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Tag: Family

  • Video of Lila painting in the bathtub

    Video of Lila paining in the bathtub (SWF). This is a video that I just found on my hard drive. I had put it together a few years ago, from when Lila was painting (it washes off) in the bathtub. On the first clip, you can see her mouthing “Where my hand go, Mommy?” She…

  • Family in town

    We spent Friday night and Saturday up in Kentwood, near Grand Rapids. My parents came down to visit. We stayed at Lisa (sister) and Dave Pollock’s place.

  • Stories and kiddie-coffee

    I had the girls this weekend, and before I brought them back this evening, we went for kiddie-coffee at a Beaners. Or, the B as Lila calls it. Kiddie-coffee is, of course, a vanilla steamer, not too hot. So, we sat around the table, sharing a lemon scone, the girls dipping their fingers into the…

  • Down like Rumplestiltskin.

    You know when you lie back to take a little rest and you wake up eight hours later? That was me, last night. I finally had the girls in bed, and I wanted to get some laundry going and do some client related work. But, I was really feeling a little groggy. So, I laid…

  • The U.P., land of penguins and icebergs.

    I was just eating dinner with Lila and she asked where I was born, as we had been talking about grandparents and how Chey and I are the children of Lila’s grandparents. “Way up north,” I said. She uses that phrase to tell people where Grandpa Ron and Grandma Donna live. Lila hunched her shoulders…

  • Eva’s mystique with the iBook

    The girls have this uncanny ability to undermine Chey’s iBook. A few months ago, Lila was “working” on Chey’s computer while I was reading a book. When she was done working, she had managed to move the Library directory from /Users/cheygranroth/ to /Users/cheygranroth/Documents. The tricky part was neither Chey nor I realized what had happened…

  • Truly, this is Chey’s daughter.

    For those of you who know Chey, you know she reads a lot. Really. I noticed a book in the shower this morning. Anyway, it seems Eva is picking up Chey’s affinity for books. She can’t read yet (she only 1.5 yrs). However, she often picks books up and flips through them, mumbling to herself…

  • Eva the aficionado

  • Beva the Great!

    I just wanted to share this with everyone: My daughter looks like Fred Sanford when she walks. It’s a stinking riot.

  • Quote of the Day

    “If I had my choice of being in this room or standing in the crater of an active volcano, you know which one I’d pick, don’t you?” -Andy, Triggermen