Michael’s Two Cents

Here’s my very smart two year old (actually almost two and a half!) on November 4th before the final election results came in.

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Julia (mommy) made a little video with captions, sound effects, and everything on iMovie last night. It stars our daughter Katie and nephew Akash. Atashi, my sister-in-law had a big fund-raising event to host in San Francisco for Narkia the non-profit she runs and needed an overnight baby sitter. So… Akash came to play and [...]

Yesterday was our 12th wedding anniversary and we took a trip with Katie, Grammie, and Pop to the pumpkin patch. Katie got her first pony ride and Mommy did a cool video.

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Julia put Katie in her Halloween costume today for fun and photos. At first she was kind of upset. I guess it didn’t feel very comfortable but then she got into showing off a little. Cute huh?

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Julia put together this little video last night. It’s of Katie playing under her little blanket and Murphy, our little dog, playing with her. Be sure to keep your eye open for Katie’s little foot sneaking out from under the blanket looking for a kiss from Murphy. Very cute.

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Sundays are nice, reading with Katie and Breakfast with the Beatles on kozt.com.

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I made some good progress on the tiny free house this weekend (actually Friday and Saturday). It’s been a real struggle making time to go up to the farm to work on it. Here are some photos of Katie helping out her dad
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Katie is playing with her sticker book while I post on tinyfreehouse.com by iPhone. Now she’s taking then off. Ouch!

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We’re having a nice Saturday I also have to say how much I like this iPhone wordpress application for quick mobile blogging.

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And this is why I loved reading books with my little girl. She’s a blast!

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