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Tag: Sparklet

  • guestbook: grandparents

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    IMG_1338, originally uploaded by [ecpark].

  • good night, moon

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    ECPA20100116_x016, originally uploaded by [ecpark].

  • paternity

    [The Nature Conservancy's Hellen Creek Hemlock Preserve, Lusby, Maryland.]
    IMG_0522.CR2, originally uploaded by [ecpark].
    it’s 4:01 pm, and i’m officially on paternity leave … and will be on full-time sparklet duty between now and February 17th, so the lady sparkler can go back to work.

    being able to take this much time is one of the great benefits of working at a non-profit — and one of the great benefits of having great coworkers — that i can (a) disappear for this long, and (b) not be worried that the world is going to end without me.

    right now, the only burning question in my mind is whether i will now have more time to blog, or less. and i guess that means that life is pretty good.

  • video: yabber

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54p2vl84k4I

  • take mommy to work day

    we’re in the slow countdown to mommy going back to work (first day back is tuesday) so we took a trip downtown to (a) get mommy back in the swing of things, and (b) get baby sparklet her first look at the fastlane of digital public relations.

    she even sat in on her first client conference call, but was clearly less than impressed.

    because we are “those” type parents, we immediately started wondering what she was going to be when she grows up.

    we’ve already ruled out a life in ballet, but with her current obsession for color and light, i’m thinking she’s a future digital graphic designer.

    based on her first conference call, however, we’re pretty sure sparklet won’t be a project manager or account executive. she slept through most of the call, and was pretty ornery when people on the call started asking questions.

    fittingly, those traits seems to mesh nicely with my understanding of being a designer … at least in the online, non-profit setting.

    UPDATE: yes, i know that the image is of the lady sparklet in an Abaya … and no, she doesn’t wear one to work everyday, but last year she spent a week in Saudi Arabia doing client work …. and yes, i think the notion of her being in an Abaya is pretty damn funny, too.

  • video: peekaboo

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYBSDZEq7oo

  • guestbook: kristina, benton and calder

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    ECPA20100110_x002, originally uploaded by [ecpark].
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  • “itsy-bitsy (internet-savvy) spiiider, went up the water spout…”

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    ECPA20100107_1312, originally uploaded by [ecpark].

  • video: first giggles

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F08wbTPY-gI

    we’ve got the certified “first giggles” of the new baby sparklet administration … people kept telling us that we’d turn to mush the first time she smiled and laughed, and we absolutely blew them off as “yeah, whatever.”

    turn out they were right. also turns out that we are still on the path to be one of “those” people. God, i’m going to hate to hang out with myself at cocktail parties and happy hours, assuming we even make the invite list again …

  • sleep

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    ECPA20100106_3138, originally uploaded by [ecpark].
    this is a picture of baby sparklet sleeping. last night she went to bed at 10:30 pm. this morning she slept until 5:30 am. by my math — which is admittedly as fuzzy as my brain — that’s seven hours of uninterrupted sleep.

    while we don’t have one, please imagine a picture of the lady sparkler and i doing a samba in celebration. the part that puts us over the moon, however, is that baby sparklet did this all miles away from us (well, 20 feet) in her very own room, in her very own bed.

    words honestly can’t explain what it’s like to get sleep after months without, but i am pretty sure that the lady sparkler will talk your ear off, with joy, trying.