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happy holidays

happy holidays

here is hoping that you and yours have a safe and happy holiday season. here’s Callum showing his love for the big guy in the red suit. (well hey – he was teething – and the picture was just too classic to pass up!) Merry Christmas...
RotK

RotK

I’m really looking forward to next Wednesday, the day that Return of the King comes out in cinemas. On the other hand, it also means that I’ll have to re-read the Return of the King novel before that date, as I have done with the previous two novels that I...
motion

motion

so as I mentioned last post, Callum has learned to crawl. Yvonne and I thought that this would mean a bit of relief for his weary parents (us!) as we figured that his being able to crawl around and explore his surroundings would make him content. We were right –...

Happy Thanksgiving

happy American Thanksgiving. For lunch today Yvonne (I volunteered to help but she insisted on doing it herself) roasted a turkey with gravy and also prepared some stuffing, candied yams, and green bean casserole, plus there were toasted buttered buns and some sweet...
baby update

baby update

as of November 18th Callum has been crawling all over the place, which has sparked the rapid babyproofing of our house. Furthermore, today was the first day that he went from lying down on his stomach to a sitting up position all by himself. His crawling skills are...
the goings on

the goings on

so baby has been learning to eat solid foods. This has been going quite well. Right away he mastered two out of the three steps involved with eating, as follows: 1) I bring the spoon full of rice cereal (aka mush) to his mouth. He opens his mouth wide. Good! 2) Callum...
how’s the weather

how’s the weather

baby update: Callum is sitting up (albiet with some assistance – he can only go a few seconds without toppling over). in other news it looks like we will not get HURRICANED. That’s good news for us but bad news for the people in Pamlico Beach. So it goes....
5

5

baby Callum turned five months old yesterday. I’ve been playing a bit with Blosxom. It is a very cool weblogging program that stores entries as text files (so that you can use a text editor to make an entry) and uses directory trees to indicate heirarchy. I have...
movies

movies

first – obligatory baby picture. This week: goofiest smile yet! second – update. This weekend was pretty fun. We went to Millenium Music and took advantage of a DVD rental deal they’re offering – 25 movies for $25 over a period of 6 months. If...

my mother’s bad timing

my mother, who lives with my dad north of Toronto, has been in Toronto during the past couple of weeks to help her parents. My grandfather (who is 90) had a surgery performed last week at Toronto General. at any rate apparently my mother was at my grandparents’...