This is a flyer on the bulletin boad at work. I don’t know what’s more troubling: the bad spelling or the fact that people seem to be taking numbers anyway.

If you squint at blurrycam here, you can almost see sam’s smile! Also: Our friends the rafers have a one year old who loves samuel! Here she is giving him a little pat and rocking his car seat.

This is possibly the building here at microsoft that houses the internet explorer development team. I do not know a lot about internet explorer ten, but i do know that its debugger finally breaks on caught exceptions, which probably means little to you but is a developer’s dream!

Mostly it rains in march, but we have had a few nice days. The children love these. :)

Lately church mornings find us in the family area, since the music is too loud for sam and sam is too loud for the sermon. Here he is sleeping peacefully there, not a care in the world, while the guest speaker tells us the awful things he has seen overseas.

I have been trying to capture sam’s smile with my phone and this was a close one! Sam likes to sleep for five minutes and then wake up and smile at us.. Just kidding mom and dad! it’s playtime!

First time this year riding my bike to the office: my head pounded, my ears froze, my stomach churned, my lungs ached. I saw my breath with every exhalation and puffed like a steam engine while actual bikers glided past me effortlessly. Basically it was awesome. On the way i saw this by the swollen lake samm river–a very submerged landing.

It has rained almost constantly the last few weeks, which has left our yard–which does not have enviable drainage characteristics–to develop actual puddles. Beatrice, predictably, loves them, and during the rare sunbreaks, we go outside and she splashes in them with her froggy boots.

Sam loves the bath! He fusses a little going in, but in a few seconds he becomes adjusted to the water and then it’s smiles and talking. Beatrice likes to “help” me give him a bath by climbing under my arms and then popping up inside my arms, between me and the bathtub.

One of beatrice’s adorable habits is prompting us with questions instead of making statements. For example, instead of saying “I’m combing my feet!” she says “Are you combing your feet?” (we are expected to echo the question, and then she says “yeah!”) Also: her big girl room is taking shape for her birthday tomorrow!