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Saxon loves to smile, to giggle, to laugh. Here’s a short movie clip Carey made of Saxon laughing. If you enjoy it 1/10 as much as I do, it will be worth 15 seconds to take a look.

Saxon isn’t just “ready for her closeup” (Mr. Demille), but she’s ready to start taking closeups. Or at least put the camera in her mouth to check it out.

what are we doing dad?

oh, taking photos. look at that hottie.

lemme take one dad.

You have to love Texas weather. At least this time of year, you do. It’s a lovely 72 degrees outside today and that’s the high predicted for the entire week. I can hear our Yankee friends groaning right now…but they’ll have a laugh when we are sweating our socks off in August in the 100+ heat. And of course, it could snow next week, but I’m certainly going to enjoy this week!

It is such a beautiful day, I thought I would post a couple of photos of early-blooming flowers.

We’ve had a lot of requests to post some photos of Saxon’s nursery online. We wanted to create a space for Saxon that didn’t completely spell B-A-B-Y, a room that she wouldn’t outgrow right away. Wow. What a difficult task it was. Especially considering most baby furniture/decor looks like it was designed by a twelve year old using her “Groovy Barbie Furniture Designer” CD or her “It’s gotta be Pooh” templates.

saxon on the move

bird’s eye view photo

Saxon hanging out with her big dog snuggle mat
Thanks again, Wendy & Allen

believe it or not, a humidifier
Crane Adorable One Gallon Cool Mist Ultrasonic Humidifier, Penguin Shape

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

What a productive day it was today for Dad. On Valentine’s Eve, we received a phone call from Saxon’s nanny, Yadi, saying that her son was sick and she had to take him to the doctor the next day…and that she would call us and let us know what time she would be in. Carey called a nanny/babysitting service who was “a little short-staffed” right now.

Since Carey had a full day of conference calls, I knew I had the privelege of taking one for the team. Saxon spent the day hanging out at Dad’s office. Twas quite a busy day for Saxon. She got to meet Allen & Wendy Mitchell, who office in the same building. Claire O’Malley (mom of www.omalleywedding.com) was in town from San Antonio and came by with a huge bag of books she had purchased for Saxon (Thanks, Claire!).

Saxon was in a very happy mood so I decided to snap a few photos (coming soon). Around 2 pm, I began feeling dizzy and realized the breakfast at 0600 hours was a very long time ago. So Saxon and I headed to Pepe y Mito’s Mexican Cafe in Deep Ellum. Despite the best efforts of the waitstaff at Pepe y Mito’s to awaken Saxon by dragging chairs and tables around their polished concrete floor, Saxon slept all the way to the end of my short meal - only jolted out of a nice nap when some moron nice busboy shattered some glasses on the way back to the kitchen. Doh!

By the way, GONE are the days when Saxon could be placed in the center of a blanket, given a couple of toys that would content her for, oh, say, 5 minutes, max. For those keeping score, Saxon is now Mo-Bile, crawling around, exploring everything she can get her hands upon.

We headed back to the office and took a few more pictures, including some pictures of Saxon’s cute, little naked butt (remind me to wash the freshly-peed upon backdrop). Saxon took a very short nap again and woke up hungry as a hippo. No more milk = time to go home. Quite the busy day.

Here are some photos taken last month, when Saxon was 5 months old. You can click the More Photos link below to see, well, more photos. You can even buy them at Flickr if you want ‘em.

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