Saturday, June 13, 2009

More Molly + Baby 2

Hey all, just throwing up some new pics and videos. Although you're going to be seeing her in person soon enough. Since you'll be seeing her so soon I figured that I'd throw in a quick Molly => English translation guide.

"All Done" => Sadly this doesn't actually mean that she is done with her food. If she says this she should be asked if she is actually "all done" or if she want "mo" (more). If she says "all done" a second time then meal time is over

"mo" => More

"jus" (juice) => All different fluids. E.g. "mo jus" => More milk needed "ches" (cheese) => All different edible solids

"Bye bye" => Important to know that this not only means "bye bye, have fun" but it also means "you go bye bye and leave me alone so that I can crawl into the fireplace"

"Na na nah naaaahhh" => Means "no way jose" pretty much. For example if you are letting her push the stroller at the mall for fun, and you try to touch to stroller to keep her from steering it into a wall you might get a very offended "na na nah naaaahh" until you take your hand off and let her drive

"da" => Means "yes." Also means that my daughter is an cold war era Bond villian apparently.

"e ah e ah e ah" => "E I E I O" from Old McDonald had a farm. The only song lyrics that she knows now, although I am working on the fast bits from "It's the end of the world as we know it"

"Ahhh oohhhh" => Used for both accidental (falling down while trying to run to fast) and intentional (dumping out a box of goldfish on the floor) incidents

"puf" (ruff) => The noise a doggie makes (used to apply to all four legged creatures, but is now getting more specific

"dank" => Our other animal noise. It's a combo of "quack" and "duck" and is used for most birds






Summer Time


Monday, June 8, 2009

Beatles: Rock Band intro

So I've been geeking out on E3 the last week (Uncharted 2 whoo!!!). But the neatest thing I saw that the non-gamer could appreciate would be the intro video for The Beatles: Rock Band. Gotta figure out who did the animation for this guy, very nifty looking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xaUIYs8e0k

Monday, June 1, 2009

Evangeline goes outside...

Pictures of Evangeline in our yard, doing various baby type things like splashing in pools and, oh yeah, helping tear down trees!

trees and magic and pools, oh my....

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

more garden pics, a funny vid

Here's some more pics of the garden. The veggies are all planted, the side bed is mostly coming up roses, as it were (which is not literally), and we're finally done with the north side bed (see all the landscape timbers we put in!). We just need to finish mulching.
The only tree we don't have a photo of yet is the magnolia in the front.
And, a few 8-month photos of Evangeline.

http://picasaweb.google.com/aloradanen/MoreGardensNotAsManyBabies#


Here's a funny video, where Evangeline shows what she really thinks of all our friends. Oh yeah, and gets laughed at.

Hiking season is here

Hey all. Nice weather is finally arriving here in Seattle so when we are not throwing up (Liz) or working weekend hours (Ian) we're doing our best to get out and enjoy it. Note that the few nicer pics were taken with Tim's fancy pants new camera. 's lots of fun with the nice weather here but we're really looking forward to being home in about a month.

MothersDay

Friday, May 15, 2009

babies and gardens

Here's some photos and a few videos from the last monthish.

gardens, babies in gardens



Going in Reverse


The Crazy Packers Dance


Scary Giggles


Cow PJs

Monday, May 4, 2009

David's full-court press on Goliath

I've like reading Malcolm Gladwell even when he's not writing about sports, so it's a godsend when he does (same thing with Chuck Klosterman). Here's a really good article that I just read about underdogs breaking out of convention to beat more talented opponents...'s a really good read even for the non-sports fan.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all