Just in case

It occurs to me that I put up some pictures in the links on the right that I never mentioned in a post, and some of you might have missed them. Well, here they are. They are from early December and our first day in Baltimore, as well as a few of Nicole's cousins (and aunt and uncle) that my parents had.

Finally

It's only been about 3 weeks, but I'm finally posting the photos from our trip to Baltimore. There are quite a few, and I'm only posting a fraction of what we took. So enjoy.

Meanwhile, Nicole has been sick for a lot of 2008. Just a bad cold. Must be these rough Arizona winters. But she's much better now and back enjoying day care. She weighed in at 15 lbs, 12 oz at her 9 month checkup (5th percentile) so we've upped her food and are trying to fatten her up. She's doing great with it and loves all the new things she's eating -- yogurt, cheese, eggs, chicken. She also had her third tooth pop through, her first up on top.

And for those who care about me and not just Nicole, I start a job this week. I'll be an editor for an educational publisher working on their online classwork. It's a 6-month stint, but a lot can happen in 6 months.

Here are the pictures.

Excuses, excuses

Nicole came down with a nasty cold somewhere between Baltimore and Phoenix, and has been home since, with the exception of a half-day at day care yesterday (after which they decided no matter how much they had missed her, they were sending her home). Needless to say that's kept me from having much time to post, let alone deal with photos. But as her snot is clearing up I see some blog updates on the horizon. So stay tuned.

Clearly now I'm just having fun playing with a new toy. But this will be the last one of the day.

"Crawling" and "Talking"

You can't really say that what passes for either are the real thing, but these are Nicole's versions.

Trying this again

Let's hope this works. Here's Hanukkah video of Nicole enjoying wrapping paper.

Apologies

I spent a fair amount of time today working on videos of Nicole "crawling" and "talking" and also of her first Hanukkah. Then I tried to upload it to the site. An hour later I finally got an error message. So while I wait for feedback from Blogger and for more free time to try a different video editing program, I come back to you with more excuses.

Maybe I'll post some pictures this weekend if I get a chance. We leave on Monday for a visit to Baltimore, so we'll definitely get some good footage out of that. Hopefully I'm able to post the video. We'll chalk it up as New Year's Resolution No. 1.