just a thursday

naia and her cousin austin play a lot. thursdays are the norm and usually a little mischief on the weekend... here is a video from a recent thursday. nothing extraordinary here, just a taste of the way they roll.

Happy Birthday to the "B" of WANDB

Happy Birthday Brooks!
...and chester too, who is 10
unfortunately i don't have any special pictures or creative blog for the occasion.... but thats mostly because naia and i want to spend our time partying with the birthday boys! ...so i'm going to get back to that! cheers.

You can't have it twice

So, a couple of blogs ago there is a cute video of my mom reading to Naia and her cousin, Austin. We thought this was so cute in fact, that we tried to recreate, or rather, produce episode 2 in a story time "series" for the blog. As you will see, the only one cooperating here was good old linda...
i think we'll wait until they're a little older to try a video with specific direction (like "sit", for example)
i think these are pretty funny

some things =)

Cousin Fun

Because its Fun
this is great (and it was earlier today if you can believe that)

Her Dancing

"have a happy healthy everything"

thats what my grandma used to say. it covers all the bases this time of year, and i'm going to have to rely on her catchall heavily. we didn't get around to doing christmas cards. when that time period came and went, we thought, 'well, how about a new years card?' or something weird typical of us. While, in the back of my head, i'm still holding out hope that we get our act together and send out a presidents day card, it is unlikely to happen. So, for fun, pretend this blog entry came in your real mailbox, was postmarked, and gave you a paper cut while you opened it. It'll make me feel a lot better.


this was going to be on the card =)

Mary Tess said it best: this is naia with a hint of chester



new friend/cousin =)

and her new "up to something" face


this is actually new years eve. nothing too exciting for us, just how we like it. Naia is here, in her new years best, performing one of her new passions: coloring =) FUN!!
A big thank you to Santa and all his little elves for a wonderful christmas and holiday season!

and now for my new years resolution: to snail mail a real holiday card NEXT year! I make no promises =)

From our home to yours, have a happy healthy everything!!