Sad Dog!

Well, I already posted this on Flickr, but its just too funny. Here's the Riz with a walking cast on her leg. Whilst walking around Rede and Hawkedon, we noticed that the Riz was limping. It took us a quarter of a mile or so to notice that she was bleeding. What a trooper! She was much more upset that half of the group left than she was about the open wound.

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Welcome to the World Harry Mark Crawford and Kyle William Mills! These two little guys were both born on November 22nd.

Congrats Brian, Katie, and Nathan on the healthy arrival of Kyle

born at 8:28 am
6 pounds 11.3 ounces
20 inches long



Congrats to Mark and Nicola as well for their handsome son Harry, an Englishman born in North Carolina!

born at 7 pm
7 pounds 7 ounces
22 inches long



Ollie can't wait to meet you!

Carbon Copy

Which baby is a Spaulding and which baby is a Laney? We ran across this picture of Dori's nephew Alex and thought that it was uncanny, especially after the inevitable question of, "Who do you think Ollie looks like?"

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Please welcome to the world Isabella Grace Houston!
She was born on Sunday afternoon to our good friends Jason and Mary up on the frozen tundra of Anchorage, Alaska. What a beautiful baby!

Young Dog, New Tricks

Risby is very good with Ollie, even though she is not quite a year old. Whenever he is on the ground she'll come over and lay down so she can be right next to him. In my mind this is the first step toward the new command I am teaching her, which is:

"Risby....CHANGE DIAPER"

I'll let you know when she's got that one down.

Tim

PS> I never thought this would happen but I have now become the guy who chases his pets and kids around to get them in pictures together. Actually, even worse than that I am the guy who chases his pets and kids around to get them in pictures together in order to post them on the internet.

Old Man Winter

We had an awesome lingering summer this year in England, but the seasons have finally changed now. With the time change we are starting to have the very early evenings as well - that's the price you pay for having 18 hours of sunlight in June!

Some of our flowers in the garden have survived the first couple of frosts, but the spiders packed up and left after the first hint of cold. The picture is of one of the abandoned webs that they left behind.

I must admit that I have a bit of Holden Caulfield-esqe naivete about where they go in the wintertime (does a man in a truck come and pick them up?) but I have to say that I am happy to have a break from them.

They have all made such a rapid departure that the only spider I see around regularly is the one that lives behind my driver's side-view mirror. He makes a web from the mirror to the door every night which gets torn off in the wind every morning when I drive to work. This has been going on for about 6 months. Nobody said spiders were smart.

Tim

Nearly useless

Is is just me or is this the most useless bit of baby equipment ever? It is not that I disagree with the concept of putting socks on oliver, it is just that it is impossible to get them to stay on. Somehow one of them falls off immediately, but then the other one stays on all afternoon.... how is that even possible??

tim