Attack of the Spoon!!

As you can tell, I have started getting into using the new Mac and iMovie.  Here is a short video clip showing you what fun we are having trying to get Priya to eat food.  She is just not having it.  That mouth is locked shut!

By the way, that is her favorite album playing along with the video:  "Lullaby Radiohead".

Priya's increasing mobility!

Priya is almost crawling.  The video above gives you a good idea of how she is getting around.  She is doing the military crawl right now, which gets her into plenty of trouble.  Once she gets that butt up, she will be chasing the animals around the house!

More Snow

It snowed about an inch last night while were sleeping.  Ami had to go into work on call.  Priya and I slept in until 10.  After we both ate breakfast, we headed out for a quick hike on our favorite loop through MacLeay trail.  Here is the crew prepping for our hike:

Priya and I on the trail:

The snow is quickly melting as the skies clear and the sun comes out.   Priya and I are just playing while we wait for Mom to come home.  I will try to post a video of Priya trying to crawl soon.

Sitting High in the morning sun

Random post this morning.  Poor sleep last night due to being on call and Priya's top two teeth are cutting!  Woke up in a foul mood but look up to see my little girl staring up at me.  That made me feel better.  Here she is in her new high chair:

She actually really likes the high chair.  We thought it would help her start eating food better.  Not so much.

The other thing that brightened my day this morning was looking out the bathroom window to see this beautiful sunrise:

The beautiful part about winter at our house is that as all the leaves fall off the trees in the park below our house (which you can see rise up to 200 feet), we get a great view of Mt. Hood.  Not completely unobstructed but wonderful.  Now, you can only see it on clear days, which in Portland in the winter are not too often.

Here is a shot I took from the bridge next to our house while Sona took care of business:

PS:  Pappy and Grandmaman made it home safely from Israel!

Pappy Ties a World Record!!!

Pappy tied a world record yesterday when he ran a marathon in his 99th different country! He finished a marathon in Israel in 3 hours 44 minutes. Here is a picture before the start of the race. Notice the shirt and the race number:



It probably sounded great at the time - running country #99 in Israel. But, given the recent events, we were a bit nervous about Pappy and Grandmaman going to Israel right now. But, they say the tour company is keeping them safe.

Country #100 and the world record will come with a marathon next month in Tahiti. Now that's more like it. Until then, enjoy an old picture of Pappy and Priya:

Happy New Year!

It took us a while to recover from the holidays and the crazy weather.  Sorry for the lack of blog updates.  I am sure you have all been waiting impatiently.

Haven't been up to much of anything exciting on this end.  Our nanny skipped town and gave us 3 days notice, so we are trying to recover from that.  

Here are some random pictures from over the holidays.  Enjoy.

Priya in her new pretty hat made by Grandmaman.

Priya trying to eat some rice cereal.  She is getting better.

The family rocking out to "Rock Band" - my gift for Christmas.  This is our best lineup.  Chris and I stayed up two nights in a row until about 1 am "on tour".  Good times.

Here is wishing everyone a Happy New Year.  Hopefully we will see some of you in Portland this year or wherever you live.  I will try to update the blog more frequently in the weeks to come.