This instantly promoted them to always-first-choice-whether-they're-clean-or-not status.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Race Car Jeans
One of Evan's favorite pair of jeans has been wearing pretty thin at the knees, and last week both finally gave up the fight and ripped into full-on holes. Fortunately Grandma was here and eager for things to do, so she put some race car patches on them:
This instantly promoted them to always-first-choice-whether-they're-clean-or-not status.
This instantly promoted them to always-first-choice-whether-they're-clean-or-not status.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Backfilling
This is the first of what will hopefully be many entries about historical posts we've backfilled recently. Since a little more than a week ago we've added the following old posts:
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Friday, September 11, 2009
We're Back
All right, our blog has been dark for almost a year now... sorry about that. I've been pretty busy at work, we've been very busy with Evan, all the normal excuses. Anyway, we did a bunch of organizing of kid-related things last weekend in preparation for the new baby (in case you didn't know, Steph is due to deliver our second son in 3 weeks), and the healthy dose of "here we go again" left us newly-committed to maintaining this blog better going forward. To help in this regard, Steph is going to be writing posts as well this time around.
That's fine and good from here on out, you say, but what about what's happened over the last 10 months? We've got a plan for that. We'll fill in historical posts as we can get to them. Obviously, that in and of itself isn't much of a plan. Here's the plan part. I date our posts by when the events being described occurred, so entries appear on the blog in the order things happened, not necessarily in the order we write about them. This means that historical posts won't show up at the top of the blog, and if they're far enough back in time you might have to do some serious digging to find them. To mitigate this issue, once a week (probably on Saturday, but I won't make any promises) I'll add a post dated when it's published listing the historical posts we've written that week for those who just check in periodically.
An even better way for you to address this problem (if you even feel it is a problem that needs to be addressed) is to subscribe to updates yourself, either through a reader application (like Google Reader, for instance) or email using the sections on the sidebar to the right. Here's the previous post I wrote about subscribing to updates for some background info, in case you're interested. Note that subscriptions are handled through FeedBurner now, not RssFwd, so the concerns I raised about the up-and-up-ness of RssFwd no longer apply.
In the meantime, I added posts for each month we missed, starting with December '08, with a selection of photos for that month. There will eventually be real posts giving context and humorous anecdotes for all those photos and then some, but the pictures themselves should be better than nothing. Enjoy!
That's fine and good from here on out, you say, but what about what's happened over the last 10 months? We've got a plan for that. We'll fill in historical posts as we can get to them. Obviously, that in and of itself isn't much of a plan. Here's the plan part. I date our posts by when the events being described occurred, so entries appear on the blog in the order things happened, not necessarily in the order we write about them. This means that historical posts won't show up at the top of the blog, and if they're far enough back in time you might have to do some serious digging to find them. To mitigate this issue, once a week (probably on Saturday, but I won't make any promises) I'll add a post dated when it's published listing the historical posts we've written that week for those who just check in periodically.
An even better way for you to address this problem (if you even feel it is a problem that needs to be addressed) is to subscribe to updates yourself, either through a reader application (like Google Reader, for instance) or email using the sections on the sidebar to the right. Here's the previous post I wrote about subscribing to updates for some background info, in case you're interested. Note that subscriptions are handled through FeedBurner now, not RssFwd, so the concerns I raised about the up-and-up-ness of RssFwd no longer apply.
In the meantime, I added posts for each month we missed, starting with December '08, with a selection of photos for that month. There will eventually be real posts giving context and humorous anecdotes for all those photos and then some, but the pictures themselves should be better than nothing. Enjoy!
September '09
Some pictures from September (so far)...
Covered in stickers:
Lounging around and showing off his Cookie Monster socks (which we finally talked him into wearing after months of admiring them in the drawer):
Covered in stickers:
Lounging around and showing off his Cookie Monster socks (which we finally talked him into wearing after months of admiring them in the drawer):
August '09
Some pictures from August...
Drawing with Aunt Megan in her apartment:
With Dad on the train at Oak Meadow Park:
Crazy morning hair:
Celebrating his new sheets and comforter:
Drawing with Aunt Megan in her apartment:
With Dad on the train at Oak Meadow Park:
Crazy morning hair:
Celebrating his new sheets and comforter:
July '09
Some photos from July...
