The Dutton Family Weblog

It’s coming…


I can sense something in the wind… *grin*

Her first strange behavior. And it is cute!


Now that Ivy is crawling everywhere, a whole new world of tasty objects is within her grasp…. including toilet paper! This week she seems to have discovered she likes eating paper. All kinds of paper. Pages ripped from the phone book. Sleeves from CD or DVD. And especially [...]

Stress Test Results


Well, the meeting with the doctor today was fairly uneventful, which is good. Results from the stress test were normal - “no blockages.” In fact, the BP today was great - 118/78
So, I “just” have a mild mitral valve regurgitation. Cause is not known - could have been congenital, but who knows. The [...]

Home thoughts


I have been a hobby-level househunter for going on 15 years now. It’s taken me from the outskirts of Ft. Bend county where a very early boggy version of Sienna Plantation was under development in the mid-1990s, to now around and in the Heights area of Houston (where we currently rent).
Along the way, marriage and [...]

A bit of Houston history for lunch


We drive past it every morning when Joey drops me off at work in the office downtown, so today with things being slow in the office, I decided to walk over to the Houston Heritage museum in Sam Houston Park and take a tour of the old buildings there.
Saw some pretty nifty stuff and learned [...]

Sabado en la playa/Saturday at the beach


Saturday morning, Holly and I decided to take the whole crew to the beach for some sandy fun. The weather in Galveston was promising to be a little cooler than Houston, so it sounded good to me. We arrived early and found a good place to park. Then, we took a [...]

Ivy’s First Baseball Game


The day after her birthday, we all went to see the Astros host the Mets at Minute Maid Park. It was Ivy’s first baseball game, and she did fairly well. A bit wiggly, but with all that energy in one little body, who can sit still THAT long. The Astros won the game (complete with [...]

Ivy’s First Doll


In Arkansas, Grandma Shirley bought Ivy a doll for her birthday. But Ivy is in Houston! So Grandma bought her the doll a ticket to fly to Houston and to be with Ivy forevermore. This is her journey…
Ivy’s First Doll. She doesn’t have a name yet because she’s… well,… [...]