Archive for Evan
Chef Boys-ar-we
Posted by: | CommentsEvan and I made tea together today (that’s dinner for you ‘merkins. However, I must point out that the whole chef hat idea wasn’t entirely mine!
Home
Posted by: | CommentsAfter nearly 5 days away I finally managed to make it back home. The MyVision workshop came to a conclusion last night and this morning everyone started making their way home. Well, last night isn’t entirely accurate as a large contingent of us were up until 4:30 this morning and still a few more a bit later. I hadn’t done that since university and even then only on the rarest of occasions. I think you discover a whole new threshold of tired when you have kids.
It was great to see Nicola and the kids…to remind myself of the reason I do these things…after collecting Evan from school I got the camera out.
Hope to have some new Brighton pics up next week.
Busted!
Posted by: | CommentsNo I’m not referring to the mid Naughties boy band (although ‘Year 3000′ was rather catchy). No I’m referring to the recent disappearance of the kids on the blog. I was caught out yesterday when a friend who hadn’t been in touch for a while said she’d been to the blog only to find photos of weddings. Considering the blog was originally founded on the adventures of E it would appear I’ve been more than a little delinquent in my duties of daddydom. So, to redress the balance, tip the scale and generally even the score here are a number of images taken over the past few weeks. Sorry for being a slack*ss.
The real bummer here is that I finally got a proper sledge for him…the day the snow melted. I’m desperate for MORE snow!
Honest…she’s really pleased to be tossed around like a rag doll
Photo taken by my 4 year old son
Perhaps a small clue why we don’t have as many photos of Holly
Mummy…I need a Wii
I wish I could say that this face was put on
Furniture surfing
A brew and a snack…life’s been good to me so far
Brew and a snack on the road
Daddy’s wallet…FOUND!
“You can’t go to playground in a skirt THAT short” – Nicola practices for the years to come
All is quiet
Got The Pox
Posted by: | CommentsA right of passage…a sign you’re human…or just generally a PITA. Yes, Evan has got the pox…chicken to be more specific. The scabs have crusted over so things are back to normal…bar the itching. Sadly he missed a few days of school and one of those days was the day I was supposed to see his Christmas play. Nicola saw it this morning but with no one to stay with Holly it meant only one of us could go.
Holly is growing…not just in voice (and believe me, she’s no about to shut up anytime soon) but also in size and milestones. What used to be an effort to stand up has turned into a swift kick of the legs. Two hands can now be one to hold on with. She can move up and down the sofa shuffling along the way. Crawling has 2 speeds..casual and F1 launch control. If there is a biscuit at the other end, she could beat Lewis Hamilton off the line….plus we’ve got 2 bottom teeth as well.
Here are some pics of the kids from the past week or so:
The Fantastic Mr Pox
Santa is gonna get a big surprise this year!
Biscufitti
Check out my new teeth!
Ho (ho ho)
Before the pox
Holiday Pick Me Up – A Blast from the Past
Posted by: | CommentsSome of you may remember this….? But for those who don’t…NO…this isn’t Holly. It is, in fact, Evan just before his first Christmas in 2005. Funny some folks will think its Holly. In iPhoto (the Mac included photo sorting application) it has a feature called faces. Select a face, draw around it and tell it to find loads more of the same person. Whilst it didn’t find all of Evan it did take a rather interesting view on Holly being Evan as well. Computers eh!
Home of the Free
Posted by: | CommentsIn the imfamous words of that guy from the Royle Family…”home of the free my arse”. 18 months had passed since we last visited the one thing we noticed was how things don’t seem to be as inexpensive as well remember. That’s across the board. In fact, the idea that we live in Rip Off Britain is becoming less and less real. OK, so when I drooled my way over to the Apple Store things have similar numbers. £799 or $799…I appreciate there is a difference but so many other things just aren’t what they used to be…funny I thought they were in a huge recession…so why is everything more expensive. Heck..who knows.
It was a whirlwind trip lasting only a week. But wait, you say…you blogged all this new stuff! Yes, its called the beauty of scheduled posts. I didn’t really want to advertise the fact I was out of the house for a week.
Travelling with the kids is always fun — NOT. If plane journeys didn’t have such a substantial pay-off at the end no one would ever fly. The hassle, the expense, the time wasted at the airport..its all mental. Then our lovely air stewardess tells us that even though we are in a bulkhead seat with a child cot for Holly, she mustn’t sit on the floor. Something about decompression and oxygen…excuse me…really. What about these 10 people in the toilet queue. Should they be standing up in case of a decompression or should they pee in a cup? After 5 minutes we put her back and agreed we would take it all the way to the top if required. She never said anything else.
Seeing family and friends is great. I caught up with a great friend, James, whom I hadn’t seen in 13 years. Yes James, you were there and it wasn’t Bo’s apartment but Pipers. We went to a pseudo family reunion, hung out with friends from my university fraternity (yes, its just like Animal House) and had play dates. Ironically we also meet up with Nicola’s friend from school and see him and his wife more than we see friends from school who live up the road.
All in all a great trip…although I think my wife was swapped when I wasn’t looking. I set her loose on two seperate shopping occasions and she only bought 2 things. I’m thinking of having her tested!
Here’s a few pics from our trip…nothing much really but good fun all the same.
Hey good lookin’
Holly gives the A gates at Terminal 5 a big thumbs up
Evan at IHOP .. time is 6:05 am — Jet lag is a bitch! BTW, Wal-Mart is remarkably quiet at 4:30am
Meet Will…my great nephew..which makes me sound MUCH older than I REALLY am
Holly and Will
Roberto Burrito and family…yes, we did experience the best of Halloween — even a crazy man with a chainsaw (and I’m not even kidding)
Could it be that Holly also shares my strange attraction to Velma from Scooby Doo?
Nuclear pumpkins
Peek-a-boo
We got to visit Skyline Drive, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains
