Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Pre-move update

The past couple of weeks have been pretty busy with Mattias finishing up his PhD thesis and Ellie preparing for the big move to DC. Linus spends many afternoons and evenings on pappa's lap while he works on his dissertation.

There has been some time for fun though, mainly walks to the park with Gus. Here Linus is wearing a super cute outfit courtesy of Auntie Tricia. He puked on it less than an hour later :(


Speaking of puke, Linus has been doing a lot of it lately. And I'm not talking about cute little spit ups that are contained on a burp cloth- I'm talking projectile vomit where both Linus and mamma have to change all their clothes. Here's Linus shown after the deed:

Every time we walk by the fire station on Sanchez Street we are tempted with this sign...


Last weekend Ellie turned 28 and celebrated with the usual sushi feast. Linus was a champ and listened to us karaoke for 4 hours- all while sleeping in his bouncy chair! Congrats to Mattias who won the competition with a score of 98 on Bette Midler's "The Rose." Ellie won the Wii hula hoop contest with a all time high score of 303 spins in 60 seconds ;) We forgot to take pictures of the actual feast, but this is what we made the day after.



During the day we took a trip to the Ferry Building for an awesome lunch at Taylor's.


Mattias drinking responsibly

Here Ellie has her hands full as usual. Thanks to all who came over to celebrate with us, and for all the lovely phone messages, cards, and gifts.


***WARNING: OBSCENELY CUTE BABY NUDITY***
Just another sponge bath. We think Linus has the cutest baby 'tocks. (That's short for buttocks, for those of you not on cuteoverload.com


Next posting will include pictures from our first family vacation to Santa Cruz, the Mutt Strutt, and cute pics with the grandparents.

Friday, August 8, 2008

Our first family picture

Taken on our roof at the end of July. I think we've aged at least 5 years in the past 6 weeks...