Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Tiny post

Just thought I'd share Evan gives kisses when you ask for them.

It's adorable... and slobbery.

Thursday, December 04, 2008

An apology for being gone so long.

Small collection of things, mostly full of cuteness.

And Jesse being a tool.

(Apologies for using both Flickr and Vimeo, length restrictions suck.)


First of many from Liane Katzenberger on Vimeo.



Friday, October 31, 2008

Consolation prize

Okay, so it's been 13 full days since Evan's birthday, which should be more than enough time for me to upload video and such. Except, a lot of things happened in those 13 days, and I also haven't quite figured out how to edit the footage from the camcorder yet.

So instead, you get Halloween pictures!
We dressed Evan as a Moogle this year, a cute little creature from the Final Fantasy video game series. The only person in my family who got it was my brother, and his reaction was something along the lines of "Uhh, ok."



All of our internet friends, however, thought it was AWESOME. As did we.



He did pretty well, although he was not a fan of the hood. He LOVED the decorations at people's houses, especially anything that made noise or lit up. I think he's under the impression that the whole world is basically his toy box expanded a billion times. Poor kid.



We only went to six or seven houses, but ended up walking most of the neighborhood because we had a few specific stops, and he was enjoying watching the other kids.

We took with us the Moogle amigurumi that Misha made for him, and stored him in the glowstick lantern we were carrying. The overall effect was that of carrying a hamster ball on a string.



Next year, he'll be able to walk for himself, and I plan on forcing him to be something cumbersome and furry... like Disney's Stitch.

You can see the rest of the photos here.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Birthday photos!

The first round of birthday photos can be found here.

I will post more about it when I'm not dead to the world.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Holy sh...

In five minutes, exactly one year ago today, Evan was born. Well, not so much born as yanked out of me through surgical intervention, but that's just semantics.

We are not partying today but tomorrow. I am documenting as much of this horrible process as I can, because those of you who do not have kids.. this is a reason to wait. First birthday parties are NOT fun to organize, especially when you're me and you like to do things yourself because you're a control freak.

Did I just admit that to the internet? I must be more stressed than I think.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Indian summer

Last Sunday we decided to test ourselves as parents and took Evan to the fall festival of a local farm. This meant not only skipping his morning nap, but also being in the middle of a metric ton of people on a day that was abnormally hot for October in Illinois.

Skipping his nap didn't seem to bother him until almost the end of the excursion, which was only about 3 hours long (including breakfast). He seemed to like watching all the people, and the huge sandbox of corn kernels (seen above) might as well have been the world's biggest fleece blankie. He didn't want to get out of it, despite being afraid to crawl in the corn.

The corn maze and the petting zoo he didn't really care about, except to watch the other people that were in both places. As he gets older I'm noticing that he is much more into observing people than objects, and in our household this extends to the dogs... there are days I'm convinced he thinks he IS a dog.

We managed to survive with minimal whining and crying, he was okay until the very end of the trip when we were deciding on a pumpkin. Four people trying to decide on one pumpkin is difficult, by the way.

You can find the rest of the photos here.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

I didn't want to tell him, so he told all of you.

I love that Jesse finally registered a username on blogger... just to make me look like an even bigger idiot.

Yes, I dropped it. There were some extenuating circumstances involving dogs and baby toys, but this doesn't mean much to your husband when you're trying to explain how you destroyed the LCD screen in less than 5 seconds.

We still haven't sent it in to HP, because we are prepping for the party and frankly I don't even have time to go to the bathroom, let alone mail out my PC. Apologies to those looking for me on twitter/IM/etc.