[Daniel] Happy Birthday, Number Two!

The big Two Year Old! We're so very proud of you and all the big strides you've been making!

[Daniel] PyCon 2010 Lightning Talk

My talk starts at 17 minutes in.

Long story short, I went to PyCon last week, which was awesome. While at PyCon, I gave a lightning talk (5 minutes, anything goes, fast-as-you-can about a topic) about my biggest open source project - Haystack.

[Moriah] Quotes By Mini Me

While reading a truck book with Grammie, he became very concerned: "If a firefighter burns up in a building...then what?"

[Moriah] Quotes By Mini Me

While playing with two toy people on the kitchen floor, in a deep, growly voice: "That was a fart well done."

[Moriah] Quotes By Mini Me

While looking at Number Two's chocolate "beard" at lunch: "You look kind of like a man! That's funny! Ha ha ha ha haaa!"

[Daniel] Car Seat Upgrade!

Today was a big day. We measured Mini Me and discovered he was big/heavy enough to move to a booster seat! So he got upgraded to his new booster and Number Two got Mini Me's old car seat, which was an upgrade for him as well. We'll try to post pictures soon but both boys were thrilled.

[Daniel] Hilarious!

To Number Two, who was playing with a flashlight, Mini Me said "Are you flashing me?"

We just about died laughing.

[Daniel] Wonderful!

Mini Me melted Moriah's heart the other day. He turned to her at lunch and, without prompting, said "Mama, you are wonderful!"

[Moriah] Ha Ha Ha!

Tonight's random dialogue brought to you by Mini Me. Dada was holding Mini Me, giving him a hug and letting him pull the chain on the ceiling fan to turn out his light for bed when, with Dada's head turned up toward the fan, Mini Me got a glimpse inside Dada's nose, and asked the following:

"Dada, you have raisins in your nose?"

Ah ha ha ha ha haaaaa!!! I nearly fell over. What a hilarious, yet completely curious and serious observation on his part. Ah yes, the great things that come out of childrens' mouths. I love it.

[Moriah] Happy 3rd Birthday, Mini Me!

Today marks the culmination of your third year of life. We are so very proud of you and all that you are. You are such a wonderful, curious, funny, happy, intelligent little boy and we enjoy so much the opportunity to watch you grow. We are so happy you had such a fun birthday. We love you! Happy birthday!

[Moriah] Number Two's Blankie

Tonight we gave Number Two a blanket to sleep with for the first time. He's 19 months old and a big, strong toddler now so we thought, especially with the weather getting colder, that he's ready for his first blankie. When I laid him down on his back in bed like usual, I started to pull up the blanket over him while announcing to him excitedly that he gets to have a blankie tonight. He stopped squirming around and stared up at me with a huge smile on his face. Then, he turned over onto his stomach, curled up into a ball and started sucking on his fingers as I tucked the blanket around his shoulders. He looked so adorable just laying there curled up into a little ball, all cozy-looking under the blanket. And the cutest thing was he didn't move at all after I covered him up. He simply lay there as if thinking, ahhhh, so cozy warm. I wish I could have gotten a picture, but I didn't want to disturb him. It was so adorable, though. So, congratulations, Number Two, on reaching yet another milestone. :)