Well, it kinda worked. The post came through, but no title...

This is the husband, testing out some new geek goodies for the blog. After nearly 5 years of constant use and too many bounce tests to count, the Mac PowerBook is temporarily dead.

I'm just geekin' out right now, seeing if a blog editing and publishing client for Ubuntu Linux. It might rock, it could suck, but at least it and the OS it'srunning on is free!

Time to publish and see how it does...

wildlife museum with daddy

there was a new exhibit about sharks that was very cool, and then we saw these signs we have never read......and ira insisted we take a few pics

WInter Solstice 2009

we really had a lovely day!

ira photography....

lots of italian baking sealed and delivered fresh from granpa and aunt pauline!

a couple presents.....


pez....yes, for real.....

a bright pink plastic princess projector....... that absolutely THRILLED my daughter!!!!



more pez......


liv will pretty much eat anything....this turned out to be too addicting... we found liv trying to gnaw through the aluminum foil of a pez pack.


more ira photography at this years Winterhaven Festival of Lights.....


ira petting "the really sweet fake horse" (her words)

the coolest house this year- this dreidel was made out of sheet metal, at least 6 feet tall and rotated....

ira disappeared for a little while, when I found her she was quietly gluing together some craft sticks to make a frame.....





for this picture she found of us two years ago in detroit....

week in review

out to dinner with friends.....lots of dancing.....then hot cocoa.....





early morning performances by liv......






moving closer and closer to solstice........

books

we got a package with some books from the girls' great aunt! we nestled in and read last night....

Frosty the Snowman

Merry Christmas Mouse

William and The Christmas Moon

This is a really really cool shadow casting book!

A Magical Christmas

Fancy Nancy


then we dove into some library books.... it was that kind of night.

MINE! a backpack baby story

Butterfly House



The Grasshoper's Song

We had a lot of fun reading this book.... definitely a "to buy" book.

new WIP

what it is exactly? well that has yet to be determined..... i think a knitting bag for ME!

COOKIES!

the girls and i spent the day making all kinds of doughs... sugar, gingerbread, refrigerator, etc....






this was the creation of ira and jared.... so cute....

WIP: complete

i shared it here before i had decided where it would go/ how it would look......

it. is. done! it felt like it took forever!!!!

my lovely silly girl....

please ignore the poor quality of the iphone/moving child pics!!!!

drying herbs

letters to afghanistan

livs love of books....

and animals.....

mama i made you a present.....

"you love rainbows, right" she asks..... with extra excitement... when i tell her of course, she adds, "are you REALLY happy?" why, yes, i am.

"wanna watch scoooooooooby doooooo then?"

aha.

bribery. i've been boycotting scooby doo to avoid end of pregnancy insanity.... but when she sweetens the deal with RAINBOWS...... well... who could say no?

Work In Progress.....

a bright yellow/green wool skirt for ira....

scenes from our home.....

sister silly....

iras favourite new spot....

liv is a texter!

39 weeks 6 days

and in the still... we wait.....