in babies.  I don’t know how he acted when my brother and I were little, but I never remember him purposely holding a baby.
I was the exact same way.  Ace was the first baby that I had ever held that was younger than 6-7 months.  Babies [...]