Holy Hula Hoops, Batman

Last saturday we helped Erika celebrate her 40th birthday! What fun! What fun! Happy Birthday, Erika. You sure set a high standard for a youthful and beautiful 40!

You are Beautiful!

I recently received a very big compliment when my friend Allison, who i met at in grad school, asked me to photograph her. She follows this blog and loves the photos i take of Una. Of course i said, YES! These are only 3 of many many fabulous shots. It was a lot of fun! I love photographing people, and Allison made it easy just by being who she is.

Baby Love

We celebrated Valentines and Chinese New Year at patty, matt and nolan's house yesterday. Patty cooked up a storm and made a lot of delicious food. It was YUM! Thank you, Patty!

Happy Birthday Thane!

Thane Atticus Georgeton lives in Bend, Oregon and today is his 1st birthday! He's a Valentine baby. Above are photos of Thane, one taken a few days ago and the other when he was first born (he's wearing booties that i made for him). Thane's mommy Kristin is one of my best friends, and we wish we lived much closer. We owe the Georgeton's a visit as they have come to see us a few times now. Miss you guys! Happy happy best wishes to Mr. Thane. You have some gorgeous eyelashes, sir!

The Phant

This was a big week for Una. I feel like she really took off. First a new tooth and a couple days ago she started sitting herself up. She can now go from laying on her back to rolling over and pushing herself up to a sitting position. It is so exciting to watch something like that happen for the first time. We also started to work with her more on standing while holding her hands and i think this is what launched her. Pretty darn cool. Mommy also finally sat down and did some sewing. Above is my first attempt at an elephant pattern that i have. it turned out pretty cute.

i also want to point out the sock monkey quilt in the photos above. Ivy did most of the work on it and i finished it. it too is very cute, and Una loves looking at the monkeys. She's big on ducks and monkeys. We had a couple of GORGEOUS warm sunny days this past week, so i took Una to Laurelhurst Park to look at the ducks. i think she fell in love. Some people are dog people, some cat people. Una is a duck person. Very fitting coming from a family of quacklings...

Happy Birthday Clyde!

Yesterday, this little man turned 3 years old, and we wanted to send out our warmest and most rockin' birthday wishes to Mr. Clyde Whitman Thomas. We miss you!

Uni B.

Ms. Cutie Patootie, who we also sometimes call Uni B, has some updating to do on her progress. First off, as of yesterday, on her 10 month birthday, Una has a new tooth! it is her upper right tooth and it looks huge! She's still not crawling, but is getting closer and closer every day. She is, however, standing a lot and can do so holding on to ones hands. i've been letting her cruise the sofas while spotting her of course. The hardest thing so far has been just letting her take a few small bumps and falls to teach her, hopefully, not to let herself fall. She's also been babbling alot, playing peek-a-boo, and generally being a happy little kid who is really into books. Especially the sign language books i got Ted for christmas. She loves those. Oh, and the other really cute thing that we started doing was throwing a soft block back and forth to each other. Patty gave me the idea to try it. It's amazing how fast they get the concept. Una's funny about it. She gets all coyishly put out about the whole thing.

We had a well visit with the doctor last month, and Una now weighs 16 lbs 10.5 oz. and is 28" long. The doc said he's happy with her progress, but due to Una having an aversion to solid foods, he recommends that we go to a speech pathologist to help her get over, perhaps, a bad association with food. She seems to do fine with most baby food from a jar, but it's the mashed up foods that she has a problem with. so, we'll see how that goes.