Comments will still be moderated to prevent spam from appearing–so a comment will only appear after a short delay once we’ve had a chance to make sure it’s legit–but you no longer need to register or set up an account to participate.

You’re still entirely welcome to register an account here, of course, but it’s absolutely no longer required.

We really hope that any of you that have been hesitant to post comments will now take a moment to participate in articles and posts and other news or tidbits we post here. We’re excited to open things up a little bit, and we’re hoping this leads to good discussion and feedback. Thank you!

We’d like to try again. To that end, we’ve updated the page and we’re going to try and continue to update it with a bit more regularity.

We’re also working on the pictures thing. Still. Alex has in no way been satisfied with the various photo solutions, so there’s a mix of different things here and there that we’ve tried (won’t bore you with the technical details), and you’ll likely see a few more as we move forward. Bear with us, and just take the pictures any way you can get ‘em for now, OK? ;)

ALSO, PLEASE HELP US: If you interact with Benjamin and have heard a word or phrase that’s not listed on his Words page, let us know! If you have any pictures of Benjamin (or any of his relatives!) that you think would be great to have posted here on the website, that would be great too! Benjamin loves it when we read posts here to him about things he’s done, places he’s been, people he’s visited, etc, and he loves the (so very few so far) pictures we’ve posted.

We really do want to create as thorough a record of his life with words and pictures as we can, so we have memories for ourselves and for him…and for you, too. Any contribution(s) you make to this effort would be very much appreciated by all of us here! :)

Benjamin will be an older brother to a younger brother. In other words, we’re expecting a boy! (Coming in September!)

So if you didn’t know already, now you do. ;)

Since we were camping the rest of the weekend, and Stacey’s Mom’s parents were there, too, we were also able to tell them in person. This past weekend turned into great timing all around for us.

We don’t have a name picked out yet. Figuring out Benjamin’s name took us a very long time, and this new baby’s name will be no different, we suspect, but we do have a couple of early ideas…

Thanks for bearing with us with this website lately, too. We have a bunch of stuff to add, but it’s been a very busy spring/early summer so far. Bottom line: Benjamin’s doing great!

Lots of people have the Google Toolbar installed in their browser these days. I’ve created a very simple button that lives on that toolbar that you can use to keep current on the latest happenings; it updates itself automatically, in fact…you don’t need to do anything. If you don’t have Google’s Toolbar installed, consider it; it’s pretty darn handy for a lot of things.

[Note: This only works with Internet Explorer.... Sorry Firefox and Opera, etc. users.]

If you’re interested, click here:

Add the benjaminfalkenberg.com Google Toolbar button!

The icon that ends up sitting in the toolbar is a small picture of Benjamin, too… Bonus! ;)

Again, this toolbar button is made to work with Google’s Toolbar, so you need to have that for this button to work…

Of course, the regular RSS/feed link–found at the bottom of the pretty much every page on this site–continues to exist for those of you with RSS/feed readers… Enjoy! :)

As usual, let us know if you find anything looking or acting strangely, so we can fix it. Your feedback is always appreciated! :)

You shouldn’t notice anything different. If you do, please let us know.

Anyway… I’ve not forgotten. Eventually, you’ll have something to LOOK at and not just stuff to READ. The big question of “When?” remains of course… but hopefully not for TOO much longer.

Thanks for…umm, sticking with us. ;) Alex expects to set up a gallery or two of photos in the next few days–really! :)

Oh, and we’d still appreciate you registering, of course…. it helps us know who’s reading/looking, if nothing else. :)

We’ve changed the site… moved from the somewhat crappy template we were using to a Wordpress weblog setup that we hope will work out a lot better.

Please… READ THIS about site registration! It’s important!

(go ahead and click here to register)

There’s a lot of work to be done yet, and pictures, pictures, pictures…we know! The picture processing alone is a massive task. Expect to see them get added back in… some in with posts, some in their own separate gallery pages, etc.

You’ll notice that there’s a fair amount of “historical” content here… we had to update this site with things as they happened, but it was before we could really publish it, so it will seem weird to see content here that’s “old” on a “new” website.

Thanks so much for your patience with us as we get this whole thing worked out!

If you have any questions, comments, or any other feedback, please let us know. It’s also possible, despite our best efforts, that you might (though you really, really shouldn’t) run into some broken page links, images that aren’t showing up, etc… it would be great if you could let us know if you find anything like that, too.

–Stacey and Alex