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Awwwww.
Yup Annabel is now pulling herself to a standing position on everything and is confident enough in her abilities to look at you while standing. Heck she grabs onto the couch, pulls up and turns around while holding on to reach out for you or the cats or a toy or whatever. The house is mostly baby-proofed, but we could do better. Luckily Mandy is way more on the ball than I am and takes care of all the little things (and the big ones too) that make life wonderful.
Side note: tomorrow is our fourth anniversary!!
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So, Sunday was a double whammy. My first father’s day and my 30th birthday. We had a laid back day mostly due to the double blowout on Saturday (barbecue party at the house followed by really really latenight quartering by mike, troy and david). The cake above is pure cookie with customer spinkles for writing. And it’s all gone now (so good, cookies).
Anyway, we had a lot of fun and ended the day seeing my dad for father’s day and getting choclate cake courtesy of my mom. Of course the grand parents loved seeing the baby.
Unfortunately today started with a starting to get sick mama and an almost starting to get sick baby. cross your fingers that I don’t join them by the end of the week.
Check out the flickr feed for more pics as Mandy posts them. Make us a contact to see all the friends and family only ones.
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So I had to wear a tie to work Thursday last week and when I got home, of course I wasn’t allowed to remove it. Why? Because Annabel decided to start playing with the silkiness and looking a the blue green print.
Speak of ties, this Sunday is a double tie whammy (or at least is will be in a few years). Not only is it my first father’s day ever (woo-hoo), but I enter my third decade. 30 years is a long time to be around, here’s to a few more.
If the weather allows I’ll be partying it up in the Quarter Saturday night on my last night of my twenties (after barbecuing in the backyard with friends and kids).
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Update from a proud daddy and mama: Just wanted all of you to know, Annabel is scootching all over the place. Everyday we giggle as she zip zips around the floor with her inch worm style of almost crawling. Recently, Annabel started singing and playing piano as well…let me explain. She started saying ‘bah bah’ a month ago and then discovered the joy of having her tongue in the air. This led to a tongue out bah or LA and now we enjoy the vocal stylings of the best la-la-er in the world. As to the piano, well Mandy brought out my really old electric keyboard (I think its from junior high, 1992ish) and Annabel has been banging away on the keys ever since. It started as eerie music with a baby on top of the low end of the keys and then migrated to rumbas and more as she found the demo and auto-accompaniment buttons. Can’t wait to see her recording contract in the near future.More to come…
Today it became official. With the publishing of my first post on DownloadSquad.com I have now returned to pro-blogging. As you may remember I started blogging about Flash way back in early 2005 on FlashInsider.com as part of the Weblogs, Inc Network. The network got bought by AOL that fall and FlashInsider got retired soon after (we only have a few bloggers and two of us were in NOLA for Katrina, so I guess you could say the site was another victim of the storm). A while later, after returning to New Orleans, I started blogging for BloggingNewOrleans.com (also on Weblogs, Inc). Soon I was promoted to lead blogger there and wrote often about the state of the city. Unfortunately the site was retired around the same time the baby was born and I decided to take some time off of blogging (I got burnt out writing about NOLA and didn’t have time). Last month of so I emailed DLS and asked if they were hiring since I thought they could use a Flash blogger and they immediately brought me aboard. And so today I have posted for the first time. Read my review of the science fiction short story podcast Escape Pod at Download Squad.
The place where I graduated from high school and college and whose locker room I kept clean will it was used by visiting teams playing the Z’s and I zipped around in a golf cart with Z’s equipment while I was a batboy is reopening tonight. For the first time since the storm the New Orleans Lakefront Arena at University of New Orleans is going to open its doors and have an event. Sure it’s high school music on ice, but its a start.
The concerts are sure to get better. All kinds of artists played there over the years and I ran into a few of them while a batboy for the Z’s in high school. I met Soundgarden once in the hallway while working a game (they were on their way to the stage before a show) and drove Meatloaf and a clubhouse manager and his manager on a golfcart to see a game once (while he was waiting to go on stage at the arena).
Anyway, welcome back arena, we missed you and thank you for being the latest sign of the recovery of the crescent city.
