on a couple of occasions, we visited the new and improved austin park and visited with my old pal from high school, julie redband varland. 🙂she’s got two little varlands herself, so it’s fun to have playdates in batavia. isaac mostly liked the swing and jake did a great job obliging him: here’s a lovely […]
family
batavia trip – volume 3 – the mohawk
leslie cut isaac’s hair and derek found out about it on facebook. 🙂
batavia trip – volume 2 – stafford parade
for those not in the batavia new york “know”… after the st. joe’s carnival (see previous post), comes the stafford carnival. since we were all carnivalled out, we only went to the carnival kickoff event — the parade. it was pretty rough… lots and lots and lots of firetrucks. and lots and lots of space […]
batavia trip – volume 1 – st. joe’s carnival
this is the first of quite a few blog posts dedicated to our recent trip to batavia, ny 14020. isaac and i drove up with sarahpowers, stayed for two weeks, and drove back with jakepaine (my brother). rather than one, long, obnoxious post, i’ll be breaking it down into several, smaller, more manageable pieces… first […]
Potty Training
Earlier this year, we dabbled a bit in introducing the potty, only to discover that Isaac wasn’t really interested. Well, he was interested. Just not quite “getting it”. He wanted to wear undies. He was willing to sit on the potty. He didn’t have accidents. Sort of. He would hold it and hold it and […]
dressed up.
we went out to a fancy pants dinner last weekend to celebrate darren’s birthday. no sneakers, no jeans and no t-shirts allowed. that eliminates most of isaac’s wardrobe, but we did manage to find these duds. isaac knew they made him handsome, and eagerly obliged every request for a photo with a big “cheeeeeeese!!”…
lesolie’s baby
baby eliot jayne is here. well, she’s been here. born last sunday. may 3rd. it just took leslie a while to get me some pictures of her. and even then, i just had to steal some from her facebook. oh well. here she is: in the hospital, i think?with dad:with mom:with some sunshine:
isaac’s hero
isaac loves jake.anything jake does is hilarious.especially if it involves some three stooges humor.
i like swinging.
my ny family (mom, terry, jake, dogs and neighbor debbie) came and left. terry and derek worked feverishly on the deck and it’s looking really awesome. other than that we didn’t really do much. i didn’t take many pictures except for a quick trip to the park. my mom plopped isaac onto the big kid’s […]
easter
some cute pics of isaac and his cousins (and crazy aunt madge) from easter…(i’m too lazy to upload them to blogger AND picasa). Easter 2009