I completely unplugged from television news years ago, but I understand that television is leaning pretty heavily on Twitter these days for news coming out of Iran. That’s interesting, but it’s good to keep in mind that the unfiltered news is not necessarily reliable. Mark Ambinder wants us to treat Twitter the way [...]

New things Sprout has done today:

Tasted faux-chicken Morningstar Farms buffalo wings. Learned to dip his finger in honey-mustard dressing to see what it tastes like. Tried drinking honey-mustard dressing. Seen a dog parade. Gone to his first community festival. Waved at a couple hundred people Eaten kettle corn.

You know, it’s worth mentioning that large swaths of the country are still without power after Ike.

I realize I haven’t blogged much recently about Cory — we should probably come up with a nickname for him along the same lines as “Elf” — but change is starting to come pretty rapidly now. He hasn’t quite figured out crawling or sitting yet, but he [...]

I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile, but almost every time I have my camera in my hands it’s taking pictures of Cory. But our friend Missie the Blogless did a fantastic cross-stitch to celebrate Cory’s birth, and it’s hanging right now in his bedroom. Fortunately, Missie the Blogless started her own blog and [...]

I’ve been thinking more and more about my personal media collection — books, movies, music, and video games — and at what point it’s appropriate to introduce our son to these. I imagine we’ll have to wing it. But here, like many other decisions we’ve made so far, we are probably going to end up [...]

Cory has started making all kinds of faces. After a great deal of effort, I finally managed to get a picture of my favorite one:

It was actually several days before I saw this face clearly. I was always catching it out of the corner of my [...]

You know, I was going to post something about this:

I couldn’t help noticing, however, how different the Thanksgiving experience was for my husband and children, both boys. Thanksgiving was a day off from school and work, 48 hours spent getting their relax on.

What is it about Thanksgiving that highlights to the unwritten, [...]

at least for Cory: