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By Erik Rasmussen

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Short conversations with my bride

This is the closest you’ll get to a picture of us in our pajamas

With god as my witness, I have never seen ‘Angela’s Ashes’

Hmm, ‘Angela’s Ashes’. Remember that?
No.
What do you mean, ‘no’? We saw it together.
I never saw ‘Angela’s Ashes’.
Robert Carlyle, poor family? [makes 'ringing any bells, dumbass?' face]
Since when does Robert Carlyle not play [...]

You look pretty good…

Yet more evidence…

…that I don’t deserve her. Yesterday was Magda’s name day:

Her parents remembered

Today is National Sorry Day in Australia. This is not what you may think.

Sorry, honey!

Here’s last year’s mention, featuring an adorable old picture of her.
Today is also Mother’s Day in Poland:
Magda [shouting into bathroom]: I’ve got one on the tit and the other one [...]

Fat-bottomed pear

I buy the ass-shaped fruit. Magda photographs it. Adam eats it without qualm.

Words you expect to follow 'beautiful, curly' that aren't 'hair'

Operation: Soggy Crotch, Week One Two Progress Report

If this is not my second-favorite SMS ever received, I don’t know what is.

Afternoon bamboo

For the last few days I have been back on full-time father duty, taking care of the two-year-old while the younger boy logs a bronchitis-related hospital stay — Magda is there, too, seeing to his dairy needs. They went in to the hospital, the same ineffably ugly structure where Adam and Alek were born, on [...]

Okay, seriously

A few especially sharp-eyed readers doubted the veracity of the previous post, particularly the photographs. It is true that Magda does not wear her hair in bangs/fringe. To appease these sticklers, some photos from Alek’s first day on this crazy planet.

In roughly chronological order:

Adam gets used to the idea. Four hours pre-water-breakage.

A self-portrait in the [...]

Two and terrible

Magda gets credit for this picture — click through to a slideshow

Two today. Two years old. As in “Terrible Two”, the first operator of which you’ve actually been since about 1.5, but now we’re making it official. How are you terrible? Let me count the ways…

Asymmetrical response to any thwarting at all
Toothpaste-covered toothbrush ≠ lollipop
Refusal [...]

December 6, 2005

T-Bone made this quick sketch to illustrate Adam’s sleeping posture one year ago today. The rectangular form represents the crib he has recently outgrown, with the short vertical line on the right being the top, or head, of the mattress. The sausage-like protrusions from the crib’s perimeter show Adam’s arms being thrust through the bars [...]

Another best year

Two years ago today Magda’s father loaded his shotgun wedding vows made me the happiest man in Nova Gorica, a title I still retain, although that guy on Kidričeva with the lucky ham is a close runner-up.

Following our efficient and thrifty yet still deeply moving ceremony, we walked from the Občina, [...]