Evey in Noni's hat

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Can't wait to see the family

Sent from my iPhoneSo happy to hear they're all doing well.... ADRO is the MOM of the YEAR!

Boydee's first phrase

Yes, my daughter is wearing play jewelry and my son is rockin' a baseball cap in this pic.

Don't they look adorable? They're so cute, they just break my heart.

This literally happened the other day (unlike most everything else on this blog, which is utter science fiction): It's about 4 a.m., maybe 5 a.m. Boydee was making some noises so I was awake and listening, waiting to see if he was going to start crying.

Out of nowhere, loudly, he goes, "I don't like it!"

I'm like, "What the?" Adrianne moved, so I go, "Babe? Did you hear that?" And she responded, "Yeah! 'I don't like it!'" We kind of looked at each other and just shook our heads. Sure enough, Boyd started crying a minute later so Adro picked him up and got him happy/sleepy again.

Strange, his first phrase got here before his first word.

Tried Peking Taste take-out tonight

I called in Peking Taste take-out last night. I was at Best Buy, about to head home, and called in. They told me they'd have my food ready in ten minutes.

I ordered:

-- general's chicken
-- broccoli beef
-- fried rice
-- white rice
-- four egg rolls
-- an order of chicken-on-a-stick

I navigated over to the worst intersection in Lawrence, 23rd and Louisiana, and got in there. My food was ready. Both Tony and his female counterpart gave me excited, nervous smiles. Tony was on the phone so we couldn't talk.

The above order was mine for the princely sum of $30.

Three adults (me, Adro and Judy) and one child (Evey) ate off the order and there were still leftovers for lunch today.

All in all, it was OK. Adro gave it a thumb's up. I thought it wasn't quite as good as it used to be. We both thought $30 was just a little too expensive. Maybe if I would have left off the egg rolls or something, $26 or $27 would have "felt" better.

So that's my no-buffet Peking Taste report.

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That photo of Boydee is a month of old. He's growing fast!

Evey and Boydee

Taken on my cell phone last week.


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Christmas Eve cookies

Once again Evey made and left out cookies for Santa. Here's a photo of her with Santa's loot this year. He rewarded her for being nice all year with several gifts for her and her brother... including the Lion King DVD and a new BIKE!

I got lots of good photos from Christmas. I'll post a few soon. My company closed the offices all of last week and this Monday, so I've been off the computer for a while now. It's been a nice break. But I am excited to get back to work and create a cool magazine.

Christmas Eve

And Noni stopped by to surprise us!


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Late night with B.J.

Go to sleep, Boydee.


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Boydee and Momma, ready for Christmas

I did take this photo a few weeks ago. We got our Christmas tree up on time.

Boydee has been pretty mad this evening. I could understand if it was last night, maybe the Davidson game made him mad? But no, tonight, everything was peaceful, yet he screamed at his Momma for an hour before I finally overheard him through the Foo Fighters concert (on Palladia) and went up to give Adro a break. An hour later, and he's still screaming.

I needed a break so I set him down on the couch (I'm sitting at the computer, right behind him). I've got GolTV on (La Primera highlights) and Radiohead's "How to Disappear Completely" on a loop on the jukebox. Now, he's chilling. Maybe it's a good combo? Maybe he just needed some alone time?

Or maybe I have a reincarnated Spanish soccer fan on my hands?

Regardless... let's get to bed soon, Boydee. It's not vacation time yet.

I'll try to post the photo I just took of Boyd's POV next...

I really need to return that library book...

Five years later? That's gotta be a major fine.

(JOKING, I went and checked it out again.)

Evey is the top photo, taken when she was about eight weeks old. The second photo is Boydee, taken at about eight weeks old.

The original post with this shot of Evey can be found here.

Nice rental!

I've got this as my rental for 24 hrs. The guy got me a good deal, around half price.

It's a 2012 Corvette with only 500 miles on it! that's how I roll!


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The Rat Pack

Check out this crew of baby boys!

From left to right is Asher (with Kendall); Boyd (with Adro); Hayden (with Lindsey); and Spencer (with Jess). There are four months between oldest (Hayden or Asher?) to youngest (Boydee.)

I'll try to get a better photo of these boys together someday. As you can tell, my son wasn't too happy about the photo.

Happy 5th birthday Evey!!!

Evey turned 5 on Wednesday. But we've been celebrating her birthday all week!

I have a bunch of cool photos to share... I'll update as the week goes on.

Happy birthday Evey!!!

Enchiladas and eggs

My Grandma JoJo made me a batch of enchiladas recently... These were probably the first enchiladas I've had from grandma in 5 or 6 years. A nice surprise.

And Grandma's still got it. to this day she makes the best enchiladas I've ever had.

Years ago -- I think I was still in college -- I did a video of grandma showing me how to make them. I need to find that videotape!

Pictured here, perhaps the best way to have enchiladas... With over easy eggs. Awesome!


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Back to work

Sadly, Adro's maternity leave ended on friday, her first day back is monday. She did tell me she's not that sad anymore after her holiday christmas party... That it was good to see her coworkers again and made her feel better about going back.

Evey, meanwhile, is thrilled to be going back to school. She misses her friends and her teachers. I know she is going to struggle with getting up early, she's been enjoying sleeping in to 830 everyday.

I'll wrap this up with a thank you to Adro for taking two months of leave off to watch the kids! thanks babe, it was a great two months!!!

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