Overcompensating
by John at 6/24/2010 10:21:00 PM
Goose the Blog 2.0
"Oh, ha! Sarcasm: The last refuge of sons of bitches!"
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2/11/2010
snow photos
by John at 2/11/2010 10:04:00 AM
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11/27/2009
fall photo dump
by John at 11/27/2009 12:04:00 PM
147 (I think) photos from this fall:
Soccer 2009
Baltimore Zoo
Halloween 2009
Disney World 2009
Disney Cruise 2009
Soccer 2009
Baltimore Zoo
Halloween 2009
Disney World 2009
Disney Cruise 2009
9/07/2009
some new photos
by John at 9/07/2009 09:06:00 AM
Hundreds of new photos since the last photo update.
Includes:
Day Out with Thomas
Elias' Birthday
Brandywine Park and Zoo
Graham's Birthday
Beach Trip
North Carolina Trip
Includes:
Day Out with Thomas
Elias' Birthday
Brandywine Park and Zoo
Graham's Birthday
Beach Trip
North Carolina Trip
5/02/2009
5/01/2009
12/02/2008
10/30/2008
9/17/2008
Chadds Ford Days
by John at 9/17/2008 07:43:00 PM
Here are a few pictures from Chadds Ford Days (and other stuff, like Elias' first day of school). Also, this video of Elias rockin' out to some folk music.
8/06/2008
Washington and other places
by John at 8/06/2008 10:16:00 PM
We got back from our super-fun-packed trip to Washington a couple of days ago, and I just uploaded a bunch of pictures from there and elsewhere.
It was great to see Bill, Amy, and Guillermo. (Guillermo is fantastic. He's everywhere you wanna be!) It was also great to see Steve, Cayla, and all the Samms family at the wedding. I'd say more but it's taken more than two hours to get all those photos up and tagged, and now I just want to shower and go to bed.
Note to wanderers: Spokane is the little-known Paris of eastern Washington state. You must visit!
It was great to see Bill, Amy, and Guillermo. (Guillermo is fantastic. He's everywhere you wanna be!) It was also great to see Steve, Cayla, and all the Samms family at the wedding. I'd say more but it's taken more than two hours to get all those photos up and tagged, and now I just want to shower and go to bed.
Note to wanderers: Spokane is the little-known Paris of eastern Washington state. You must visit!
6/24/2008
happy birthday, Elias!
by John at 6/24/2008 09:13:00 PM
Elias celebrated his third birthday today. He had a cool train cake made by Wendy and lots of excellent presents from his family.
Click through for more birthday photos, or check out the photostream for many more pictures from Longwood Gardens, Brandywine Park, and even our backyard, where you will see a baby snapping turtle.
Click through for more birthday photos, or check out the photostream for many more pictures from Longwood Gardens, Brandywine Park, and even our backyard, where you will see a baby snapping turtle.
5/16/2008
Disney cruise
by John at 5/16/2008 08:00:00 PM
We're back from our Disney cruise on the Wonder, a fine and sound vessel. The photos are up.
All in all, we had a lot of fun. We already signed up for our next one, probably in May, 2010.
All in all, we had a lot of fun. We already signed up for our next one, probably in May, 2010.
4/14/2008
4/08/2008
to engineer is human
by John at 4/08/2008 07:19:00 PM
This is interesting.
On my way to relax and watch a little TV while the boys played quietly, I saw Elias building a couple of towers out of his bricks and and then attaching the train tracks to the top.
A little while later, he came and asked me for help. I knew just what he wanted to do as he explained to me his plan for building an elevated railway, and I showed him how to put together all the pylons and connect the tracks in a circle. I ended up doing most of the work, actually, because he seemed to have a problem with making all the pylons the same height.
After trying out the train he'd built earlier (you can see the little "Daddies" - that's what he calls them - riding on the train cars), he told me he wanted to make a tunnel for it to go through, so I built that too and put it just where he wanted it.
Wendy thought it looked like the Disney World monorail, which it sort of does.
We were lucky with this in that Graham didn't destroy it right away. Graham always wants to play with whatever Elias is playing with, especially blocks or trains. He loves to stand up next to the train table and throw train cars around and rip up track like Godzilla, or push down and smash whatever Elias builds with his blocks. Elias starts out tolerating this, but get frustrated with Graham quickly: "Get this baby away from me!" if we are lucky, or a push followed by a screaming baby if we are not.
(Click through for more photos)
3/14/2008
2/22/2008
sledding
by John at 2/22/2008 02:26:00 PM
It snowed a few inches last night, and because the news promised freezing rain and ice in the afternoon, I decided to take the day off.
Elias was anxious to try out his new tube-sled, so I took a break from shoveling the driveway and we went for a spin in the backyard.
As the video starts, he had just fallen off the first time and gotten back on to try again.
After he fell off the second time and I had cleaned the snow off his face, I asked him if he had fun (you can't hear this on the video). He said no. I corrected myself and asked him if he had fun sledding. His answer was still no!
He was willing to get back on for another short ride, anyway.
Elias was anxious to try out his new tube-sled, so I took a break from shoveling the driveway and we went for a spin in the backyard.
As the video starts, he had just fallen off the first time and gotten back on to try again.
After he fell off the second time and I had cleaned the snow off his face, I asked him if he had fun (you can't hear this on the video). He said no. I corrected myself and asked him if he had fun sledding. His answer was still no!
He was willing to get back on for another short ride, anyway.
2/20/2008
you say foe-tay-toe, and I say foe-tah-toe
by John at 2/20/2008 08:38:00 PM
More pictures of the kids. This one is kind of interesting: I left Elias alone in the tub (bad Daddy!). He'd been curious about the bar of soap for a few nights, and was always trying to play with it. I didn't want him to, because I was afraid he'd get some in his eyes and become even more scared of getting his face wet than he already is. So as I left the bathroom, I told him not to touch it.
When I got back, the bath water was cloudy white and there was a semicircular notch taken out of one side of the soap bar, which was sitting in the soap dish. I looked at it, and then looked at him and asked, "Did the soap taste good?"
He answered quietly, "No."
Then I wondered what happened to the missing piece of soap. "Elias, did you eat the soap?"
"No."
"Then where is the rest of it?" I asked.
"I don't know."
I fished around in the tub for a minute, and was relieved to find the missing bit, which he had sensibly spat out.
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Also in this set, some photos of Graham. Wendy will probably be appalled because she didn't get a chance to edit them, but I thought he showed some amusing expressions, despite the snot bubbles and drool.
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