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.