Missing Mandi

With Aarti in town and Joo over for the night, it was almost like our annual Girl Weekend. Except that we were sorely missing Mandi. Thomas did his part to fill it, but it wasn't quite the same...

Thomas at Work

For your reading pleasure, below is an article recently published in Lighting & Sound America magazine about a project I worked on (Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA) and am quoted in several times. The article is in PDF format, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it, but it is a free program for anyone out there that may not have it. Hooray for me...

http://www.elizabethandthomas.com/Signature-LSAsmall.pdf


This project was also published in Home & Design magazine (no article, just a photo), but here is that link as well as a link to more photos of the theater for those that are interested.

http://www.bfcollection.net/publ/h&d/homedesign2007_01.htm

See, I do work on occasion....

Puff

Mandi made Carter a dragon for his birthday. Carter is enjoying it very much. In fact, it went to his new daycare to be used as his comfort object for nap time. (And yes, she actually made that dragon - it is unbelievably good!)

Computer Fun

Thomas found a very cute free computer program that allows Carter to bang happily on the computer keyboard, causing fish to swim or flowers to bloom on the screen. Carter loves it!

Dump Truck

Carter is thoroughly enjoying all his birthday presents, I just haven't gotten a chance to capture pics of him with them all yet. Here he is with the dump truck that Joo got him. The boy likes his truck, and he particularly likes putting stuff in it.

Aarti is here!

Aarti is here visiting for the week! Carter is starting a new daycare tomorrow, and he has to be "phased-in" over the next three days (meaning that he goes for just a couple of hours for the first three days, and we stay with him for progressively shorter times). Aarti is going to be helping out by keeping Carter during the day when he is not at the new daycare. We'll keep you posted on how the phase-in is going.

Aarti, Joo, Carter and I had a fun day in the park yesterday.

Real Shoes

Carter took a few well-timed steps last week. I say well-timed because Thomas and I were both sitting on the couch watching him at that very moment. He hasn't repeated the maneuver this week, but we expect he will be walking very soon. In any case, he is spending a lot of time on his feet, cruising around inside and outside, so we decided to get him his first pair of real shoes.

I went to a cute shop by our house, where they have baby sized benches for the kids to sit on while they try on shoes. I'll try to get a shot of the wee one in his new sandals (size 5 1/2) later this week.

Surgery Update

Thomas' sinus surgery went well. He is home recovering now. We expect that he'll pretty much spend the weekend on medication in bed or on the couch. If it weren't for the bleeding and medication, that would pretty much sound like his ideal weekend!

How we do it in NYC

We have heard that people in other parts of the country sometimes put their kids to sleep by driving them around in the car.

This is how it is done without a car:

Giant Baby or Tiny Pool?

Carter had a lot of fun playing outside with water this weekend. He likes it when it is coming out of the hose and he likes playing with Tupperware filled with water. He attempted to climb into the Tupperware several times. So we have ordered him a baby pool.