Daddy and Annabel have the same toes. See the big toe – yup – it’s the same for both of them. Ditto on the fingers, Annabel has her daddy’s fingers (and she has daddy wrapped around her little fingers – but that’s another story). What is cool is when we saw her on the ultrasound pictures we could already see that she had her daddy’s fingers and toes (and her mama’s nose).If you are wondering – those tootsie toes are in Surfside Texas. It is gorgeous down here. Sand and ocean and my brother’s house on the beach and it gets so nice and cool here in the evenings. If you are interested in vacating your normal abode and making for a vacation like ours then check out, txbeachhouse.com and wish us fun in the shady sun for the rest of our vacation.
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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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Figured you guys might want some more content over here, so here’s a nice leafy texture from the ground in Lafreniere Park (pre-k). I was wondering, how cool would this look blown up and printed on canvas and hung up in the lobby of a huge office building. Like a big strange modern art piece…
Anyway, baby’s good, baby mama’s good, house is ok… talk to ya soon.
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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.
