As a followup to my previous post about the pics Eliza Truitt took of our family, she just posted a blog entry about her favorites of the pics; worth clicking on to see many of them in larger form:
elizatruitt.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/joelle-aaron-aviva/
As today is the 23rd of August, it’s yet another monthly milestone for Aviva. She’s really been growing, and her interactivity has us enthralled. To start with, here’s her 4 month pictures, with the giraffe, of course, as with all previous months:
(You might need to visit the actual post to see any of the videos below).
She’s really getting to “talk” and “find” her feet as well, as this video shows:
She’s also starting to giggle back at us, which is very, very cute:
Bubble blowing with her saliva is one of her favorite things to do:
Finally, Aviva loves to just lay outside (with us watching of course), and hang out with Molly – they are really becoming best friends; in fact, Aviva smiles and talks when Molly comes by:
Seattle, on average, gets 3 inches of a snow a year. So far, this week, we’ve received quite a bit more than that – by some accounts, we’ll have a foot by the time it’s all said and done. While this is nothing by Michigan standards, Seattle is a different beast; not only is the city not really prepared for it (snowplows, etc…), and not only is it much more hilly (especially our neighborhood and the main street up to it – not my video by the way), but the city just isn’t used to it – so everyone goes out to play, and the city pretty much shuts down. In fact, on Wednesday, Seattle schools shut down just because of the threat of snow; it never actually did. But ever since then, boy has it been snowing (and snowing, and snowing) – and it’s been fun to take advantage of, and thus, take pictures of!
Dogs love the snow – so of course, they were out to play a lot. Videos were taken. (If you are in a RSS reader, you might need to visit the page to see these).
Today is actually my birthday, but we had to cancel my birthday party due to the treacherous conditions; we didn’t want anybody to have to drive. Instead, my sister brought over a cake to the house, and we celebrated with me and the girls (Joelle, Elana, Little Hobey (to-be), Molly and Shay); I actually rather enjoyed it!
FInally, to cap a great weekend, Hannukah started tonight, so we took a walk over to Kavana’s Hannukah Party, which met just down the street.
From all of us here in snowy Seattle, Happy Hannukah!
As all of you in Seattle know, today was our first (only?) snow day of the winter – which meant it was time to go outside and play! All of the neighborhood dogs congregated at the park, and who were we to deprive Molly of having her fun too? My sister came over as well, and thankfully, remembered to bring her camera.
Pictures tell the story:
A couple of updates from the real world, many through the blogosphere.
(As do Joelle and I, of course – May 5769 bring everyone a healthy and sweet new year!)
I’ve been told (by an amazing amount of people – didn’t know so many people read regularly) I haven’t been blogging enough, which is true – for some reason, it was a lot easier to blog when I was stuck at home with the back situation. But, I do have a lot pictures to post, so lets get started with a quick post, more to come in the next day or so.
Video as always:
Over the 4th of July weekend, we decided to take a trip up to Whidbey Island, for a few reasons:
It was just what we needed – it fit all of those goals above, and we are really super-appreciative of the Arndt’s for hosting us. Molly had a fantastic time too – she got to run around their property, go swimming, get lots of fun new treats, and just be one happy (and tired!) dog.
Pictures – click for larger ones as usual:
People:
Dogs:
Arndt House:
Videos – might need to visit the actual blog post to view:
