from batavia, i did something that i always intend to do, but haven’t done since 2004*… i made a trip out to my old college town of utica to visit some old friends. how i had missed all my old favorite stops: the varick, franco’s pizza, the utica marsh, the scenic view of industry long […]
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batavia trip – volume 4 – austin park with the redbands varlands
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 […]
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 Update
Things on the potty training frontier are going super swell. On Friday, we drove from NC to NY. We opted for a diaper, since it didn’t seem like he was really 100% getting it. On Saturday, we were back at it. Isaac only had one accident all day (and it was a #2, so that […]
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!!”…
The deck.
Having world wide web problems with my computer, so here are some pics of the completed deck from my phone.Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry