The First Day of School

(posted by Liane)
ahhh... the best day of the year!

We started out our traditional first day of school activities with some pictures in our front yard.

And then it was off to IHOP for our "first day of school breakfast". Emerald had her favorite, strawberry pancakes with whipped cream. Bob had a pile of french toast with an even bigger pile of syrup. I had eggs, sausage, bacon, and swedish pancakes. David had 1 oz. of water.

After IHOP we went directly to Georgetown Elementary for the first day of fourth grade. This is the back of the school where all the kids congregate before being led inside by their teachers.

A few pictures of Emerald and her friends waiting for school to start.

Like Mother, like Son

I was finally able to capture a photo of David following in his mother's footsteps: thumb-sucking and hair twirling. A great combination! Unfortunately, David scratched himself on the face pretty bad today.

Emerald's new 'do

Emerald got a perm! She really wanted curly hair, and here's a picture of the final product.

Hooray For Superheroes!

This past weekend I went to GenCon 2007 in Indianapolis, Indiana, where I spent many hours ho-humming around the crowded conventionroom floor as I avoided all manner of strange and disturbing individuals in my quest to find something, SOMETHING that interested me.

Turns out I didn't have to look far. Just around the first corner, in fact, where I stumbled across the winner and two runner-ups of last year's first season of Who Wants To Be A Superhero.

Of course, I had to get a photo.


Here I am, posing with Fat Momma, Major Victory, and Feedback (the season one winner). In back are two less than savory characters: Bobby Kranson, the guy scowling between myself and Major Victory, and Matt Cowling, the guy hiding behind Major Victory's hair. These were the guys I traveled to Indiana with, and neither could comprehend what would drive me to get my photo taken like this.

The answer is really quite simple.

I am now officially cool.

-Bob

Finally! Smile photos!

This morning David was a bit more smiley than usual, so we grabbed the camera and got lucky. A new gallery is up with two (count 'em, two) photos of David smiling on the bed.

-Bob

More Smiles...

Thought I'd put up another quick post to let everyone know that over the last couple of days David has become quite the smiling baby. It's still kind of hard to catch one, as he seems to have a mind of his own when it comes to when or why he chooses to smile at all, but it's definitely becoming more and more commonplace. He's still working on getting both sides of his mouth to work together, but he's trying.

Anyway, if we're lucky enough to catch one in a photo we'll post it.

-Bob