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Naebody in Particular

You won't find them on a shortbread tin, but our ancestors live on so long as we keep telling their stories. Scots, Yanks, Canucks and the Auld Enemy. Newest posts are the ancestors, but scroll for the living.

  • video: rollover (!!!)

    httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFk1f6j7qr4

    ps. it’s better when you can hear the soundtrack. as an aside, i quickly figured out that she would only rollover when i was *not* in the room, so i setup the camera and hid in the hallway until she flipped. worked like a champ. i guess she must have had performance anxiety.

  • pretty sure there are a couple of bad things happening in this photo …

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    so, it turns out that sparklet (a) enjoys sleeping on her stomach, and (b) can fit her legs in between the slats in the crib. later in the afternoon, she actually got her leg stuck in the slats, which was vaguely terrifying … but a story for another time.

  • the mayor of walter pierce park

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    photo of the week // week twenty-three
    baby sparklet and i have been playing around with foursquare, a gps-powered social media app that lets people “check-in” to locations, and become “mayor” if you check-in at a place more than anybody else.

    well, i’m pleased to announce that sparklet is now the mayor of walter pierce park.

    i wasn’t paying much attention to foursquare until i saw Wired co-founder John Battelle speak on the future of social media while i was in Salt Lake City. he said that once you became mayor of your grocery store (for instance), you’d be darned if you’d let anyone else be there more than you.

    he was right.

    and so, we’ll be back to the park early next week. sparklet’s a benevolent leader, but isn’t going to stand by and let the rest of the tots in the lot move in on her fiefdom.

    (p.s. i you are on foursquare, you can friend sparklet on her profile, here.)

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    the mayor of walter pierce park, washington, dc

  • “ladylike? i haz dat.”

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  • out: alexandria waterfront

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    out: waterfront, alexandria, virginia

  • video: Rollover (almost)

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNbqv4k5HhM

    i have it on good authority that baby sparklet has rolled-over half a dozen times or more … but i have yet to experience it for myself, though she’s definitely in the ballpark.

  • out: takeout picnic in dupont

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    baby momma got stuck late at work again, so sparklet and i wandered down to give her that last little bit of incentive to get out the door. we grabbed dinner from bgr, and then ate it on the benches that surround dupont’s fountain. i think we’ve found a new model for eating out, that doesn’t rely on cramming a stroller inside a tiny, 25-top restaurant.
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    out: takeout picnic in dupont circle, washington, dc

  • found: bff’s

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    baby sparklet and her nanny share partner, talimo.

  • rollover minutes

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    baby sparklet has developed all sorts of new tricks lately.

    she’s got this neat one where she rolls her lower lip, draws her face down impossibly far, and then begins to wail uncontrollably … until you feed her, of course, and then it’s all better.

    up until this morning, her new favorite one was waking up at 4am because she’d rolled half-way over, gotten stuck, and needed mommy or daddy to come flip her back. that ended this morning when she rolled half-way over, got stuck, and then decided “meh?” and went back to sleep.

    keep moving forward, sparklet. keep moving forward.

  • march madness

    UTEP in the sweet 16? BYU in the elite 8? Baylor in the final four? fortune favors the bold … but does it favor the clueless?

    i hate picking brackets because of what my brother and i call the UNC problem … North Carolina is always going to win (tho, not this year!) and it sucks to have to pick them.

    so about five years ago i stopped.

    this year, i’m back in … but taking a new tactic. i’m picking what i WANT to have happen, instead of what i THINK will happen.

    georgetown goes to the elite 8 (civic pride). old dominion makes it out of the first round (loyalty to CAA basketball). pitt loses in the third round (living in DC/maryland, one develops a hatred of all things pittsburgh). villanova spontaneously combusts in the round of 32 (still bitter about the 1985 ncca final). duke doesn’t make the final four (sorry, collin).

    there are limits, however.

    obviously, i WANT kentucky to lose to texas (hook’em horns), but they won’t … and i WANT maryland to win the whole thing (grandfather born in college park, i lived in MD for a decade and never more than 12 miles off campus) but that’s just not going to happen (part of being a maryland fan is expecting them to choke).

    so we’ll see how it goes. hopefully fortune favors the hopeful.