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the birth of a child means

Published on July 13, 2009 in family, News and Site notice. Closed

a return to blogging? maybe, maybe not. I’m thinking I need to start short blogging here again. say a paragraph once a week via the wordpress iphone app spewed out during lunch at work once i get back to work that is… um yeah, baby bump #2 turned into a real boy at 21.5in, 8lb13.5oz just a couple days before the end of june, i attended his bris from the third most uncomfortable position (first being his, second being his mama’s), and now i’m just getting used to being a father in a true nuclear family (2.3 kids=2 kids + 3 cats)… I have less than two weeks leave in my paternity leave and I’m loving every moment I have at home… enough bragging though… is this paragraph long enough? I you want to see baby pics hit the flickr feed and make us a contact to see them or hit me up on facebook (we like keeping baby faces private) back to my fatherly duties, until next time…

schleif-OUT

Swine Flu? Not here

Published on April 27, 2009 in News. Closed

In case the weekend’s news has gotten you a little worries, the CDC has all kinds of information to help you out.

also, eventually I’ll write a post about me and stuff

a reason to tweet less?

Published on March 28, 2009 in Flash, humor and Twitter. Closed Tags: , , , .

Learning to draw

Published on January 27, 2009 in family. Closed Tags: , , , , .

This evening while getting a bath Annabel showed off her hand writing skills. We bought bath crayons (not much of a selection out there by the way) a month or so ago to convince her to enjoy baths and now just asking if she wants to draw in the tub evokes a smile and rush to bathe. So she is holding a yellow crayon this evening and scribbling in the soap dish on the wall while being scrubbed down. This is accomplished while standing with a parent using the handheld showerhead to rinse her down. Scrubs are quick and then followed by play in the soon to be filled tub. This evening she leaned towards the inside side of the tub (below the wall above the water line) and started to draw. Really draw though (with a modern art style). She adjusted the crayon from the usual fist grip to a handing writer’s righthanded grip and scribbled with intention. Obviously this required a cheer from daddy which evoked a smile. Then I asked her to show me how she can draw and she readjusted the crayon in her grip and went back to it. Since she was bathing I didn’t have a camera so you will just have to believe me, or trust the independent confirmation of the wife who was promptly called in to see how her daughter can draw. Now to get her to draw for mama and daddy on the freshly hung 16×24 drawing paper found on our walls for scribbling. Pictures as they become available, of course.

at 15 months, she is a normal height…

Published on January 14, 2009 in Flickr. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , .

…for a 19 month old, but a little slender for a 19 month old, though she is a 15 month old (or will be this weekend)

Wow, we got a big kid.

Other updates, looks like we are going to get that bump/horn on her head scanned. The shaped changed a month or so ago and the doc wants some more info on it. We’re aren’t worried and are sure it can be taken care of…

and finally…

Phone call from the wife on this subject ended with the following:

“ha ha ha… She grabbed the laundry basket filled with clean clothes and threw the clothes onto the floor. Then she dragged the basket over to me and got in it. Next she scream/pointed to ask me to drag the basket back to the pile of clothes with her in it. Now she is putting the clothes back into the basket with her… hee hee ha ha”

ERROR ERROR: Daily Twitter digest for

Published on January 13, 2009 in Twitter. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

Apparently there is a problem with Twitter Tools and Wordpres 2.7 and 20 versions of this post were shat upon my blog early this morning. for clarity I deleted all but this post and have edited this post to include this error message. Now looking for a better digest of tweets to blogpost plugin for wordpress.

  • last night Sen David Vitter said he will try to challenge Sen Clinton on her qualifications to be Secretary of State… #
  • while Sen Vitter is speaking to Sen Clinton she will be thinking: “At least my husband didn’t have to pay to cheat on me.” #
  • GoogleRead=> dog walker in snow http://tinyurl.com/7b7eq7 #
  • GoogleRead=> Editorial: New Orleanians, and the nation, know what happened after Katrina http://tinyurl.com/8yofea #
  • wonder if any of these dog recommendations for the obamas even take a second to consider the allergy factor (no log hair dog suggs pls) #
  • more Bush Katrina quotes p1: I’ve thought long and hard about Katrina — you know, could I have done something differently, like land… #
  • more Bush Katrina quotes p2: Air Force One either in New Orleans or Baton Rouge. The problem with that and — is that law enforcement… #
  • more Bush Katrina quotes p3: would have been pulled away from the mission. And then your questions, I suspect, would have been, how could… #
  • more Bush Katrina quotes p4: you possibly have flown Air Force One into Baton Rouge, and police officers that were needed to expedite… #
  • more Bush Katrina quotes p5: traffic out of New Orleans were taken off the task to look after you? #
  • more Bush Katrina quotes: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090112.html #
  • Schleifstein.net=> Final Bush Press Conference Katrina quotes http://tinyurl.com/8bf7he #
  • the wife says i should blog more, my mind agrees but has writer’s block, may start sketch-blogging like my buddy http://Troy-G.com/news/ #

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Just Drawing

Published on January 13, 2009 in Flickr. Closed



Just Drawing

Originally uploaded by schleifnet


Flickr art for fun. Mandy and the baby have me drawing again, just a little and mostly in places the girl can add too, but drawing again. I’ll post art pics as I can here and on flickr. If you want to see all the family’s pics join flickr (free to join and easy if you’re already a yahoo member) and make me a friend. Email me or mandy with your username and we’ll give you access to the other 90% of our photostream that is always friends and family only.