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I forgot to post his one year stats from the other day. He’s 23 lbs 10 oz, and 30.5 inches long.

My new author website is officially UP!

There’s nothing too exciting there yet, but I knew I needed a website separate from this one. The Blarg is my personal site with lots of opinions that the average person doesn’t want to hear about, so this gives me an opportunity to have discussions solely about my book and writing in general. Hopefully I’ll have a lot to post there and keep updated, so make sure you visit and add the RSS feeds to your reader!

Luke turned one this weekend, and we had a fun party! I still want to make some “daddy” comments, but I’ll save that for its own post. For this one I’ll just post the video and some pictures.

Video shows some of the fun moments. He didn’t attack the cake like I’d hoped, so I helped him.

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You can see those top teeth are poking through!

Booger wouldn’t smile. He was still in shock about what to do with that cake thing.

Cutie pie.

Luke is carrying on the tradition of my Grandfather. Bow on the head!

That’s one happy Grandma.

Thank you to my brother for all the pictures!

I’m still here! Luke is one years old and all grows up. He said he’s moving out next week. Actually, I’m just stalling so I can have time to take pictures off the camera and edit some video.

I didn’t make it to the next round of the Amazon competition. The first “judging” was based on a 300 word pitch….and that’s where I got cut! Nobody even read my book, so in that sense it’s less defeating. All it took was someone to say “That doesn’t sound like my kind of book,” and I was done. Now I can look forward to all your honest reviews.

Waiting for some final edits to get finished, then ordering a new proof. I’m estimating another two weeks…but it’s coming this time, I promise!

Baby birthday will come sooner.

In a couple weeks our little booger will be a year old! It’s gone by both fast and slow at the same time. When he’s officially a year old I’ll post some “official” father comments, but for now, just pictures. The good ones are by Andrew.

We love holding our own bottle. We’re slowly transitioning to more solid stuff, but I don’t think he’s in any hurry. We’ve got two teeth on the top and bottom in the front, and a molar in the back is popping through. I think he might get a whole mouth full at once!

Coasters are yummy! He likes to hold them in his mouth and crawl around like he’s the dog.

We played in the fridge the other day. He knew what to do with the Powerade bottle.

Today we went to the cemetery with my parents. These are some of my Great Grandparents, so they would be Luke’s Great Great Grandparents. They’ve been buried there my whole life, not even five miles away, and I’d never seen their gravestone. I’ve got some photos of them, and I think it would be really cool to put together some kind of family history book with pictures, birth certificates, gravestones, etc. I have six ancestors buried at another local cemetery, which I think is so cool. Even though I really only knew three of them, between looking at pictures and hearing about them, it’s just a lot of fun to know my “history.”