Late Feb 2007 Update: Check Our Flickr Site

Hi, everyone! I'm not very good at keeping this blog updated these days, but I am better at posting photos of our family on our Flickr site. If you haven't been there before or if you haven't been there in a while, go there.

All is well with our family. Ian is a busy 3-year-old likes to draw, can write his name, is taking gymnastics, likes to wrestle around with his father, and will be attending preschool in the fall. Noah is 18 months and has the best balance of anyone in the family. He is a daredevil and is starting to express himself a little more vocally. Tatum is also 18 months. She can say her ABC's up through 'G' (but she skips 'C' most of the time). She has a vocabulary of a couple of hundred words and can identify a plethora of body parts including eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and (as of today) the back.

oct - early dec 2006 photos

There are more photos on my Flickr page. These include Halloween, football, a family carnival, and the kids playing around the house.

long time, no post

Luckily, there's lots of new pictures on my Flickr account. The twins are 1 year old. Ian is 3 years old. All of them can walk. Happy happy joy joy! :-)

mid-summer update

We made it through another battery of weddings. Two weekends ago was Curt's wedding in New York. This last weekend was my sister Betsy's wedding. Ian was the ringbearer in both. For Betsy's wedding, Ian somehow injured his knee the morning of the wedding and ended up limping down the aisle at the start of the service. I've posted photos from Curt's wedding and Betsy's wedding on Flickr.

There are a bunch of other photos that I've recently uploaded to my Flickr account (look at the tag 20060716). There are photos from Ian at Orange City's ArtFest (where he made popsicle-stick butterflies and paper-plate fish) as well as lots of general summertime playing photos.

This week, Lisa, Kylynn, and I (along with help from our neighbors Don and Joyce) assembled a wooden playset for the kids from Creative Playthings. Having assembled things that are "pre-cut" and "pre-drilled" in the past, I had very low expectations, but I was pleasantly surprised at the accuracy of the directions and the quality of the hardware and lumber. We only had a few minor problems (one board was too long and we had a few pieces of missing hardware). A lot of forethought went into this product; I think we'll be very pleased. Sometime this next week we need to finish installing the last swing and the rock-climbing wall and then we'll be ready to landscape the area. Yes, I know that sounds backwards, but that's how you do things sometimes with three kids under three years of age. :-) Here's a photo of the playset right now.

july update

Here are photos of Ian in a tux, more photos from our nephew Curt's wedding, and photos of our water babies.

june update

An update has been long overdue. Click here for the latest photos.

In the past two weeks, Noah has started crawling, crawling up stairs, standing up, and "cruising" around tables and couches (i.e. using one or two hands for support while walking).

Tatum has eight teeth now to Noah's two. She sometimes attempts crawling–I call her attempt a "one-armed man crawl stroke"–but she seems content to just sit.

Ian is the ever-present whirling dervish. He is constantly in motion while riding his new tricycle, kicking a soccer ball, or swimming at our in-ground pool. His vocabulary continues to amaze me. Ian also saw his first theater movie last weekend: Pixar's Cars. He was adorable watching the movie with his kid's pack resting on his lap. He had to sit on the front of the theater seat so it wouldn't fold him up due to his lack of weight.

may update

Noah and Tatum are saying their first words (mama, dadda, baba, yaya, etc.). They are sitting up and sometimes they sleep through the night.

Ian is a chatterbox who loves trains, going to the library and the park, reciting the alphabet, and counting in both English and Spanish (he's better at counting in Spanish, oddly enough).

Enjoy the photos.

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