original little hellraisers

…because i caught my mom completely unprepaired for my once a day blow out poops, that’s why.

dylan: you’re well adjusting to our crazy, impatient and massively disorganized world (lives!) in realizing that the very survival of your little self depends on your mother, you’ve begun to coo at her (and other important women in our life).  drag them in with your cuteness and them, blammo!, you’ll get a free meal.  well, [...]

i did it.  i made it through the evening with two kids and no wife to be found.  all in all, except for about 15 minutes of pure fear-of-it-all-unravelling, it went pretty smoothly.
kara left and said, ‘don’t call me.’  and then she called me like 4 times.  i feel [...]

the best = nap time
owen will nap around 3 hours and dylan will usually be asleep 1 to 2 hours during that time also.
the worst = bedtime
even though the routine is similar to nap time with the addition of baths it’s an absolute nightmare!  no one has any patience left at this point.  owen procrastinates getting [...]

…dylan is just about perfect.  i mean, sure, he cries from time to time, but he also lets us take him to the loudest pizza parlor in town where we get comped a pitcher of beer and are told to take as much time as we want while a line forms outside…
not a peep.
if kids [...]

…if you pump dylan’s legs, you can make him fart.  it’s true — it makes him smile (either it’s really funny or he feels *so* much better — or both).  oh, and it’s hilarious.
…if you rub between his eyes he’ll fall asleep.  like taming a shark or something.
…you don’t need *all* those 0-3 month outfits.

dylan: what an incredible month.  you were born in record time, by your nearly bionic mother.  since then, you’ve spent the month sleeping it off.  you don’t cry much or make too much fuss.  you have broken out in an incredible amount of baby acne.
we think it is the testosterone.  we think you’re going to [...]

you are 1 month old already and it’s hard to believe.  you’ve been a great baby.  i keep waiting for you to “wake up” but i think you are an old soul and are already here and totally cool with what you see. 
you’ve been sleeping contently next to us the past month and last night [...]

i remember, when my parents saw how we were raising owen, they said that they felt sorry for the second child (before we even were pregnant with dylan).  not in a mean way, mind you, but in the way that only a parent of multiple children could even state.
i mean, owen has staged photos that [...]