Last Post Before Hawai'i

Howdy folks,  not much to report here.  school's out, work is done, laura's been taking care of the cars, WIC, and us.  Sienna is up to 13#13oz, which is a lot.  For those that don't know, that's approximately 38 bounces in the arms before muscle fatigue sets in and I drop the baby (there's some variation for how quickly I drop the baby depending on how much I've been working out).  Two weeks ago I didn't drop the baby until 44 bounces.  But laura's getting us packed for Hawai'i, where omie and loonie have already landed.  I'm going ice climbing tomorrow with Walter from RMI, and am pretty psyched about that.  I asked him if he would be up for climbing everything, and he said sure.  so we're gunna do that.  Also found out that I got interviews at tufts, vermont, dartmouth, and UW.  very exciting.  As laura pointed out, that's 5 for 8, with no rejects thus far.  I don't know what I've done, but I've gotten quite lucky. now just need to figure out travel arrangements. 
anyway, sienna is well, though I fell like I'm jsut repeating myself.  she's more alert, mroe aware, more opinionated, more playful, more awesome.  Oh yeah, forgot to mention that she's 18 on the awesome scale.  so that's good, in the 90th percentile. 

I've been working on her ability to use the force.
It's hard to tell in this picture, but she's actully lifting
me into the air and I'm hovering above her.  She couldn't
quite do the whole couch, so we settled on this.  By the way
the t-shirt don't lie.



Sienna just finished up making her own stocking. She also patched up
laura's old one.



We call this hat the Astro-Baby hat. Sienna Armstrong, at your service



Loves the Keys



Yesterday, we went to boulder for a pre-christmas christmas.  lots of turkey, lots of toys, and santa even made an appearance.  Nice!

Who doesn't like movies?

Awesomeness 1

Awesomeness 2

Unparalleled awesomeness

Tyson's Thanksgiving Visit

Tyson came out on friday, and stayed until monday.  unfortunately, i had to work sat/sun, but we had some fun anyway.  we got to show off her peeing in the toilet abilities, laura's hiking in the snow abilities, sienna's ambivelance to the cold and snow, and laura's vegan pancakes.  deelish.

This is what it's like to hold her

this is what it's like for tyson to hold you

the coach at work.

Lolly and Brad's wedding-Update

We finally got a hold of more pictures from the colorado wedding reception in september. so we can update a much better posting.

there are the cuties, looking much better
than their zombie versions from my last post

this was the theme of that weekend.  keep sienna out of the sun
which now feels really stupid since it's too cold to really go
outside, and probably will be for another six months.



Doin the goo-goo gaga dance (alex is).  and yes, sienna is asleep

 In other news: so will from bowdoin came to visit in september. I forget if I mentioned that, but he left us with eight beers.  well, just last tuesday I finished them.  finally, finished them.  The way I take it, one's drinking can do one of two things post-baby.  go way up, or go way down.  I fell into the latter category, though laura went the other way, despite my pleading with her to be sensible.