Posted on the Solstice, not about it (we were rushing the ritual to avoid getting rained on hard and to get the kids home to bed - and we don’t usually take pictures at rituals, anyway). Here are some pictures from late winter and spring. I managed to get back to work and do many fun things, so pictures just kind of accumulated.

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Shortly after she got back from her hockey-filled trip to Texas,
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Not much to write right now, but here are some Oscar photos from the past week or two:


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So, Monday after I left for work, Oscar managed to face-plant into the dresser upstairs, tooth-first. Elizabeth brought him in to our dentist office, who is just across the street from work, and a nice dentist and technician took a look at the damage and decided that the (90-degree-tilted) tooth would need pulling. I got to hold Oscar (due to ( Read more... )

It was Oscar's first birthday today. We gathered together some friends and family in the park at the end of the street and celebrated and took some photos. Here's a very short synopsis of the day:
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Oscar has been enjoying his 20-year-old garage sale rocking horse:

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Oscar is getting more and more mobile, and interactive! He has gotten much better at cruising along the edges of furniture on two feet, and his crawling speed (and determination to explore the house) keep increasing.

He's actually been mauling the piano for some time now, but I finally got to taking a couple of pictures - he can now sit pretty ( Read more... )

So, we found that Oscar was having a blast in a laundry basket in front of a mirror. Then I took some video footage (not thinking, I took it portrait-sideways, which is why the laptop is on its side). Then Oscar saw the video of him, and I had to take another video of him enjoying the video of himself in the mirror. I'm sure someone has thought ( Read more... )

Sunday, I got in my token February bike ride, to get groceries. It was just around freezing and quite refreshing.

I also realized I haven't posted Oscar-with-teeth photos yet.

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