Photogenic HJ

Harper, who won't sit still for family portraits, has suddenly started requesting that I take her picture posed with her stuffed animals. She usually labels the players involved, as well. As in, "I'm the mommy and this (this being a stuffed monkey) is the baby".

Harper, too fast for the camera...





And Harper as "Mommy" with her stuffed animals...


In this one, the monkey has a baby, too. The stuffed dog. Harper knows nothing about genetics.


What kills me is the perfect smile in each. And she would have sat for five minutes until I took these pics!


PS - Check out this fun little add on from Firefox. It tells you what I was listening to when I started this blog (like an hour ago), and below that, what I'm listening to right this second! Look for it in upcoming blogs. Or don't!

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Was playing: The Prodigy - Mindfields
via FoxyTunes

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Now playing: R.E.M. - You Are The Everything
via FoxyTunes

Classy Brunch

My mother is in town for my birthday. (Oh, and this is McCall speaking.... Er, well it's me typing really. But let's move on, shall we? My/McCall's mom is in LA and we all (Kyle, Myself, Moon and Harper Jo) decided to have a nice Sunday brunch at Elements Kitchen in Pasadena... Where Moon, who goes by Lorena there, works. (are you with me, or am I blogging too late?)

Anyhow, Kyle ended up staying home with a napping Marley Man. (I thnk he was secretly very thankful to have the time "off" - brunch isn't really a Kyle-kind-of-thing anyhoo.) So, it's me, my mom, Moon/Lorena, & Harper Jo. A girl's bruncheon, right?

Yeah, well, there is clearly a darn good reason why fancy brunch places don't have a kids menu... Or Crayons. Within about 2.3 minutes of her syrup laden (bad idea, both for the sticky factor and the inevitable, impending sugar rush/crash) breakfast arriving infront of her, Harper Jo had managed to make finger puppets out of the fresh raspberries and get bright red berry juice all over my mom's white leotard! (Why my 65 year old mother still wears white leotards and blue jeans ala the late-great Farrah, is best saved for another blog. And the fact that I, the supposed "responsible parent", grabbed for my iPhone, to take a picture, in a moment I shouldve been grabbing for napkins... Well that's a lecture you can feel free to give me in the comments section, below.

In the meantime, here's the photo I got:




-- PS My mom paid, but Moon and I left an extra $10 to the tip - that table (and the whole floor under/around it) was a complete disaster!

Marley the Patient

Last week Marley got his one year vaccinations. Not surprisingly he quickly spiked a fever and we had to take him in for a quick check out and some lab work.

He had to wear a hospital gown, and though McCall and I were concerned while we waited for the doctor, Marley seemed fairly relaxed...

My first try at making a music video...

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Well Educated

Goodbye Gramps, originally uploaded by McKyle.

I ain't scared of no lil' doggy!

Marley, like his sister before him, is intriuged by very loud, small dogs.


See Harper Jo's similar reaction here:

-- Post From My iPhone

Happy Pancakes

A long time ago we started feeding Harper Jo frozen mini pancakes (yes, she actually eats some of them frozen, she calls them "chili pancakes"). At first she just ate them plain, then somewhere along the line McCall started decorating them with smiley faces made out of frosting. So now almost every morning Harper wakes up and asks for happy pancakes.

To keep things interesting we have started to mix it up a bit. We got some larger sized pancakes and added more colors of frosting. So below are some pics from earlier in the week. Harper asked for a flower instead of smiley faces.


McCall and I did this one together, the red gloop on the leaf is a ladybug, courtesy of McCall.



It's possible Harper was more excited about her Elmo plate than the masterpiece in frosting we presented her with.