Saturday afternoon

Just another Saturday afternoon playing with Mira. We love it!

Mira and her dad

Dave and Mira like to hang out by the window and watch all the little birds at the feeder. We have a bunch of little yellow fiches that provide some great entertainment for us right now.

More Misc Mira

A study in contrasts. Sometimes happy, sometimes not so happy.

Dave’s Best Tunes of 2011

Every year I put together a playlist of my favorite tunes from the year. Most of the tunes are from the two song-of-the-day podcasts I subscribe to (KEXP and The Current). 2011 seemed like a really good year for music, it was easy to pick a CD’s worth of favorite tunes. My favorite 2011 tunes are below, in the YouTube clips. [...]

Play time

Mira has started to really enjoy hanging out on her play mat…it is going to get extra fun when she can intentionally reach her toys but for now I get to play with her.

Misc Mira

Here’s some miscellaneous shots of Miss Mira. Enjoy!

A New Kitchen

Last year we remodeled our kitchen, and yup, we’re just now getting around to blah blah blahing about it. Construction started in August last year, and was finished in early October. When we were considering buying our house, both Morgan and I looked at the kitchen and thought, “Dag, we’re gonna have to remodel that [...]

All smiles

Mira is smiling more and more these days. Still not much chatting, though, we really have to tickle her good to coax sounds out of her. But we’ve been enjoying the smiles. They typically happen in the morning. I like to think it’s not because I’ve left for work, but that she’s more of a [...]

Out for a little jaunt

Mira and I joined our friends Jennifer and her daughter Eliana to the Chinese Garden this morning. The garden is free for the week and I have never been so we agreed we had to go! It was a gorgeous sunny day in Portland today, a little chilly, but nothing a good jacket and hat [...]

Nap time