Tuesday, October 28, 2008

6 months -and EATING!

Sean is 6 months old now - we can hardly believe it! The craziest thing for us is that he appears to love food. As soon as he starts to anticipate it (when you get near a high chair) he starts to get frantic until you start feeding him - and if you wait too long between bites he lets you know. This may be perfectly normal for most, but it is a little bizarre for us. Don't get us wrong - this is not a complaint, we are thrilled! Keira has already started watching this - she sometimes seems to think he is nuts, and sometimes she becomes more interested herself. We are also going to have to start baby proofing the house again as he is going to crawl any day now and is sitting up fairly well on his own. He is still the happiest little guy I have ever met!

Keira is also doing well. Her walking and balancing is getting better and better each day. She is determined to walk everywhere, unless she is exhausted and then she will let you carry her. A new quirk - when we get her out of the car and let her walk into the house on her own she insists on using the front door - we find this odd as we ALWAYS go in through the garage. So, we let her go, and someone has to go through and let her in. She is always giggling when you open the door - seems to find this quite amusing. We have also been working on potty training - not seriously, but we put her on whenever possible. She always does a little something and diapers have less and less in them. I find this happening so soon with so little communication very encouraging!

Can't wait to see what happens next month!!

Friday, October 24, 2008

Aren't all men cr8ted equal?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The proposed amendment for prop 8 states:

Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

How on earth does this match with "all men are created equal" or that they have the unalienable right to "the pursuit of happiness"?

Please vote No on this nonsense. If you are choosing not to vote, can I at least convince you to cast your vote for me since I'm not yet allowed to have one?

PS The Yes on Prop 8 commercials make me nauseous. This has nothing to do with out children's education, however it has everything to do with equality, freedom and the removal of bigotry. What you want to do with your church is your churches choice. Please don't force your religious viewpoints on me by attempting to embody them in the state constitution. According to wikipedia we're spending $40 million+ on this insanity....

PPS And this blatant attempt at extortion by the 'Yes for Prop 8' crowd is just sleazy. By all means, please print the list of organizations supporting NO on 8, and I will gladly go out of my way to give them my business.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

San Francisco Oyster Race 2008

So as many of you know due to my last minute pledge drive, I signed up to do the San Francisco Oyster Urban Adventure Race. This race bills itself as the ultimate urban adventure race. Up until now all of my adventure races have been in the great outdoors where there's bears and stuff, so I figured this should be a piece of cake. What's that about the ego and the fall? Read on...