we're here!

you are probably tired of looking at the bat picture huh? well, i wish i could say i was doing something really productive with my time, even just finishing that book over to the right that i've been reading for so long, but no, i haven't even been keeping up with scarlett all that well. just keeping things going and going to sleep.

we aim for this kind of evening whenever we can get it... although we are probably both getting a bit tired of 'mouse soup'...


this november has been really abnormally wonderful! this was a few weekends back now, but we were out at governor nelson state park on a beautiful day. i think william's sweater was overkill as i definitely recall actually feeling uncomfortably hot at one point.

confidence kid...

no, we did not put him up to this. he hugged the tree all on his own...

playing with a stick...

back at home, driving around...

serious kid...

and, of course we did go up north for thanksgiving which is probably the most fun we've had since i last updated. william got to meet his cousin for the first time (and us our nephew). that was a great event. here is william dancing at grandma and grandpa's house.

and here's a video of william and his cousin dancing. it's a bit inconvenient for the last 2/3 of it because being the brainiac that i am, i turned the camera, not realizing that it wouldn't "right" itself or that i couldn't just rotate it. sheesh! sorry. but it's still cute enough that i decided to put it up.


that's all for now!

bat redux

you may recall that last year, william was a bat for halloween. well folks... looks like we may be seeing the beginnings of a new tradition-- see william the bat, the second...
really what happened is that we did not have our acts together regarding a halloween costume for william... not much of a surprise given that we are often scrambling to keep the bare minimum of daily life from succumbing to entropy, but it doesn't help that he is only a year and a half and therefore has no clue what halloween is and that he should be donning a costume for it. which is all to say, i'm sure that as he gets older, we will plan things out further in advance. but as it goes, we were fortunate to have a bat costume in the closet which fit him quite well. we got it from a neighbor who got it from a neighbor, and we completely forgot about it until halloween eve. he enjoyed wearing it. he learned how to flap his wings. and we pretty much kept him in the dark about the other, rather significant aspect of halloween-- the sugar. we'll see what the years bring in that area as well.


anywho, the next day his uncle geoffy came to town to run in a race. here they are... one of whom is acting silly...
more later!

why isn't the last half of lost season 5 online?

i'm putting that question out there because it appears no one else is. why doesn't abc.com or hulu have episodes 10-18 of season 5 available for viewing? it's not fair! how am i going to know what happens!?

quick picture update

i have been reminded by some siblings that it has been 3 weeks since updating the blog. everything is going well and w.t.'s seen lots of his relatives. awhile back his aunt beeeeki came to visit. that's not what he called her. he was pretty good at pronouncing her name correctly. here they are after a cold outdoor adventure...


and here, a few silly pictures of him...


climbing the walls... something he requests to do on a weekly basis...


then to michigan where greg ran a marathon. w.t. in his cowboy pj's...


and with his grandma kathy...

and with grandma and grandpa q... i took a few pictures here but i couldn't seem to get william and his grandpa smiling at the same time, so i've captured the moment here in two shots...


thank you to gma q for cooperating throughout! =)


some great shots, from his uncle geoffrey, at the lake...








on the way home from the michigan trip... in good spirits...


and later on... tuckered out...

then, with his cousin (2nd cousin?) stewart this past weekend. there are lots of great pictures from this trip, which i don't have yet, but hopefully will have sometime soon!



and i think that's it for now! time for sleep!

newest hobby

encore

filmed the same day, a little earlier than the previous...

what has he been up to?

in no particular order, an update in pictures. he's been hanging out with his friends a lot and singing and dancing.

to start off with... a video clip!

on the slide at the park...

two little scarecrows... which one is ours?

roughhousing... ?

a (bathroom) break from roughhousing...

smile... this is what he does when you tell him to smile..

bath time babies...

sleepover!

roughhousing, condoned by dad...

this isn't a picture of william. it's a picture of the extreme hail that came down tonight. i think this is the kind of weather an auto body shop owner dreams of...

goodnight!

a minute

when i have a minute-- that is, when i'm watching william in the mornings and he takes his morning nap in the morning, rather than after lunch, i usually clean up a bit-- make a bed, put dishes away, start laundry... if i have a lot of time i start dinner or an elaborate lunch for the little man, and i usually check emails and think that now would be a good time to update the blog... but then i usually end up just reading other people's blogs instead. fortunately, some on my bookmarked list never get updated... just like mine... so that saves on time. anyhow, now i have just a few minutes before i have to get ready to go to work, so i think, this time i will do it.. i really will update the blog.

william was in a wedding this past weekend. if anyone who is reading this has pictures of him in his tux, i would love to see them! please send them on. otherwise, we've just been getting through work, like usual. it's cold and overcast today, which reminds me that fall is not always blue skies and fresh air. shucks.

do i have a picture to end things with? i don't know. i will check... it probably won't be very up-to-date though...

okay... here's one: william... just about 1 year ago:

lil bro live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvx3EdA-ggA

wade hampton hamilton

you may have noticed, if you glanced right, that i am reading (and more often not reading) 'gone with the wind'... and have been for quite awhile now. (and i'm only on page 136 out of 1024, so it will be an even longer while before i finish). anywho, i just want to confirm-- scarlett did not have a son with her first husband (charles hamilton) in the movie, right?