We had heat and we had humidity, summer feels like it has officially begun. The pool has been ready for swimming for a few days now, but today most of us got in. Silas wasn’t so sure about the pool to start with… It didn’t take long to have fun,...
Petra emailed me about a week ago that she would be coming in for a quick visit. I quickly informed mom on the news and suggested she make a chocolate cake, knowing Petra loves mom’s homemade cakes. Silas, who had never met Petra yet, was already considering her a soul...
Miranda took Rubi to the doctors today and she is doing great and gained 14 ounces! Rubi is a good baby, she still sleeps at night, except late nights, when she likes to keep mommy up late. She still is so strong, and likes to hold her head up and...
I took Laura, Silas, and Cammy to Annapolis to see the Blue Angels. This year, I think they did a lot more things than last year. We all had fun!
We’ve been keeping Silas pretty busy these days. Today he had great fun with a daddy long legs. And later, his nana got him a bat and ball, and well, it was a bit confusing to him, but he had fun!
“If you’re religious, it’s like looking at God.” ~ George Smoot, announcing his COBE’s findings in 1992, and Nobel Prize in Physics Winner “The significance of this [discovery] cannot be overstated. They have found the Holy Grail of Cosmology.” ~ Michael Turner, University of Chicago Astrophysicist “…the most important discover...
From PBS.org Bell Labs built a giant antenna in Holmdel, New Jersey, in 1960. It was part of a very early satellite transmission system called Echo. By collecting and amplifying weak radio signals bounced off large metallic balloons high in the atmosphere, it could send signals across long distances. Within...
The weather of late has been cloudy, rainy, gray, and chilly. So today, it was still all those things minus the rain. Since Silas has had precious little outside time, Laura and I took him to the park and it ended up being a little “Nature walk.” Silas liked exploring...
This morning I went out to the living room to find Silas holding his baby sister so sweet!
Listen and learn some of the elements driving up the costs of health care. Carol Plato, an executive director of Martin Memorial Medical Center in Florida, gives a briefing on the specific costs and liabilities the hospital has incurred while treating illegal immigrants. After listening to that, makes the next...
Another article from George Will: Greece represents a perverse aspiration — a society with (in the words of Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan) “more takers than makers,” more people taking benefits from government than there are people making goods and services that produce the social surplus that funds government. By...
When I had my own children, their first bath was a big event. So it went for RubÃ… I was in my room when Miranda alerted me, in the case I wanted to get my camera, well sure I did! As you might guess, Silas was rather curious about this...
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind” ~Albert Einstein It was 1916 and Albert Einstein didn’t like where his calculations were leading him. If his theory of General Relativity was true, it meant that the universe was not eternal but had a beginning. Einstein’s calculations indeed were...
Only five days old, and Rubi already wants to hold her head up! Silas is a good big brother who wants to love on his baby sister. A kiss from Silas is the best!
Dads often get pushed aside during all the chaos surrounding a new baby in the house. So I wanted to share this moment, when Enric was looking so thoughtfully at his daughter…
So mom had an appointment with an Ear Nose and Throat doctor and Linda decided to take her. That gave Linda a bonus for her visit, a chance to see our baby girl just three days old! Laura and I decided that Silas needed a neat “big brother” present, and...
And she received a happy and anxious welcome from us all! Solutions Fabricating sent a balloon and flowers! I was so happy to hold and love her!
This morning, I got word that Enric and Miranda were headed to the hospital to have the baby. Not hardly a half hour later, Elena Rubi was born! They would like her to be called Rubi. Elena Rubí Day of Birth: May 12, 2010 Time of Birth: 5:37 AM Weight:...
Yesterday, my actual birthday, I had a very relaxing day. We had a nice family dinner together, ordering take-out from Texas Roadhouse. I got even more presents! Petra sent a designer doormat. I know what attracted her to it, the art work is tremendous, and the subject is birds! So...
We’ve been trying to get Silas around a few parks. He’s been to Jacobsville Park, the “airplane” park, Kinder Farm Park, and today we went to Lake Waterford Park. When we got there, we saw friends, but they were on their way out. Silas soon wanted to try out the...
Friends of Enric and Miranda, Craig and Leanna Comstock, stopped in from their busy life to pay a visit. They brought their two sweet children, Rebekah and Jared. They arrived right at Silas’s nap time, so Rebekah played… Silas woke up eventually though. Rebekah blows bubbles. Laura reads the children...