With cousins Delaney, Riley and Paige on the 4th of July:
At Newport Beach on the 4th:
Taking a break during the 4th of July festivities:
Perched atop the neighbor's antique fire truck (yes, the neighbor's fire truck):
Wearing goggles, just because:
Trying out his new big boy bed (in the daytime):
Proud of his bandaids:
Babysitting Clayton:
With cousins Delaney, Riley and Paige on the 4th of July:
At Newport Beach on the 4th:
Taking a break during the 4th of July festivities:
Perched atop the neighbor's antique fire truck (yes, the neighbor's fire truck):
Wearing goggles, just because:
Trying out his new big boy bed (in the daytime):
Proud of his bandaids:
Babysitting Clayton:
June '09
Some pictures from June (Evan turned 2 and we took a trip back east, so there are a lot of them)...
He's always holding a vehicle, even when eating (we've since curtailed that):
Posing for a new family portrait:
Eating watermelon at the beach during his birthday outing:
Blowing bubbles at the beach during his birthday outing:
Finger painting while holding his new blue car (there is nothing more sublime in Evan's opinion than a blue car):
His new Cookie Monster:
Playing with his new stacking robots in Boston:
Jumping the gun digging into his chef-prepared train birthday cake:
With Auntie Kimmie at the Father's Day Red Sox game:
With Mom and Dad down next to the field after the game:
Making friends with a penguin (statue) at the Aquarium of New England:
With Steph and my Dad at the Bronx Zoo:
Showing off his new Thomas the Train sunglasses:
He's always holding a vehicle, even when eating (we've since curtailed that):
Posing for a new family portrait:
Eating watermelon at the beach during his birthday outing:
Blowing bubbles at the beach during his birthday outing:
Finger painting while holding his new blue car (there is nothing more sublime in Evan's opinion than a blue car):
His new Cookie Monster:
Playing with his new stacking robots in Boston:
Jumping the gun digging into his chef-prepared train birthday cake:
With Auntie Kimmie at the Father's Day Red Sox game:
With Mom and Dad down next to the field after the game:
Making friends with a penguin (statue) at the Aquarium of New England:
With Steph and my Dad at the Bronx Zoo:
Showing off his new Thomas the Train sunglasses:
May '09
Some photos from May...
Playing with bubbles in the bath:
With Mom on the fire engine at Oak Meadow Park:
Eating berries with Mom on a hot day:
With Auntie Megan:
Playing with bubbles in the bath:
With Mom on the fire engine at Oak Meadow Park:
Eating berries with Mom on a hot day:
With Auntie Megan:
April '09
Some pictures from April...
Standing in a box with his kitty:
Drinking water from a big-boy cup:
Sitting on a stool at the kitchen counter:
Walking Peekay with Mom over at the percolation ponds:
Collecting eggs with his new bunny on Easter:
Helping to wash Mom's car:
At an art opening in the city:
Standing on a ladder (which he climbed up himself) while Dad does some yard work:
Standing in a box with his kitty:
Drinking water from a big-boy cup:
Sitting on a stool at the kitchen counter:
Walking Peekay with Mom over at the percolation ponds:
Collecting eggs with his new bunny on Easter:
Helping to wash Mom's car:
At an art opening in the city:
Standing on a ladder (which he climbed up himself) while Dad does some yard work:
March '09
Some pictures from March:
Playing with the push-dog (huh?) at 1-2-3 Grow at the Y:
Hanging out with Grandma:
Sitting at the kitchen table for a snack:
Playing LEGOs with Dad (at the kitchen table!):
Eating pancakes (again, at the kitchen table! although this time with high-chair assist):
Playing with the push-dog (huh?) at 1-2-3 Grow at the Y:
Hanging out with Grandma:
Sitting at the kitchen table for a snack:
Playing LEGOs with Dad (at the kitchen table!):
Eating pancakes (again, at the kitchen table! although this time with high-chair assist):
February '09
Some pictures from February:
Sitting on his new rocking horse from our neighbors:
Swimming at the Y:
Sitting on his new rocking horse from our neighbors:
Swimming at the Y:
January '09
Some pictures from January...
At cousin Delaney's soccer game just after New Year's Day:
Taking a bath with cousin Paige:
Playing with trains at home:
Experimenting with Play-Doh:
Hanging out with Gigi Bear and Dogga:
At cousin Delaney's soccer game just after New Year's Day:
Taking a bath with cousin Paige:
Playing with trains at home:
Experimenting with Play-Doh:
Hanging out with Gigi Bear and Dogga:
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