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EEDS 3s sing from barretthall on Vimeo.

pictures from the show

first in a series of posts to catch up on the many as-yet-unblogged adventures and travels of our spring

First uploaded video to flickr - quality seems very good.

This was Atticus with his new friends the Adams girls in Atlanta, from our visit to Beckie’s old college friends Tom and Melissa. The junior set got along famously.

According to her Pop, Sofie Carlton Moricle debuted at 7 pounds, 8 ounces and 20-inches long, 3:26 AM.

Bravos’ stances through the years, on youtube

I could watch this over and over - this is a certain (very specific) kind of genius.

I miss the Crime Dog.

An overdue round-up of photos from various of the weekly meetings of the playgroup Atticus and I have been lucky enough to be part of since last winter:
my shots tagged playgroup on flickr

For copies, folks can click through to flickr and sign in w/ a flickr or yahoo ID to order from some Targets (incl. Athens) — or, just contact me. To download, links to the original (hi-res) file are on the individual pictures’ pages.

Some, though not all, of the cohort (with links to all my shots of that particular little one):

anna	ethan
finn	kate
malia	natalie
violet	atticus

 the RSS feed for my playgroup set on flickr

reba in the hot pool, originally uploaded by popofatticus.

Happy Birthday to the distaff Phalens!

Always a nice way to get over tax day.

Atticus asking me a riddle this morning:

“Why did the girl throw a stick of butter out the window?”

Me:”Hmm, I don’t know…Why?”

“Because she wanted to see a butter fly!”

(then, after a pause while looking as if he felt the story needed a little something more, and with a serious face:)

“She was a funny-looking sort of girl.”

Created with flickrSLiDR.

In which Atticus gets into the rainwater we’ve collected, acts a fool, and gathers an audience from the preschool playground next door.

Teasing Mr. Alligator from barretthall.

Doing one of his school songs for us. The monkeys got caught. Again.

Atticus goes to school from barretthall on Vimeo.

Last Friday, Atticus shared one of his favorites, “David Goes to School” by David Shannon, with Beckie’s class at the end of the school day. He knows the story pretty well, I think.

His shirt might look odd; it’s because it was Backwards Day at preschool earlier.

getting back to base from barretthall on Vimeo.

The cousins set some extra energy free on the Phalen house racecourse, a couple days after Christmas.

dropzone from barretthall on Vimeo.

a treat for gabby from barretthall on Vimeo.

Atticus gets to give a puppy treat to our new friend Gabby, who belongs to Beckie’s co-worker Marita.

five little pumpkins from barretthall on Vimeo.

Atticus’ preschool class performs last Monday - a great birthday treat for ol’ Dad.

backup site if above not working: dailymotion

fun with forces of nature at the Phalens’ on Labor Day

Gramma hides from Atticus whilst he thinks he’s hidng from her - trickery and guile wins out again

in which Atticus both tells and hears a secret, and definitively removes any and all ants from his pants

www.islostnewthisweek.com

Atty buckles down intently and carefully to the task at hand - evening, Easter, 2006.

Atticus’ first easter egg hunt.

Atty trying to get Dad to watch the garbage trucks video *again*, and Dad putting him off

first game of catch between grandson and grandfather

From my dad, Lionel’s, or Gramppa’s (Beckie questioned this spelling, but it seemed to me to be what we were saying), visit last weekend - on Sunday, the day we had for play, when none of us were sick :O .

Unfortunately, Atty was sick on Saturday and both Gramppa and I were under the weather on Monday (he left on Tuesday morning). We had fun, nevertheless — Atticus really enjoys having visitors on his home turf now, and quickly progressed into asking when we could wake up Gramppa (since Gramppa and all the rest of the nearby sensible people weren’t up quite as early as he was). A picture set from the visit can be found here.

at the reception: lettin’ it all hang out

In which the wedding goers are shown clearly loving rock ‘n’ roll.

And what is more rock than beating compliant audience members about the head and neck with your guitar?

Coming soon: another video, in which several revelers are mighty mighty and lettin’ it all hang out at the reception

…which is what it was here, more than a blizzard — I mean, it was a “blizzard”, but it wasn’t a Blizzard, not for Boston. We didn’t even top 20 inches - c’mon!

–more found here–

trying out video using dailymotion

link to whole set

vintage kid - a photoset on Flickr

old children’s books

the (big) retrokid pool

As happened with some of the great stuff above, seeing some image that occupies a tiny, remote part of your memory from 30 yrs ago is thrilling but peculiar, too.

via McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

From: Confidence D. Riblet
…

With gratitude for all,
Hon. Ben Odaku III

The National Championship for ultimate starts Thursday in Sarasota (which apparently is OK after Wilma). My team, Death or Glory, comes in seeded 8th out of 16, our lowest in a long, long time. That said, with all our players playing and healthy, this is our best team in the last couple of years, so the possibility of upsets is pretty good. Personally, I feel as healthy and focused as I have since 2001 or so.

Beckie and Atty are manning the homefront - he’s still a little young to understand why Dad is leaving him to go run around over there, plus he likes to, er, get in on the action himself

Here are some links for following the action:
updating scores
tournament site
the DoG site (that I put together)

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2005: via BBC news
a peregrine falcon sweeping into a flock of starlings, by Italian Manuel Presti

aka, from September, when our camera w/ videos was still barely alive:

big green balloon fun

another Chomo pursuit in the backyard

…such as they are

Some of the words Atty has (that at least we can understand):
downstairs (upon waking up) (”d’stairs”)
bears (referring to the bears of various sorts with whom he shares his crib)
banana (used to be”‘nana” and arguably first word - now, somehow, “lala!”)
kitty (”keeee”)
Sarah (”Sssar”, plus a big smile)
Momma, Dada
cheese
mmmmilk
Blue’s Clues (favorite show)(”Boo’s Coos”)
woom woom (for trucks)

Beck, others?

Anyway, a fun moment for Dad the other day when I couldn’t tell if he was ready for his nap or not: he walked over to the stairs that lead up to his room, pointed, and said “ups-bears” — as clear a communication as I could hope for.

TV Squad on Lost, ep2

Moviefone: ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ Movie Exclusive

Watched the Quicktime version. Covers a lot of ground and looks fantastic: still with an edge akin to PoA, but with an apparent return to the “bigger” production feel of the 1st 2. I suspect we’ll have to wait till the movie to get a glimpse of Voldemort.