Archive for the 'Family' Category

May 25th, 2008

Front yard photos

I took some photos in the front yard Saturday. I’m biased, but I think they’re worth clicking through to view at higher resolution.

April 21st, 2008

My five year old daughter’s photographs

I sent my youngest daughter outside today with my pocket camera. Here are a few of the pictures she took.

March 26th, 2008

Serendipidously Dyed Egg

This Easter the kids opened the egg dying kit and lost the instructions, so my wife just did what she remembered doing in the past, and put vinegar in the dyes. That mostly worked out, but it seems that the magenta dye reacted badly and wouldn’t stick to the eggs. As a result, any eggs […]

October 14th, 2007

Handstands and Hand Walking

My son is working on learning to do hand stands and hand walking.

July 18th, 2007

My Four Year Old’s Art Night

My four year old daugher is having an art night tonight. She started by drawing a self-portrait. Then she drew pictures of some other family members. Here’s her self-portrait, and a photo of her (taken just a little while after the drawing). She cut out the self-portrait before I got it to the scanner. After […]

July 9th, 2007

When Five Year Olds Attack

Here’s a video of my son when he was five years old. Other family members make brief cameo appearances. It’s not very carefully edited.

May 28th, 2007

Hogle Zoo

A few weeks ago we took our kids to the Hogle Zoo, where my seven-year-old son learned to wrangle metal rhinos. About the time we got to the hot and stinky reptile exhibit, we decided to split up and I got to explore the zoo one-on-one with my son. In addition to the regular attractions, […]

May 2nd, 2007

Chuck-E-Twins

This is my four year old daughter playing on a slide at Chuck-E-Cheese’s a few days ago.