Christmas in NY

I had opportunity to go into the city just before Christmas to see a performance of Handel's Messiah. It was incredible. Here are some highlight photos... You can find a more extensive collection on my facebook page if you are so inclined.




I love this one.. looks like its right out of a horror film or something...


Rockefeller Center is at my back, and that's Saks 5th Ave in front. Saks has this very cool light show with music and those snow flakes... I taped part of it and will post it if I can ever bet my editing software to work on this lame operating system (XP64) - [not to get off topic, but Vista and the x64 OS' are from the Devil and should be sent back to where they came.]

The very large tree.


Notice the man on his knee under the statue....


We happened to witness this proposal... very sweet.

And since I never said it publicly - MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all who wander here.
(Only 9 days late... It's been worse)

More Fun in the Bath

As Abby's hair gets longer there is more and more temptation to do stuff like this:



She doesn't seem to mind.

She Ain't Mikey

Forgive the 80's reference to the Life Cereal kid... but please enjoy the facial responses to what was clearly some inferior cuisine.

Fun with Static

Well, fun for US anyway...

Bathtime Lunacy

My wife may kill me for posting this - so it may not be here for long. But you should see the havoc that Abby now causes in the tub -->



picture a soaking wet but smiling lady here
with a child making huge splashes in the background



You can see why no one is safe...


The maniacal splashing baby!


Crazy Bean!

and another bean post

Abby has started to brush her teeth.

Just like daddy!




Our living room is the toybox. It's about the size of one. :-)





The rarely seen bottom row of teeth!


What? You've never seen bottom teeth before?





Mommy and Baby both have pretty eyes!


OK.. could someone please wash my face now?

Back to Baby

Well, the baby is getting big...
Here are some pics that closed out 2007 (this and the next few posts)




She climbs everything now... though not always successfully. But mom or dad are always there with a helping hand or foot as the case may be.


And now she looks at things of interest and goes "OOOOOOOOOOOOO"
This is what that looks like :-)


Our humble little tree... This year we had to get a small one and put it up on our table so we could keep Abby from doing her Godzilla impression.

My Thoughts Exactly...

I love it when someone else so perfectly elucidates verbally what you have been kicking around in your own head for some time.

Justin Taylor over at "Between Two Worlds" has done just that for me in regards to the GOP Presidential Primaries.

If you care what I think (why would you really?) you can read about what he thinks and just pretend it is me saying it. (Oh if only all thinking could be so easy...)

Spin Cycle

Abby has found out how to spin in a circle. Now we can't get her to stop. It was still funny when we shot this little clip, but now we are concerned she may be addicted and killing brain cells by the millions. We are thinking about an intervention...
Actually we are just concerned she is going to fall and crack her head open.
She is officially crazy... at least a little bit.
She'll fit right in.