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Guess Who’s Coming Home Today?

ray — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:33:59 +0000

Someone have a new best friend soon?

White Bear Lake, Part Two

ray — Mon, 10 May 2010 02:54:09 +0000

I’ve added some more pictures to Flickr. These are old family photos of mine (Ray’s) from the Eighties. Oh yeah. Enjoy.

Busy Bee

kandace — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:43:42 +0000

A couple weekends ago, Zoë’s school had a garden party. They’ve put up a few pictures of the day. Zoë seemed to really enjoy having us all spend time at her school.

This past weekend, we had a swim class and took a trip to the zoo (lots of zoo pics on Flickr). Zoë was mesmerized by the birdies and goats.

The Zocabulary

ray — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:49:41 +0000

Zoë seems to be picking up words more and more quickly all the time. Here’s what we’ve heard from her so far… and what we think they mean, if it’s not already clear!

Babu. Ball or bubble
Baba. Bottle, or Mommy
Mama
Dada. Daddy
Yay. Happy
La la la la la. Part of song
Ya ya. Grandma, roughly
Bye bye.
Hi!
Dis. This
Dat. That, also cat
Duck.
Doze. Nose
Uh-oh!
Nigh-nigh. Goodnight
Num num. Yum
Baby.
Puppy.

Notably absent: please, thank you, sir.

Saturdays Rock

kandace — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:59:48 +0000

Zoë is speeding up with her mad linguistic skills. She’s currently obsessed with saying bye-bye (ba-bayeeeeee) which shouldn’t be confused with another favorite, ba-ba. She’s also learned her first body part, nose, or in Zoë speak, doooose. This is always accompanied by a point at your nose (careful lest that finger end up straight up your nostril – she gets a tiny baby thrill out of that).

Saturdays are big days around here. No work or school, so we get to hang out family style and enjoy lovely Portland. We spent this morning at the park (check out the slide video here) and then this afternoon swimming. Zoë’s swimming teacher said that she’s such a good swimmer that “she’s going to go a long way.” Future Olympian, anyone! Here we are working on our back floats.

Some Very Old Pictures

ray — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:07:05 +0000

Late last year, my mom loaned me a bunch of her old pictures to scan in. I’ll be posting them here as time goes by, they’re going onto Flickr as we speak. This is the first batch – they are all from long before I was born. I mean, there are pictures of my grandmother in here from when she was a little girl!

Happy New Year

kandace — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:52:52 +0000

While we came home early from a delightful dinner with friends, we hear Grandma was whooping it up until the wee hours in Vegas (I just love this picture). Happy to Near to you all!

Zoo Lights

ray — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:59:00 +0000

We went to the Zoo tonight, to see the lights. If you haven’t seen the pictures on Facebook, you can see them here.

Kandace and Zoë at the Zoo Lights 2009

Thanksgiving, on Video!

ray — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:20:25 +0000

Short and sweet!

Picture of Four Generations

ray — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:50:41 +0000

On Thanksgiving Day, we were able to take a picture of Zoë with her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother!

Unfortunately, there were several other people with cameras, so in none of my pictures is everyone looking at my camera! Oops!