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I don’t think I mentioned that Elizabeth’s Aunt Kirsten is also posting photos to auroralux. She took some of Elizabeth swimming last weekend. Kirsten’s Photos
Yesterday, Elizabeth spotted the swimming suit coming out of the washing machine and insisted on “going swimming.” At first I couldn’t figure out what she wanted. She thrust the suit at […]

Is anyone else but me disturbed by the fact that my pregnant belly shots have the most hits in our auroralux gallery? Last count, the belly shots had 111 hits! Elizabeth’s first week - the first photos of her- only got 48 hits.
As I looked back on the photos yesterday, I do realize that […]

We just got back from our first long car trip as a family. We drove
almost 12 hours up to DC to Schuyler and Heidi’s wedding. We left
home at 3:45 am to ensure that Elizabeth would sleep for a good bit.
It wasn’t till we were on the road that I started trying to figure
out when I […]

It’s probably time for an Elizabeth update…
First of all, she’s talking. It seems like as soon as she learned to
walk, she focused all her energy on learning to communicate. She
started with “bye-bye” and jumped right to “thankyou” or as she says
“Tah Kah.” She has her own way of consistently saying about 7 words
now. Her favorite […]

I’ll be the first to admit that I haven’t posted in awhile. To give
you an idea why, let me just run through the events of yesterday
morning.
7:45 Elizabeth and I emerge from the bedroom in time to witness
Coozie barfing up a fur ball
7:50 Clean up cat barf
7:55 Start coffee
8:00 Pick up Elizabeth to change her diaper. […]

Elizabeth decided to conduct a scientific experiment at the Evan’s
Diner this morning to determine the blast radius of a coffee creamer.
The only problem is that she didn’t warn us beforehand. I was holding
her in my lap and Frank was across the booth. Suddenly there was a
loud POP and I was spattered with a cold substance. […]