Last Weekend of the first month of 2010

Friday I took Dylan up to the Capulin snow play area, just above the bottom of the ski area in the sandias. He did not really seem to like sledding but was excited about throwing snowballs and making snow angels.

On Saturday we all headed out to Socorro with a bunch of folks to do some climbing. I took a bunch of photos of Matt L on Sinister Dane and Benny on Full Penetration.

Here is Matt

and here is Benny,

Dylan was a really good boy all day without a nap and entertained himself really well at the cliff by throwing rocks and digging in the dirt. OH and making dirt "sand" angels, need less to say he got filthy.

On Sunday I headed out for a 100km ride. It was really cold and did not seem to warm up making me feel stiff the whole time. Add to that the perpetual 2-3 mph headwind for the whole ride and it was a frustrating experience.

New Year, new post

Happy New Years...a little late.
Here is a video of Dylan at home and his reaction to hearing the garage door open.

Now here are some shots of Dylan for your viewing pleasure.

Chasing ducks at the ZOO,

Hanging out with Komo, Chris' dog, in the bushes at Socorro,Doing some spelunking at Three Gun Springs,Investigating a small bush at the Playground, one of the cliffs at White Rock, outside of Los Alamos of National Lab and Nuke fame,

and playing with some rocks at the base of the wall, nice cliff with lots of flat space and trees near the wall. Many smaller rocks for Dylan to play with and on and no big drop offs untill you wander a couple hundred feet from the wall and there is the 1000+ foot drop down into the Rio Grande Gorge.

Merry X-mas

Hope everyone has a great holiday season.

Right now Linda's family, all 11 of them are in town and staying with us. The house is pretty crowded. In addition some of their friends are here as well adding another 4 people to the group during the days.

The kids have all been learning to ski up at Sandia and having a blast. Linda has gotten in a couple of days of skiing and I a couple of days of snowboarding. It's been quite a while since either of has has done snow sports and my experience was pretty limited anyway.

We all just finished opening presents this morning. Dylan's favorite seemed to be a shinny bag that one of his gifts came in, pretty typical really. He would put it on his head and play hide and seek.

Dylan is having a blast playing with all his cousins and being doted on by all the adults.

The whole gang made it to the ABQ Bio Park for teh River of Lights Festival which was pretty cool. They build a bunch of light sculptures, some of which move and light the Children's Fantasy Garden, it is pretty fun to walk around in the dark and see the lights, literally millions.

Music Time

Today Dylan's school had a class brunch for the holidays. So even though it was not his day to go to school he got to see his teachers anyway. The food was pretty good, it was a pot luck, I brought milk . . . not much of a cook. The kids all had fun running around and playing with instruments. Dylan really likes most all instruments and was the one who opened the boxes that had the bells and symbol rattles. Then he got to sit and play the Ukulele.

He must have been halfway decent since he had an audience, yet he was unhappy with what he was hearing so he tried to re tune the Uke.

After the party was over we headed to the Clay's house so he could hang out with Jaxon West. Happy Birthday Jaxon, he turned 2 today. They had a blast playing in Jaxon's room and had a lunch of Mac Cheese and roast beef.

Full day for the little one.

Second try with the Wave Bubble

Here is his reaction the second time we subjected him to the bubble.

Watch the video in the previous post first.

Old shots and video from Thanksgiving

Here are a couple of shots of Dylan from early last month.
Nice black eye. . .
Sweet new house slippers. . .

Yes the black eye was just when Dylan got out of hand with a marker, but it's still funny, since he did not actually get hurt.

Over Thanksgiving we headed to the SF Bay Area to vivit my family. We made it to the Monterray Bay Aquarium and the California Academy of Sciences, both very cool places to check out regaurdles of it you have kids or not.

This is some video of Dylan's reaction at the Aquarium to a glass bubble that the wave surges push water over. This is the first time we subjected him to it.

Here is a video of something that Dylan only did for about a week. I have no idea where he learned it, not school since he had not been but once for the previous 5 week so it must have been some adult.

Here are some shots from our stay in Austin, mostly stuff from Halloween since this was really Dylans first Halloween. He was too young and not walking yet last year. Here we are with a couple of the cousins, Brian and Cady on our way to a Halloween party at Cady's school.

As you can see Dylan was dressed as a Chinesse boy. Here he is diligently making a mask, marker in one hand and stickers in the other.

We did not really think about how cruel this costume could be. If you 've ever felt the fabric of this type of clothing you know that is is super slick. Here Dylan is longing to climb up the bouncy slide but keeps slipping back down. Eventually I helped him up a few times and he had a blast.

After the slide Dylan got snakes painted on his face, Cady had some face painting done earlier and Dylan was curious about it.

Here is the whole crew of cousins and a few friends that went trick or treating. Dylan who had never had candy was determined to get as much as possible and was the third to last person back out of the group.

And what Halloween post would be complete with out some gore. Lindas fingers with some sort of bite. This is actually about a week after she first noticed them and after the swelling became more localized in just her fingers, yes her whole hand swelled up. She has no idea where she got them but first noticed them the day she arrived in Austin so it was in the hotel in Louisville, the airplane, airport or in Austin at some point.Here is another scary sight for those climbers that are non parents, the crag nursery. On most days that Dylan was at the cliff in the Red River Gorge and Spain for that matter he was not the only child. We saw infants as young as 3 months out at the crag.

More about our trip to come soon.