Drumming in the New Year

Drumming in the New Year, originally uploaded by zavodk.

We brought the New Year in right with a great party hosted by Callie. Sue and her family came for a visit and we had a great time. Milo was great with Baby Baileigh (gosh I hope I spelled that right) & was all about Sue with some bellytime.
I am happy to say Happy New Year everybody....
Wishing you the happiness & love in 2007!
This is Milo dropping off to sleep before the proverbial ball dropped...about 11:20??? He still looks like a baby when he sleeps....

huh

Photo 173.jpg, originally uploaded by zavodk.

well our guests are here for the new year, and chris went nuts and shaved it all off. No real reason , just because.
Jenna eat your heart out I got Bayleigh first!

table talk

table talk, originally uploaded by zavodk.

ok well,

we are back from another trip down south. The christmas season is over, and milo has much to be thank-full for.
He had so much fun playing with his family and friends, now it is time for snow. We have a tom of photo's but the are stuck in Philly for a while in "Computer Limbo" I guess we will just have to buy Nana a new mac huh?

Milo with his ( and dad's) trains

Milo with his trains, originally uploaded by zavodk.

ok well I know this isn't Christmas related, but the one night I was able to use up all the bits to the Brio train set. It might seem like nothing special, but you would be wrong.

Because we can't get enough of dragons

Because we can't get enough of dragons, originally uploaded by zavodk.

Milo on stage again, at the Children's Museum, dressed as a dragon. I am sensing a theme here folks!

Letter to Santa

Letter to Santa, originally uploaded by zavodk.

Today we wrote a letter to Santa, with our please and thank you's included! Milo was really excited to dictate the letter. He specified three presents, but listed off about five....
He can hardly wait & honestly neither can we. This Christmas is gong to be much fun!
Happy Holiday Season....

ROAR!

dragon hiding behind the curtain!, originally uploaded by zavodk.

Milo jumped out from behind the curtain yesterday at the Children's Museum. He was a hidden dragon in the cave....Look out everyone.
ROAR!

I would like to ntroduce a new feature to the Blog.....a stolen feature from a sweet little website about a little girl we knew in the Czech Republic named Agnezka. The site is called Icky Pie. Anywho the feature is titled "Why She/He is so Damned Adorable...."
Today he woke me up and he told me he was "happy." I asked him why was he so happy, and he said, "to see you!"
& the second reason he is so damn adorable is today at gym & swim class he was playing with this little girl Lydie. He had crawled through a tunnel and jumped up and surprised her, than he gently tickled he under her chin and said sweetly, "tickle, tickle" Lydie went into a fit of giggles, as did Milo.....

a photo show for you

Flash Slideshow

tree climber

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Originally uploaded by zavodk.

Having fun in the park yesterday climbing trees and riding bikes!!! Come look at the photos there are lots to share...

A Great Wall Thanksgiving

evergreen cemetery swans
Originally uploaded by zavodk.

Feeling a bit nontraditional today, we decided to go and get Chinesse food for Lunch before I had to go to work (this is Jenna writing). We hadn't been able to find a good chinesse restuarant since we moved to Portland 3 years ago. Thai food here is great, Chinesse not so much. Honestly the thought of a Chinesse Buffet just doesn't sound appealing. The Great Wall Chinesse Buffet came as a suggestion with very high recommendation with the food being incredibly fresh. I went with reservations, but happy enough. It was great. Fresh as could be and relatively cheap. They even had a koi pond, by far the greatest strip mall chinesse place with pond/fountain I have ever been too. Milo liked it too. He loved the fishes and had a giant plate o' fruit and Terayaki Spare Ribs, he was in heaven!

After the lovely food we decided to go for a walk. I was thinking somewhere we'd never been before and because we were close we stopped at the Evergreen Cemetery. Why a cemetery? Well there has been much debate about this particular locale recently. The Evergreen Geese
Since never having seen this particular area which was under some debate recently and even stirred a friend of ours, Heather, who admits to not becoming involved much into action. We were really surprised at how lovely this little area of Portland is, at the bottom of an old, old cemetery there lies 3 small sculpted ponds and just beyond it a very large pod. Surrounded by large old trees. I could only begin to imagine how pretty it is in the summer. Its always so refreshing to find something so lovely and new in a place that seems so farmilar. On that note, at Strange Maine today there was a listing of what the one author felt she was thankful for, you should check it out. It was beuatifully well put!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! We love and miss you all very much and are so THANKFUL that you are in our lives in some way or another and always in our hearts!