The famWelcome to my site - my name is John Duke. My wife is Suzanne and we have 2 girls - one named Audrey and the other named Grace.

I began this blog in 2008 when my girls were both 2 and a half (Audrey in years, Grace in months) and hence named it 2andahalf.com. Now, we have two girls and a boy puppy and 2andahalf has taken on a new meaning, although Barry may well be more work than half a kid.

Audrey

Audrey was born in 2006. She had olive skin, steel-grey eyes and nearly black hair at birth. Today she has fair skin, brown eyes and hair that is sandy blond with broad curls. Neither I nor my wife have curls like hers so we get questions about where her curls come from. The answer? We wake up an hour early every day to curl her hair and make them look perfect. Needless to say we're tired.

Grace

Grace was born in 2008. She was slightly smaller than her sister and had black hair and dark blue eyes. Today she has blond, wispy hair and sky-blue eyes. She can furrow her brow in the most serious way and when she laughs everyone else does too.

The rest you can learn from reading the site - thanks for visiting.

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THINGS PEOPLE ONCE SAID

  • "A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for." ~Unknown
  • "Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter." ~Joseph Addison
  • "There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself." ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
  • "Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again." ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
  • "There are three stages of a man’s life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus." ~Unknown
  • "A father carries pictures where his money used to be." ~Unknown
  • "Disobedience is the infant’s first step toward autonomy." ~Lewis Mumford