Daddy's Day 2010

So I was able to sleep until 7 AM this morning which felt like a ridiculous luxury. Mo, as usual, was up at 5 but Beth took her downstairs so I could snooze a bit more. We had a nice walk downtown and a terrific buffet lunch before I headed out to a bookstore with the Gram and Mo.

For our Friday night pizza movie night this week our tour through Hogwarts was derailed by a mail delay, so Gram selected Fantastic Mr. Fox from our on demand service. What an incredible film! Gram was completely bowled over (as were Beth and I) so when we went to the store for me to trade in a gift of a book I already have (the amazing Godel, Escher, and Bach bu Douglas Hofstadter) I got this film as a trade in. I'm ordering a book to replace it with the generous gift card I got from my department as a going away gift. Anyway, I am happy for this to be the start of our Wes Anderson collection at home. There are so many terrific little details in the film, I know we'll see it over and over with Gram in the house and I hope Mo inherits some of the same sense of humor to appreciate it.

Tomorrow we head back to the valley for Beth to re-interview with the school. I think we'll be a full-on campus family in the fall.

Family Fun

Mo Walking

Mo Moving, More Movies

She's Walking!

So last night I sent Jim out to buy a flip camera because 1) Maureen is walking--1-2 steps at a time, but walking nevertheless 2) our video camera that we bought before Gram was born is suddenly not working 3) said older camera does not function with the modern world--you have to transfer it to vhs tapes for god's sake!

Normally we would spend a bit more time studying up on our electronic purchase before we purchase...but I figured time was of the essense here. So, though she is not walking in the previous clip that Jim set up this morning, it was our first attempt to play with the new flip camera (which was ready to go right out of the box--even came with batteries!) and upload to the blog. I hope now we will be able to easily and quickly share important moments like first steps with our friends and family far and wide. Our early report on the flip? it is awesome!

Eventually we will take all the tapes we have of Gram (and early Mo) from the other camera and pay the serious $$ it will cost to transfer them to dvd or whatever format is in use so that those memories can be shared and returned to often.

Trying Something New

Good News and Closing in on an End

So we found out yesterday that we will be getting the bigger of our dorm apartment options for next year. That is good news for us as we will be able to keep our lovely dining room furniture set as part of our day to day life. I imagine that it will be homework central for me and the boy (and eventually our little miss) after dinnertime most evenings. We are down to our final week and a half here at school and I am expending a great deal of energy to try and keep myself focused.

We are experiencing our usual May chill here as well. We had a week of warm weather that sent me scrambling one night at 11 PM to install our window AC units. Now we are getting temps in the 40s and 50s at night again. There is a beautiful chill in the evening, but I must admit that I am longing for warmth to finally seep in a bit. We have had a few wonderful afternoons and I had a lovely picnic (unfortunately it was of drive through food) with the kids out in the lawn.

More photos soon as we get our digital life organized. Speaking of which, we are thinking of making the plunge to get an iPad. We went and played with one at a recent Apple shop and it was a treat to interact with it. Just debating the cost of it all...