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no new pics...

August 31, 2004

yet. i'm a big slacker. taking photos has not been at the forefront of my mind lately. today i start school. i'm officially a grad student--i checked, it says so on my i.d. card. jen hemphill, graduate student. sounds sort of cool, don't you think? well, it may sound cool, but somehow i'm a nervous wreck today with the thought of embarking on this long drawn out task. i hate the unknown. it scares me. i keep telling myself that it will all be fine, it will be good for me, blah-blah-blah. the good news is, unlike taking undergrad courses, i am not the oldest student! hoorah! tonight i get a better idea of workload.... i'm sure it's like, "you must write 20 pages per week!" or something ridiculous like that.

in the spirit of the new school season, sebastien has become quite the intellect. he reads and reads book after book. if brian or i sit down in seb's general vicinity, we are guaranteed to be given a book to read to him. some of his favorites are, dr. suess' abc an amazing alphabet book (four fluffy feathers on a fiffer-feffer-feff), brown bear brown bear, baby einstein's bard's rhyme time ( oooh, flaps), among others. i'd be pretty tickled with a little seba bookworm.

seb had his 15 month well baby checkup. he's grown another 2 inches in length but his weight only increased by a pound, which means he's still a bit under the 20 lb mark. there's nothing like a medical health professional telling you you're not doing a good enough job feeding your kid to make you really feel inadequate. like i had a problem having those feelings to begin with. yeesh. so now i'm in a panic about how to coerce seb into eating things he's just not interested in eating while at the same time not forcing him. ahhh, the irony. all in all, he's healthy and smart and stuff. and his head is still growing so i know his brain is in okay shape. so why am i so worried and upset? i guess it's just my job now.

(if anyone with experience feeding finicky eaters wants to pass along any advice, feel free to email me: jkh+anklebiter.net.)

Boy Genius

August 12, 2004

camping

August 02, 2004

seb walks as though he's being pulled along by some unseen force holding onto a string attached to his belly button, his little legs trying to keep up, tripping and faultering along the terrain of our house. right now, he's running circles around the dining room table, making pit stops at his highchair to buckle the buckle, which he is becoming an expert at even in his youth.

camping and climbing a couple of weeks ago was fun for all of us. as you can see, seb helped put the tent up (i knew there was some utilitarian reason for having a kid!).

the great outdoors can be tiring! but seb never seems to want to nap...

or go to sleep at night--he had a ball crawling in circles around the tent and playing with our headlamps.