Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

UPDATE: Shortly after my post below Gus woke from his nap (only about 30 minutes into his usual 1.75 hours) in mid-tantrum (I guess you can get frustrated in dreams, too).  After about twenty minutes he calmed down, but the nap was officially over.  I shouldn’t have drawn attention to it by commenting in my [...]

sympathy

from joe
So I really wacked my head on that chair the other day and had a nice bloody mark, which has now scabbed over. As Gus and I were eating banana bread this morning I saw him spying my forehead. He said “Wow. Papa’s face”. I replied, yes, papa has a boo-boo on his forehead. [...]

honey!

from joe
When Gus does something particularly impressive (like recite a song from start to finish or “read” a page in his book), he likes to say, “Oh my gosh! That’s amazing!”.  The other thing he has been saying is “Honey, did you hear that?”, requesting accolades from one of us.  Today, I was calling Heidi [...]

la la la

from joe
Gus has been showing us more and more of his musical tendencies.   He loves to listen to music, dance and bang on impromptu drums.  We listen to a fair amount of children’s music (They Might Be Giants and Dan Zanes being the most tolerable), but I try to slip in my own music whenever [...]

updating the blog

happy halloween!  we’ve made four posts to the blog (see below) in one day.  just trying to make up for the fact that we didn’t post at all in october.  enjoy the photo update, too–over 250 photos and 11 videos! proof that we have been busy.

Argh, matey!

from joe
Halloween somehow took us by surprise this year. We didn’t even find time to buy and carve pumpkins, though we did make it to a pumpkin patch on Sauvie Island. Gus enjoyed climbing on and trying to lift the pumpkins (we decided they were too heavy to lug back to the car). Luckily our [...]

chatty gussie

Our blog entries seem to be spaced further and further apart as Gus gets older. The days, weeks, and months since our last entry have been a blur of home projects, play dates, and (most recently) tantrums.  In the interim, Gus has learned new talents (climbing the jungle gym at the park, sliding down the [...]

caught on camera

from heidi
my sister, kelley, lent us her flip video camera last spring and while we’ve been using it on occasion, we haven’t been good about posting those cute videos of gus.  so without further ado, here’s some fun clips of gus we’ve caught on camera in the last seven months or so:
videos posted on flickr
gus [...]

our new cat jasper

we had a mouse in the house and decided that a cat was the best way to solve this problem once and for all while also giving a needy pet a home.  we headed to the shelter and picked out a nice youthful fellow.  after several failed names (his shelter name was “silver dog mojo” [...]