I haven’t posted about the house ( photoset on Flickr ) in a while. During our trip to Odessa, the builders put in our tile (kitchen, utility room, bathrooms, and entryway), installed the marble in our bathrooms ( sink , shower walls ), laid our kitchen countertop , and dropped a big pile of dirt[...]
Read About Day 1 Read About Day 2 Read About Day 3 Read About Day 4 Read About Day 5 After an excellent night’s sleep, we awoke early and checked out of the Holiday Inn Express. I should mention that for some reason this room cost 40% more than the room in the Holiday Inn[...]
Read About Day 1 Read About Day 2 Read About Day 3 Read About Day 4 Monday morning (July 19), we checked out of Great Western Inn in Carlsbad at 8:46 a.m. MT (9:46 a.m. CDT), and headed back toward Odessa. This time we took the simpler route, which was just a little longer but[...]
Read About Day 1 Read About Day 2 Read About Day 3 On Sunday (July 18), we headed toward the caves. We’d planned our trip so that this excursion would fall on Sunday, usually one of the lowest-traffic days for most tourist sites. While we love viewing the wonderful national parks of the U.S., both[...]
Read About Day 1 Read About Day 2 The next morning, Saturday (July 17), I checked the car and realized that my left front tire was wearing thin. I should have replaced it days earlier in Killeen, but it had simply slipped my mind. Looking at the map of the roads ahead of us, I[...]
(I’ll assume you already read about Day 1) On Friday (July 16), Marline and I kept Misha and Kyla company while their parents took care of some car-related and moving-related business. Kyla is six but can read like an eight-year-old. Misha is one, and is working on walking and talking. Several times, we saw her[...]
First, let me say I intended to post here before now. However, lest any of you think I’ve been away from the internet, remember that I have a photoblog on Flickr (here), where I post almost every day, and where I keep in contact with the outside world. So I’m not apologizing for the lack[...]
Our 10 months in Killeen have been busy and sometimes tumultuous, but things settled enough recently into a routine that it was time we had a visit from some family members. On July 8, my parents and brother came for a short visit, which we enjoyed immensely. That evening (Thursday), all five of us crammed[...]
Since my last entry on the house construction, several things have happened. On Saturday, June 26, I attended the birthday party of one of my Flickr friends in Austin. There was outdoor grilling, giant bubble blowing, piñata hitting, and a lot of picture taking. I had a great time. Though all the pictures I took[...]
Flickr did their biggest change ever this evening. There’s a little more about that on my other blog. I’m seriously considering ending my eight-year relationship with Flickr. If only there were another decent place to share photos (and remember, I said “decent”, so no one suggest Facebook). Rebecca worked on learning my limits again today.[...]
WEATHER: 72-93°F, mostly cloudy RLF requested the playground today, after a few weeks of not going, so I said okay. She wouldn’t walk there; only rode in the stroller. And only played there for about five minutes before she was ready to come home. (This is why we’d quit going in the first place.) She[...]
➤ A couple of nights ago, Rebecca woke up crying about 2 a.m. My wife heard it, rushed in. RLF said she needed to go to the bathroom. MF took her; RLF did. Then RLF went back to sleep. (I didn’t wake up. Noises will prevent me from falling asleep, but very little will wake[...]
After a cooler than average spring, yesterday was the hottest day of the year (high: 92°F) until today’s record high of 96°F. Had a pretty good day with Rebecca (scroll down for photos).
Rebecca did well with potty again today — still working on #2. After an early, short, and surprising nap (she put herself down at 11:50 for just an hour), much of the afternoon was full of fussing and craziness. I got a new debit card today, to replace the old one that was cracking and[...]
(Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.) Today, Rebecca — for the first time — went to the bathroom somewhere besides our house.
(Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
A few days ago, we passed what I’ve jokingly called “the Rebecca threshold” with our Benjamin pregnancy. She was born about 7 weeks before her due date. As of May 10, we passed that point in the current pregnancy. My wife’s at 34 weeks as of today, and about nine pounds lighter than she was[...]
(Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
Rebecca woke with a dry diaper this morning and kept her panties dry all day, using her potty correctly all day. We spent the day shifting from (1) us asking if she needed to go to (2) her telling us when she needed to go. And, after three days of holding it, she went #2[...]
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