Newborn Checkup on Flickr.
Owen and Hale have become the brothers that I wanted them to be — laughing together, helping each other and genuinely loving each other. It took time for Owen to warm up to Hale, after being an only child for so long. Owen was a reluctant big brother, but you wouldn’t know it from these photos.
Family Walk on Flickr.
Still an all-time favorite photo of me and Hale. What a good boy to give me flowers!
This weekend and the photography that accompanied the Christmas weekend led to Hale’s newest word, “cheese”, when a photograph is taken. It sounds like this, in a soft tone and high pitch, “chee!”.
So we now have five words and here they are, in their order of arrival: Mama, Dadda, hi, yuck, and cheese.
Sweet Hale will be seven months Saturday. Last night we gave back several borrowed outgrown baby items. This is going too quickly.
Guess who can sit up by himself!
Owen is on line 16 of 50 - “I will be nice to all people.” He spit on Hale when I left them alone this morning. Since Hale’s birth, he’s hit Hale, bit Hale and now spit on him. For a few moments I considered taking Owen to the woods and leaving him for our Grapevine coyotes. Still in the realm of possibility.
To celebrate Hale’s six month, beautiful weather and play at a park.
Wearing my purple, gold and green beads from Mardi Gras Gay Bingo and red and yellow beads from dear Dorie. Hale loves them.
My name is Kathleen Thompson and I'm a writer, community organizer and political junkie.
Wife to Jeremy Johnson, mother of Owen and Hale, we live in the wonderful city of Grapevine. Contact me at kathleen@ktnote.com or socially: @ktnote, linkedin, flickr and facebook
