I Guess You Can't Pick Your Family

But luckily you can eat them when their defenses are down.

I Have a Cousin!

Hi Everybody! I just wanted to take this opportunity to welcome my new cousin William into the family (I will be calling him Willy. I asked Aunt Laurel and Uncle Lorney and they said it was okay).

Dear Willy, I'm excited to come to California soon and see you. I hear you weighed 11 pounds when you were born which apparently is a lot. Way to go. I'm glad I got to see a picture of you too...clearly good looks run in our family. Anyway, here's some free advice: try sleeping through the night as early as you can. I think it makes your parents love you more.

Love, (your favorite cousin)

Azalea

Flickr

88 new pictures on the flickr page. They're all in "misc" for the time being, but I'll fix that later.

Look What I Can Do!

Zayley's favorite party trick is sticking her whole fist in her mouth. Here she demonstrates for some of her favorite people, Rachel and Brian.

This One is Pretty Much Only for the Grandparents

Chatty Zayley
Originally uploaded by N8tr0n

The following is a looooong clip of Zayely when she's a little chatty. She's telling me about her day. I say it's mostly for the grandparents because, unless you're the parent or grandparent of a baby, about 30 seconds of their drooly face up close while they babble is about all you need...this clip goes on slightly longer.

Weekend Video Extravaganza!

Miss Azalea is a sicky today. She's still her usual happy self, she just has a snotty nose and sounds like a Pug when she breathes. We feel pretty bad for her since she's a baby and can't just blow her nose. I can't believe how well she puts up with having her nose suctioned after every nap. What a great baby.

Anywho, I've been taking some time trying to get our videos loaded onto the computer. (Oddly enough, the digital video camera doesn't download as easily as the digital camera). So I'm going to be putting videos on here throughout the day. Some of them are a little long, because I'm not taking the time to edit them since the grandparents are getting pushy again about updating the blog.

At first these are in no particular order, but eventually I'll put them from oldest to newest...or youngest to oldest, depending on how you think about it. Also, (mom) if you pace yourself and don't watch all the videos in one day, you might not notice how infrequently I'm updating the blog.

Five Little Monkeys
Originally uploaded by N8tr0n

April came to visit me one day with her kids, Parker wanted to entertain Azalea so, commence with the singing. She's very lucky to have two "older brothers" to entertain her during they day and they're so great with her!

Dear Mr. Lion,
I'm sorry I bad-mouthed you earlier. you were right and I was wrong. You are the toy that Zayley decided to reach for and play with; not any of those stupid other toys I was dangling over her head forever. Please accept my apology.

Don't worry, you don't have to understand it.

I made a model for part of my thesis. It's still in pretty rough draft but if you put new numbers in the green area, the numbers in the red and yellow areas change along with the graph. Plus it looks kinda cool.