I attended a diversity event at work today and was shocked and saddened that PA is one of 30 states that still allows employers to fire someone because of their sexual orientation. Boo! Check out pflag.org (parents and friends of lesbians and gays) for info on how to contact your representative if this shocks and saddens you also.

My lovely, thoughtful and talented wife took the following pictures of Siobhán and put them into a 3 picture frame for my first Father’s Day present:

These are all pictures that Bridget took with her new camera that I got her for Mother’s Day

She went out and bought the letters (and was smart enough to know she just needed a single “D”!), dressed up Siobhán in a cute dress my mom got for her, and then patiently took a few hundred pictures in order to get the ones above!

She then downloaded all of the pictures into Adobe Lightroom (which I was very impressed she was able to figure out), and then printed the 3 above ones and put them into a photo frame for me for Father’s Day!

It was such a wonderful present!

Here are some more pictures of Siobhán now at 8 months old. She is just growing up way too quickly! She is drinking and eating on her own now, it just makes me so sad when I think about just a little while back holding her and feed her bottles.

Here are some of the pictures that I took:

You can see all of the pictures here, or view a slideshow here.

We took Siobhán to the Brandywine Strawberry Festival with my mom for some fun.

Here are some of the pictures that I took:

You can see all of the pictures here, or view a slideshow here.

We took Siobhán to the Jersey Shore for the first time over the Memorial Day weekend, and stayed with my cousin Bob at his place in North Wildwood. We took Siobhán up on the boardwalk and on some of the rides, which she really enjoyed. We also took a trip up to Avalon to see Bridget’s Uncle Paul and Aunt Ann, and went down to Cape May for the day as well.

Here are some of the pictures that I took:

You can see all of the pictures here, or view a slideshow here.

Bridget, her mom, Siobhán and I were honored to be invited this year to Father Charlie’s dinner for my cousin Bob.

Here are some of the pictures that I took:

You can see all of the pictures here, or view a slideshow here.

We took Siobhán to Sugartown Day along with Vanessa, Madeline and Ben. Sugartown is an interesting historic crossroads village, and they had all kinds of events for the day.

Here are some of the pictures that I took:

You can see all of the pictures here, or view a slideshow here.

Siobhán was all dressed up and so cute for her first Easter. We took her to church in the morning, and took some pictures of her in her Easter dress when we got back home.

Here are some new pictures:

You can see all of the pictures here, or view a slideshow here.

Yesterday we celebrated Siobhán’s 6th Month Birthday!  We also took her in for her checkup to see Dr. Giacobbe at Advocare in West Goshen.  She just loves her doctor because she is so friendly, and so do we… she is very good and spends plenty of time during the checkup (almost an hour).

Here are her stats for the checkup:  Her lenght is 25 1/4 inches, which is in the 25-50 percentile.  Her weight is 15 pounds, 10 ounces, which is almost in the 50th percentile.  And she has a big head (since she is so smart!)  It is 16 3/4 inches, which is in the 50-75 percentile.

Here are some pictures from the day she was born:

And a few from her 6th month birthday yesterday:

Our wee little one, Siobhán, would like to wish everyone a very happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Here are some new pictures:

You can see all of the pictures here, or view a slideshow here.