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smile like you mean it

October 5, 2010

well, auntie jojo picked a heck of a weekend to come visit. sparklet got sick on Friday — a pretty standard ear/nose/throat thing — and i picked it up like clockwork on Sunday night. (it’s Tuesday, and i still haven’t been to work this week.)

thank God she was family, and not somebody that we were trying to impress.
baby’s new web site design

October 3, 2010

happy (early) birthday, sparklet!

daddy doesn’t do much, be he does do web sites — so he spent the last couple of days designing and building out an new look in honor of your first birthday.

the last design was great, but it was mostly someone else’s work, and i threw it up literally overnight when bad people started doing bad things to our website.

so happy birthday, baby sparklet.

someday you’ll be able to read — and when you can, you’ll finally understand why daddy’s been sticking that camera in your face for the last 12 months.
“mommy — this would go better if my shoes weren’t on backwards.”

October 3, 2010
national zoo

October 3, 2010

see slideshow of the photos on flickr:
national zoo, washington, dc
hank’s oyster bar

October 2, 2010

photo of the week // week fifty-one

it wasn’t ten minutes into our dinner tonight at hank’s oyster bar that i noticed — sparklet was tonight’s reminder to all the couples in the room to use birth control.

we’re pretty sure she’s getting sick (head cold), she’s teething out of her skull (we’re up to 8 teeth now, at least that we can see), she’s not sleeping (see first two) and now that she’s walking regularly, she’s just not finding the sweet confines of a high chair quite as alluring.

i did the first (of what i’m sure will be many) evacuation of a restaurant so others could eat in peace — which is more than fine, as i’m always the first one done eating.

we decided to play in traffic (and with strange dogs) instead.

see slideshow of photos on flickr:
hank’s oyster bar, washington, dc
guestbook: auntie jojo

October 2, 2010

see all the photos on flickr:
guestbook
out: walter pierce park

October 2, 2010

see slideshow of photos on flickr:
walter pierce park, washington, dc
found: september

September 30, 2010

See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr:
camera dump: september
auntie jojo, guest photographer

September 30, 2010

auntie jojo is town this weekend, which means we have all sorts of bonuses — extra set of hands, extra eyes for averting potential disasters, extra brain to cover the sleep deprived, extra attention span for she-who-has-separation-anxiety, and an extra person looking through the view finder. i hope she never leaves.

see slideshow of the photos on flickr:
auntie jojo, photos from guest photographer
“i got my passport, furball — where’s yours?”

September 28, 2010