Two non-contrasting pieces

There are advantages to one's mama working at a children's theater. Stage, costumes, space to try out new material...

The Elephant Show from Basil Harris on Vimeo.

More photos from spring!

...If you can really call it spring here in Seattle (grumble grumble)...

In lieu of actual sunshine, however, these should hold you over.

Thanks to Kirk & Emmy for their hospitality and awesome camera!

45 Seconds with Nora, episode 4

The final episode in which we identify and honor the competition:

45 Seconds with Nora, episode 3

45 Seconds with Nora, episode 2

45 Seconds with Nora, episode 1

Ukelele madness: behind the music

Like Hall & Oats and Simon and Garfunkel, we started out as a plucky duo...


(complete with Abbey Road Side 1 ending!)

...but ultimately, Nora branched off into a red-hot solo career:

Derring-do of the week

Suddenly, Nora can do this:

Although it did take her nearly her 2 years and 4 months to figure out this particular bit of acrobatics.  Certainly, it couldn't have anything to do with her recent classes at circus school or anything...

Family Photo

I know: it's about time!

Full series in the shoot can be found here.

Credit and thanks to David Baum.

In case there was any doubt

Tonight Nora put on a pair of her pajama pants and her winter parka, walked up to me and said, "You know what? I'm stronger than a bee. You can't say no."

No pictures, I'll just let you mull that one over a spell.

By the way, this is nowhere near the strangest thing she's ever said.

Mysteries of the Universe!*

What IS a packa??

And what DID Nora discover?!

 

This post is mainly to say that there are some choice 2nd birthday and Christmas items on their way to Uploadsville soon.

*And also to confirm the obvious fact that we've been watching a lot of Lost.

[delayed post from 1/7/10. Still worth the pix/vids, though, I think. And yes, we know we still owe you the birthday/Christmas photos...]

Diplomacy and public art

In the middle of tense negotiations between Frog and Turtle, one side looses an angry salvo over the head of the neutral mediator:

Caught, quite literally, in the middle, the mediator fails to anticipate the speed of the counterattack:

Diplomacy fails. The mediator looks on helplessly as full-scale conflict begins:

Indeed, the only way to win this game is not to play.

And then we got some cupcakes.

Corners: the silent boo-boo makers

Look in the mirror and find the spot on your face that was marred by the corner of a coffee table, dresser or vanity when you were a kid. You know it's there, perhaps hidden now under bangs or behind an intricately-groomed mustache, but it's there. The mark of the dreaded corner.

How much longer must we silently stand by and let corners have their way with our beautiful faces and those of our children? How many corners lurk menacingly in your house - right under your nose! - while you blithely turn a blind eye?

It can happen to you. It can happen to your children.

Corners.
Get the facts... before it's too late.

Beware... Here be cute babies...

Nora & Sophie

(click the photo for more pics!)

Sometimes, friends just like to hang out together. And sometimes their faces really should be cleaned by their father before he decides to take hi-res photos (thanks Kirk & Emmy! Sorry, 17-year-old Nora!)