Happy New Year to all our friends and family! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season, and if you'd like to share with our quiet one, here are some photos. This was our first real Christmas in New York, and we established the new tradition of the disco Christmas tree, made some cookies, and had fun chatting with relatives on Skype.





Here is a video from Josephine's school show:

November 2008

Hi. We had a quiet vegetarian Thanksgiving, and went to the Central Park view, did some crafts around the house, and went to some unphotographable public art in a Manhattan park. Plus, Grammy and Grandpapa (whom Jojo calls "Popop") came in for a cameo! Enjoy!

Cousin Lauren Cooks!

Hey y'all, here is a cute little vid from my sister Julie of her kids Harrison and Lauren, to interested parties who may have missed it. (Looks better if you keep your browser window small.)

Doctor's Visit

Quick note to let you know that Josephine is 36.5 inches tall (ie able to see tempting things at kitchen counter height) and 30 pounds, which are both 97% for height and weight. According to online calculators, Your girl will likely be 5 ft. 11 in. at age 18. Wowza, no need for heels!

Anyway the more salient issue is that at the doc's, Jojo got a flu shot, a TB test, and a blood sample withdrawn. So, three needles. I was expecting the worst, but she dispassionately watched the needle go in each time and never cried, never winced, never whelped, nothing. The nurse said she'd never seen such a great reaction in her thirty years of jabbing babies... such a tough kid!

Halloween 2008

Here are our halloween pictures (among a few others). First Josephine's school had a party and a parade through the neighborhood, then our co-op had a big festival. Too much sugar!

Hey Ya'll

It has been a loooong time! What happened was is that our camera broke - slightly untrue, we stupidly let Josephine "hold it" and it lasted all of about 10 seconds of that. Anyhoo, we're back on track with a new one and have a few random snaps for your perusal; more to come soon as we figure out the dials and whatnot.

Also, we have birthday pictures, too. There was also a little party at school - it has been a sugarlicious month so far. We are now getting really serious about toothbrushing.

Movies to come ASAP!

It's been a while!

And we have missed you all. Here are a couple of movies made in the month of May - we had a lovely one.



And here's this one:

April 19, 2008

Hello. We've got a mess of photos here -- our friends Robert and Mary at a rawk club, a visit with our neighbor Roe, dangerous play with Quinton the cat, a squirrel enjoying a slice at our playground -- but most of these were taken on the way to and in Battery Park City in lower Manhattan last weekend. JoJo saw a good many boats, tall buildings, sports, and white people. Most of these are still a mystery to her, but I think she's catching on. The Pope was in town, which for some reason made the helicopter traffic heavy (Popemoflies? Holycopters?), and that occupied a lot of J's time.

Lots of good Mother/Daughter shots here, for a change! Enjoy.

Spring is coming, we think

Hey everybody,

How's it going? Jojo says "hi" to everyone. We have pictures of all of you guys (the only people who see this website are familiy) so Jojo is getting to know you, as every night we wave to every person in the pictures before going to bed.

New pictures are available here - it's getting harder and harder to take a picture of the child, as she is getting quite grabby with the camera. Gotta sneak up on her.

Jojo in the snow

A few days ago most of the USA was awash in a sea of intense winter weather. Here Mike documents Jospehine's take on the matter.