We're Back!

Hey all! Haven't been updating much as the last month has been pretty crazy for Liz and I. We had Mom visit and paint cabinets, we threw a big Easter party for my co-workers, we had an old college friend visit (Mary Ann), we got another round of sickness and we just got back from a two day visit to see Lindsay in Boise. Luckily Molly was a real sport for the 8 hour drive (one way) but we're still pretty tired. On the plus side with the long car rides I finally got to catch up on some reading (read A City of Thieves, A Mote in God's Eye and I'm almost finished with Ha'penny). Here is a dump of most of our photos from this last month.

Boise++

old videos (with sound this time) and new

Here's a few videos, some you've seen but now new-and-improved, with sound!

da da...



baby crab cakes...



catch, or, what's on your head?

7-month photos

Here are some 7-month photos of our little sitter! I'm trying to figure out how to edit videos and not lose the audio - I hadn't realized they came through with no sound! I will be repost the videos if I can get something figured out...

Spring!

Vogue!

Baby turned model...with some exercise and a quick, healthy snack of mum-mums on the way (a model's gotta look good!)

Vogue

Cattails

further evidence that I wake up far too early

Moliere

I recommend this movie. We didn't know anything about Moliere, and just rented the movie to see what 17th century France looked like, but we saw much more than that. The Moliere buff(s) among you (only you know who you are) already know that Moliere wrote comic plays that reveal our nature (but I repeat myself), and apparently this movie about his life was made in the style of his plays. Fun and profound, the movie makes me want to read one of his plays, in English translation, of course. Added bonus -- the actors' faces are so expressive that you could probably catch the movie's gist even without the English subtitles.

While the cat's away . . .

. . . the mouse built this herb bench to keep herbs out of rabbit's reach. Can rabbits jump two feet high? The bench is made of white oak which is supposed to resist rotting. It will be painted for extra protection as soon as the cat (in the hat?) gets back.

p.s. the SpongeBob SquarePants motif was entirely subliminal.