Life and Times of the Sharp Family

According to my husband, this was a "momentous" occasion. We got free Tigers tickets on Sunday and without hesitation, we were on our way to Comerica Park for Breslin's first Tiger game. It goes without saying that the trip trumped his first picnic on Friday night. Anyway, it was a big, big deal. We slathered on the sunscreen (on Breslin too) and packed up the bottle cooler and spent the day at the ballpark. Breslin enjoyed all the sights and sounds of the game, including a dad-narrated tour of Comerica Park, dad's player info, and and dad's play by play of the game. Instead of finding our seats in the nosebleeds at Comerica, we found a picnic table on the concourse that we could actually watch the game from. This made is exceptionally easy to spread out all of our baby paraphanalia and watch the game while walking or bouncing Bres when he got fussy. The roar of the crowd, 38,000 strong, was a little scary for Bres and the sun was tiring, but we think based on

BRESLIN LAUGHED! I know that if I was reading some crazy lady's blog and she told the entire world that her kid laughed, I would probably not think that it was a big deal. I am telling you, as a mom, to hear your child laugh is the most amazing sound in the entire universe. I instantly burst into tears and was filled with an unspeakable joy. The laugh was so tiny, but it was a definite, distinct laugh. Breslin was sitting on Colby's lap and I was being goofy trying to make him smile and he LAUGHED! It's going too fast. I don't want any more firsts, ok? We're good with what we've accomplished so far. I don't want him growing up and leaving me. I want to remember all of these moments in perfect clarity forever. I love being a mom. I especially love being Breslin's mom. It is my favorite thing about who I am. Congratulations to Russell and Karen Gaston, our friends who gave birth to beautiful healthy baby girl, Avah Grace on March 22nd. She is absolutely pe

Happy Easter, everyone! It's Breslin's first "real" holiday. Colby and I made biting comments about all of the ridiculous people who bought Easter baskets for babies...after all, they don't know what's going on, so why should they get an Easter basket? Well, we finally caved and went shopping for Breslin's Easter basket on Saturday afternoon. Breslin got a couple of onesies, a Baby Einstein CD, some wrist wrattles, and a bunch of Easter Eggs filled with nickels. Alaina got a substantial number of Reese's peanut butter eggs and Colby stocked up on Starburst jelly beans. Not a bad trip, all in all. We (meaning Alaina) even colored Easter eggs and wrote the letters of Breslin's name on each egg. It truly bordered on ridiculous, but it was fun. Breslin got a cool new outfit and posed for a picture with Dad. After all of the Easter excitement, he took a three hour nap and has now decided that he is officially "Eastered out", until next year an

Spring Break has proven to be a wonderful and relaxing time for all members of the Sharp family. We're seeing some major smiles out of Breslin, who is beginning to love the chair almost as much as his dad.