I was shooting some photos of the kids in the back yard today. Many were with the Galaxy Camera 2 for a special assignment, however I took this one with the NX30. Andrew was spinning a chair around and around. I love seeing his silly little face through the stitching of the chair.
In stitches is also how Andrew keeps us. He is hilarious. He is also a naughty little imp from time to time. His cuteness gets him into and out of a lot of trouble.
For a few weeks I’ve been posting tweets attempting to get the attention of Chris Hardwick and his Nerdist Podcast. I really would love to see Mike Schmidt as a guest on the show. Two years ago I went to Mike’s one man show, Success is not an Option, and had a great time. I also went to dinner with Mike the night before and that was a great time. Mike spent a few minutes during the show ripping me apart because I ate all of the Avocado from a salad that we were sharing at dinner the night before. Mike likes to order a bunch of things and share them with the table.
So, on June 1st I tend to wear a 40 Year Old Boy T-shirt and think of how else I can promote Mike and his podcast because I think he’d be a great guest on The Nerdist. Hopefully someone will see my posts, photos and tweets.
I woke up today to the sounds of the kids playing together. They were loud but they were very engaged with each other and having a great time. They were playing hide and seek under the desk in the kitchen and stacking up the paper towels to make a little fort under there. Of course they were easy to find since they were giggling like crazy.
After dinner Eva wanted to do a little Rock and Roll show for us so I took her keyboard downstairs and she made up a song, highly influenced by Frozen, and sang to us. It was quite beautiful. Then Andrew had his turn and he made me think of the Peanuts character, Schroeder. He’s even got the hair.
Quiet day at the house today. The tree is still standing and the kittens are leaving it alone for the most part. We are also running interference on Andrew’s attempts at the tree.
We’ve discovered that Andrew loves the stackable blocks that were Eva’s. We stack them and he destroys the stack. With Allison he smashes the stack and then covers his ears and shrieks with laughter. Last night I stacked about 15 blocks while he wasn’t looking. He turned around, his eyes went wide and he tore across the room to knock the stack to pieces. It is hilarious. I’ve got to get a good video of it.
I was watching Andrew while Allison and Eva went out for tea. I was cleaning up the kids toy area of the living room. Andrew was leaning on the pack and play and I poked his tummy. He giggled and then I kept poking and making noises to make him giggle. He loved it.
He was having a great time.
Today was rainy so it was a perfect sleeping day. Allison took Eva and Andrew out for the morning and it was quiet and I slept really well until noon. I got up right as they got home and sometimes that is a really nice time because Allison will bring Andrew up and change him and then check on me. Those times when I am awake she’ll lay Andrew on the bed and I’ll scootch over to give him kisses and make him laugh. He’s such a smiley laughing kid and when you get him going it is infectious. The laughter spreads and then Eva comes in and tries to make him laugh too and she ends up laughing. Allison and I look at each other in these moments and realize we are damn lucky.
Today was a day that I had been waiting to come for months. Today was the day I got to see Mike Schmidt perform his one man show, Success is Not an Option. But before I get to that I had a day to myself as Allison, Eva and Andrew went to the Stone Zoo with my sister-in-law and my niece and nephew. So I wrote up my blog post about dinner with Mike, caught up on some e-mail and took a nap because despite the show I still had to go in to work for part of the night. Continue reading Success in Boston, it wasn’t just an ‘Option’
Tonight we went to get Eva’s dance photos taken. Her second recital is this June and she is in two numbers, Tap and Jazz. She was so cute in her Yankee Doodle Dandy costume. I took a bunch of photos of her but she is so fidgety that only about half of them came out on the iPhone. She is just so excited about everything and I love that about her. It is just hard to photograph without the DSLR. I guess I got to start carrying that more often.
Andrew loves the chance to get up high above our heads. He smiles and laughs and giggles. It is a little dangerous for us because he still does some spitting up. The trick is to time it right so he doesn’t spit up all over our faces. It is worth chancing it to see his adorable smiles. I just love these cute little memories we are capturing. Continue reading Flight & A YesVideo Twitter Party
So, yesterday the house across the street had a tree service at 7:45am cutting down trees for a few hours. I was, luckily, able to sleep through that cacophony. I actually slept a pretty long time without issue. However, that was not the case today. Continue reading Four Wheeled Chainsaw Drone
