Not Budka

We're told that this is not our friend Ben Budka snagging a foul ball at tonight's Mariners-Yankee game, a near no-hitter by the Mariners' Brandon Morrow in his first major league start. Ms won 3-1.



Seems pretty hard to believe it's not him since:
1) looks a lot like him
2) he & Kris were sitting "second row somewhere between 1st base and Ichiro" according to an email Kris sent me today

I smell a cover-up. The only question is: Why?

IPod Project Update: Finishing up

I am now on song 16900 of 16902 (!). It's "2000 Light Years From Home" by the Stones, with only "2000 Miles" by Pretenders and "2112" by Rush left, (the ipod sorts alphabetically by putting numbers at the end)

yet I'm almost sad about it. what should I do next? Start over? I do have LOTS of stuff on there that I didn't have when I started this project in January '06 with my long gone 30gig ipod.

I'll have to think about that

oops - Stones song is done. Pretenders now--only one more to go!

UPDATE: Friday morning: I created a playlist of all the songs that have never been played since I got the 80g ipod and it's 7890 tracks. Which is a lot. It's mainly songs that come alphabetically prior to wherever I happened to be on my A-Z playlist, plus all tracks that come before I -- that's what I was up to on the old one when it died 2 yrs ago.

So you won't hear me mention it again for a while--this is at least a years worth, if I average 20 songs a day. And I bet no one's interested anyway so I'll shut up about it now

Sleepy girl

Enjoying a 2.5 hour nap at daycare today. Hopefully she'll wake up in
time for lunch with daddy. Mommy had to go back to work already.

UPDATE: baby girl woke up at 12:55, around 10 minutes after this photo was taken. Here's a recap of her very busy next 30 mins

wake up
wet diaper changed
crusty nose de-crusted
repeatedly try to steal lucy's binky while dad mixes up lunch
eat jar of turkey dinner & 3 scoops of rice cereal
squirt saline up nose
nose syphoned out
sit down on floor
poop
new poop-free diaper installed
lay back down on floor
daddy goes back to work

Still not crawling...yet

Peekaboo

Look Who's Standing!

I took these 2 pics today at lunchtime. The other baby in the back is Kaspar. He's been out for a while, more than a week, and just got back today. The day care ladies said that when Iris saw him she rolled across the floor (that's how she gets around--she's not crawling quite yet) to go over and say hi to him.

Fred update

Apparently I've been lax on news about our older child, so here's a Fred update. He finished his hydro-therapy last Saturday, with session #8. It definitely helped him a lot--he's walking much better than he was a few months ago, though he still has a little hitch in his step from his rear right leg. He also still doesn't put much weight on his front right leg, but we already knew about his arthritis in his elbow there, so that part's not too much of a surprise.

He's still not skipping any meals so we figure he's feeling all right, plus he's made it up the stairs to bother us for his breakfast quite a few times, so we're hoping he'll be around for a few more birthdays, at least.

Here's another video of him in the tank:

9 Month Check Up

Iris had her 9 month check up on Friday. Lucky for her there are no shots required at 9 months. Her doctor says she's developing well, even though she's on the smaller end of the scale for height and weight.

Here are her stats from birth, 2, 4, 6 and 9 months:

9 months
Length 26.5" (between 10th-25th percentile)
Weight 16 lbs, 15.5 ozs. (10-25th)
Cranium 47.5 cm (95th+)

Our baby girl is still among the league leaders in cranium size.

6 months
Length 24.75" (between 10th-25th percentile)
Weight 14 lbs, 12.5 ozs. (25th-50th)
Cranium 45.25 cm (95th+)

4 months
Length 23.75" (between 25th-50th percentile)
Weight 12 lbs, 5.5 ozs. (25th)
Cranium 42.75cm (90-95th)

2 months
Length 22.25" (50th percentile)
Weight 10 lbs, 8 ozs. (25th-50th)

Birth
Length 19.5" (50th percentile)
Weight 6 lbs, 15.4 ozs. (25th)


Here's a pic from the day we brought her home from the hospital & a recent one, so you can see how much our girl has grown

Pretty in Pink

Isn't she?Our friends Cornelia Arlene and Dan gave Iris a couple bags of clothes last weekend and this very pink J-Lo inspired number was one of the outfits that Iris scored. If you like this one, just wait til we break out the Baby Phat outfit.

Sent from my free range iPhone

Happy 0.75 years Iris!

Here she is hanging out with Minnie Mouse at day care this morning

Look who's 9 months old today

photo posted from my iPhone

20 baby products great for traumatizing infants

Remember Cracked magazine when you were young? Check out their list of must-have baby products. I'm eyeing #19; what am I supposed to do with a baby when I have to go?

What are these things are called again? chopsticks?

Tall iced Americano with room and extra ice, please

photo posted from my iPhone

Chilling on the deck

Enjoying the beautiful Seattle weather.

Test #2

Another view from Costco

Testing blog entry

TGIF

It's 8am and only 68 degrees, but supposed to hit 90 later today. Do I look bothered?

photo posted from my iPhone

Cool new ride

Iris rode in a shopping cart like a big girl for the first time yesterday at Costco


photo posted from my iPhone

Posting on the go

We're hoping to post more frequently now we can do it from the
iPhone.