ok i think i may actually do this thing...

sigh. ok. i think i can do this. my schedule hasn't been the greatest for blogging, but i just gotta take the time to do it. i think it could really be fun. so here goes...

i had the best intentions to start this once i started my current full-time job as stay at home dad this past January, but see the previous paragraph in this entry for an explanation on that. well, a lot has happened since that last post in June. i never did get a picture of Aria screaming inside the play-yard. in fact, she ended up liking it very much. but now that she's a walker (runner), and we had our family room/kitchen remodeled, we don't even set it up anymore. she's pretty good about not getting into stuff, tho i do have to keep an eye on her. 2 eyes.

We had a great birthday bash for her, mostly for us surviving the year. the first annual Ariafest was the day before her birthday, and i had most of a grolsch minikeg :-o. no hangovers allowed tho, because we had family over the next day for her official birthday party where she got a little messy with some cake. :-)

here's some recent pics of her before, during, and after the thanksgiving holiday:

she loves reading,


drumming,


playing in leaves,


dancing,

running,


talking on the phone even when it's not a phone,

and making weird faces and laughing at herself!

hopefully i'll post again less than 6 months from now...