News, News, News.......

Well for those who have not heard yet M and I are expecting our second child.  If all goes alright the baby will be due in November.  We've known for a few weeks now but just wanted to make sure things are proceeding along just fine.  The other day M was looking through one of the millions of baby books we have and showed me the actual size of the baby.  At eight weeks which where we're at now it's about the size of a nickel.  From last week it was the size of a grain of rice.  Next week M goes in for her first doctors appointment to make sure things are progressing well.  We'll keep you updated as the news comes.

On music news Adrian has a new favorite song.  Kanye West's song "Stronger"  It's a remake of Daft Punks' song Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.  Adrian loves this song, so much he starts to bob his head to the beat.   He knows who Daft punk is Gorillaz, and the group called Bowling For Soup.  As I have been typing this paragraph Adrian has been reading along out loud.   For the Gorillaz on of his favorite songs from them is "Dirty Harry".  From the movie Cars he quite enjoys Rascal Flats version of "Life is a Highway"  It's pretty cool to find out which songs he enjoys listening to.  His tastes rang from Vivaldi to the Gorillaz, to the Beatles, to Kanye West.  The eclectic listener he has become.

Photography 101

In the top picture Adrian is explaining to me how I need to take the picture and how to orientate the camera. The bottom picture Adrian is not only pleased I listened to him, but is hamming it up for the camera. Just look at that smile.

Post Date

The pictures from above are from my parents visit back in January. I feel extremely silly for not have put these up any sooner, but that's me mister forgetful. We had a blast when they where out here and I can't wait to see them agian.

An Ill Closing and just a bit more.....

To begin, M had gotten sick again back towards the end of February. She had gotten the flu in December but this was much worse. Long story short, she was sick for about two weeks, and then when she was starting to feel somewhat better she got a double ear infection. She's just now coming to the end of taking antibiotics for the ear infections. She had coughing, congestion, 100 degree plus temperatures, upset stomach, the works. Luckily Adrian and my self didn't catch what she had, but we both did have a mild cold for a couple of days. I'm just glad that's over because it was not fun at all.

On other news M and I decided to retire our business for the time being until we saw fit. It just wasn't worth our time to try to keep up with it. Especially when it came time for customers to stop by to drop off their photos, having to clean up and vacuum before they came over. It was fun to restore their photos but now it's one less thing to worry about. R.I.P. (for now)

Back on the 27th of last month was my two year anniversary with my work. It's a pretty cool feeling not only for being with one place for two years, but I can see myself there for many more years to come. I was telling M one day that unlike most people who have say they have "jobs", and not really like what they do, but I can say "I have a career." Between you, me and the guy in the next room I someday would like to work in theater full time. Ahhhhh to dream......

Love Day

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

A funny line to help break the Ice.

On the weekends I like to put on a nice dress, go around to bars and insist that everyone call me Mrs. Habadasher. (Key point; emphasize the haba in Habadasher.) Got it off an episode of Scrubs

Trouble In Little Bellingham

Today Maralise got a call from Adrian's school, saying Adrian had a fall agianst a shelf at the school. He had fallen face first and split his lip and brused his gum. So M went over to pick him up she found him sitting in thier lunch room on a chair with a wet cloth on his mouth. As soon as Adrian saw her he broke down crying. M looed at his teeth and his gums and decided to take him up to the dentist's office for a emergency check up. Our doctor took some x-rays of his teeth to make sure nothing was broken or damaged by the fall. The doctor said that the brusing was from tearing of the tiny ligiments that hold your teeth in. Also that the little piece of skin between Adrian's upper teeth and upper lip teared just alittle bit. Ouch! Adrian has also been dealing with a cold and cough. He's done really well today except for now because he's tired and I'm sure he's in alittle bit of pain. Best be going.

Maralise vs. The Flying Turtle

Adrian & The Flying Turtle

12 Days

Coming up in a week my mom and dad are coming out for about 12 days. Fortunately they'll be out here for Adrian's third birthday which will be nice. This year we're planning to have a low key party for the A man having, but the best laid plans...... One can hope. We're looking forward to seeing my parents; it's been about seven months since our trip to Maryland and since they've seen Adrian. Thsi time they'll be flying into Bellingham and not Seatac, so no 2 hour drive after a 8 hour flight just a 15 min drive instead.

Happy New Year!!!

Last night M and I let the rest of the world celebrate the ringing in of the new year for us. We slept. M is sick and I was tired from working all day. I hope our friends and family had a fun time and enjoyed the evening. M, Adrian, and myself wish everyone the very best in this new year and hope it's even better than last year.

More Christmas Photos

This is Adrians new wagon, he spent most of the last few days going in and out of it. He would move it to one side of the apartment and then back agian.
Adrian is holding his new favorite gift. It's his own digital camera, if you look closely you can see that it has two view finders instead of one. That's so it's easier for him to see what he is taking a picture of. The camera also has a LCD screen on the back so you can view previously taken pictures, access the menu and so on. M put a link to Adrian's photo page so anyone can check out his shots.
For those that did not hear, M was starting what would be a so far eight day long flu and secondary infection epic. For Christmas some one gave her the flu, so by the middle of the day as you can see here she was out like a light. She is still feeling pretty rotten, but hopefully she will start feeling better soon. Especially beacause she needs to be at work on Thursday.

Updates, finally....

Here M helps opens what would be the first of many, many gifts for Adrian on christmas.
Here he plays with two presents from my Uncle Bruce & Aunt Irene. When you bash the toys togeather they make crash noises.
Adrian hiding under a blanket M got for him. Behind Adrian you can make out the giant stack of presents that was under the tree that day. We had to spread them out through the day, opening up a few every couple of hours. I think the last one was opended around 5:00 pm.

Check out Adrian's new photo page with some of the photos he has taken (and a few that he has requested that we take of him) with his new camera. http://my.opera.com/adsview go here and go to "photos"

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning, M and I get kicked out of our own bed, and Adrian sleeps in until almost 9:00am. What a life. :) I'm going to try to update the blog through out the morning so you all can get a play by play so to speak. Merry Christmas to all!

Seasons Greetings

It's that time of the year agian when it looks like it's going to be cold out, it's in the mid 40's over cast, and rainy. We get togeather with friends and family to share in the holiday spirit. It's been a very busy year and we want to wish everyone we know the very best and a very safe holiday. And of course what other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree in the living room and eat candy out of your socks?

Adrian's "Lego pile with Lego palm tree"

Are you ready for this?

On Friday M went down to get a hair cut. I thought she was just getting it shortened, oh was I mistaken. When she came in to the living room, I said over and over holy crap!. For years now I have jokingly asked her to cut it this short. Apparently last Friday was that day. She looks good dosen't she?

Class is now in session.

Last weekend our friend Nicole came up to visit. The book they where read is Adrian's favorite now a days. Once they where done Adrian proceeded to read the sub title of the book; "Text and pictures by Ken Robbins." We all stopped for a second to take stock of what had just occurred. Adrian read. He actually read the words to us which was pretty cool. Pretty soon he'll be the one reading to us.

Falling a sleep on the job.

Adrian here fell a sleep right below the table with his bucket and his froggy boots on. If only we could do this at work the world would be a much better place.