Big, bold, Voguing to Danzig props to Nodin, who is no longer using diapers or pull-ups - it's underwear all the way, now! Welcome to the Big Boy leagues, son!

BACK FROM THE DEAD

Carve A Pumpkin With Daddy Day, Stepping Stone School, Round Rock, Texas - 10/29/2010

FRESH FLY CRAAAAAAAAAAZY COLORS

This kid has pretty much every coloring or painting or drawing art implement known to man at this point, for real!

NODIN'S PRE-SCHOOL PICTURE!

NODIN RIDES A PONY @ THE BLOOMSBURG FAIR, 9/30/09

Cell-phone photo by Alecia.

NODIN, PRE-SURGERY AND POST-"LOOPY JUICE"

NODIN WOULD LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT HIS SUMMER IS FRICKIN' AWESOME

Delayed Reaction: Photos from the April 2009 MS Walk Weekend

See Nodin's MS Paint scribbles here!

OUR OWN LITTLE PICASSO OVER HERE!

"two deep - that's just how we roll"

L-R: Neeko, Nodin

Scenes from Nodin's Birthday Party, 9/2/07

Happy 1st Birthday, Nodin!

Alecia took this really sweet picture of Nodin with his face all smeared with birthday cake and icing (blue and white) that I was totally prepared to post here without a caption; that is until this morning, when I discovered that the frickin' network admin (or whatever title is appropriate) has blocked blogger blogs. One can visit them, sure, but posting or posting comments? Forget about it. Not happening. So please don't think I'm not reading what y'all are writing (about Graduation, new mp3s you made, indie bands, etc. - I simply can't respond to it at work any longer. Thanks a whole heck of a lot, {NAME OF COMPANY I WORK FOR REDACTED}. (I'm typing this on a Pikesville Library PC. Nothing clever to add to that except, like, aren't libraries supposed to be quiet? This one never, ever is. I suppose the muted clamor can be blamed on kids to some extent but adults are just as guilty, if not more so. What happened to having and holding to standards?) Links ahoy: Christy & Emily, Mitch Myers, 5ingles (this week and last week). Also: Fred Thompson's a'comin' (or is he?)!

Nodin's Top Ten Activities, Early September 2007

1. Whacking at processed food-payloaded spoons en route to his waiting, open mouth. (He scores a direct hit roughly 10% of the time, which is higher than we'd like it to be.)

2. Falling asleep in his bed with the aid of this super helpful 2xCD set and a pacifier.

3. Smacking plastic toys together with a sometimes frightening vehemence.

4. Playing with his cousins Sheyanne and Mason, usually giggling and laughing uncontrollably, which makes Dad get all "why doesn't he laugh like that when he's playing with me? What's up with that? Why you gotta do me like that, Cap'n Curious? Damn!"

5. Pounding his palms against whatever surface is available.

6. Making bee-lines for electrical outlets, whether or not they're empty.

7. Shoveling crunchy treats into his mouth and then requesting more, even while still chewing.

8. Crawling! Crawling: still very hip, still very trendy.

9. Pulling/kicking off shoes, pulling/kicking/biting off socks.

10. Face smacking! (Often coupled with forceful attempts to shove the pacifier you frequently foist upon him into your mouth, because, well, doing this makes total sense to him, and why shouldn't it at the age of 1?)

Nodin's Top Ten Activities, August 2007

1. Biting. Arms, knees, sofas, chairs, fingers, toys, whatever, look out, it's going in my son's mouth; if he can swallow it, he will, but otherwise all those teeth he's sprouting will drive into physical objects as deep as they can. When his target's your shoulder - as it often is when he gets really sleepy - look out!

2. Pulling himself to a standing position.
3. Using said standing position to walk around whatever object he's used to pull himself up.

4. Whining. To be fair, I whine too.

5. Tilting his head to the side and smiling at observers coquettishly.

6. Grabbing anything and everything within reach (and some stuff that appears to be out of reach until it magically materializes within his little fist or his mouth; see 1).

7. Drooling copiously (teething again).

8. "Dah dah dah dah dah!" whenever excited or agitated.

9. Throwing short Boss Hog-like tantrums (cf. The Dukes of Hazzard).

10. Using every available surface for percussion. It's a lot of fun to do this along with him, as it creates a sense - real or imagined - that we're communicating somehow on a special level that makes up for the fact that we can't yet have an actual logical conversation.

This Monday in Alecia and Nodin!

This Wednesday in Nodin

Nodin, to Gravity: “Soon enough I shall elude thine acursed grasp and defy thine domineering tyranny to stand – to stand proud and tall! – riumphant at long last, finally impervious to the cruel duress under which you would imprison me while denying me mobility that is my destiny as a sentient being, verily, etc.”

Gravity, in response: “...”

This Month in Nodin

Nodin in Action

Also: sitcoms, so easy a caveman could do 'em.