Ohhh ahhhh

update

As things stand so far we'll start with the Birthday party for Claire.(just about were we left off)

Everything went well. we had a mix of neighbors and family.

Everyone got along and things were for the most part all about Claire(at her birthday party. dude no way).

Claire seemed to enjoy herself. she certainly did enjoyed her cupcake as we didnt give her free reign on the party cake (specially designed by Daryls MoM) . It was the shape of a lady bug which is the unofficial design of Claire. She even has a ladybug piggy bank now which matches the lady bug nightlight .

(thats not Claire and im sure shes wasnt included in with ours. Runs to check the garbage cans)

Heck ill do photos i guess its late enough. in for a penny and all that. ok so starting with pictures now. expect bumps. "HC SVNT DRACONES"

Also Kristin ran a 4th of July 5 mile race sponsored by buffalo chips (sounds like something you would let dry out and use for fires on the Oregon trail)

heres some pictures

Patriotic!

Passing action!

Race was so close Claire was nibbling her nails

But mommy got kisses in the end

I forgot to put up some of the birthday pictures as well

so here they are.

Mommy talk to the hand.

I was so joking. you should have seen the look on your face. deep belly laugh. hahaha

Festive. of course if you had seen the backyard the weekend before then this is quite the miracle.

The Princess's

Hair bows.(which in the earlier pictures you can see them in use. cough cough)

The master works cake.

The life and times of a cupcake.

(it was like 10 minutes from start to finish of the cupcake)

mmmm. murrr mmph mmmun mmmmm mmd!!!!

How many calories did you say this had?!?

Um waiter !!! WAITER ! Check please?

we were also able to use one of Claires new toys.

A pool!

its a little blow up . it looks pretty cool once blown up.

cant even tell its a kiddie pool. (rocks are a little pretentious)

ok heres the real pool

Claire as you can see was in love. (shes likes everything)

Claires attempt to get Daddy in the pool.

..... oh also Daddy went and installed kid safety locks on almost all the doors in the kitchen.

(ones left purposely so she can still play)

Claire making sure Daddy and Mommy know which cupboard door was left unlocked (purposely)

and also making sure theres nothing left to "share"

Daddies making no sense this late so hes going to bull ahead.

We got a new coffee table, but he didnt want to settle for any old coffee table so we went with a fabric (soon to be pleather) button tufted cocktail ottoman.

its kind of like this

but with out the skirts (although thats an idea).

Unfortunately we have to re-cover it so itll match better. the good news its that this give Daryl some free reign on the redesign as theres some tiny flaws that need to be fixed. The bonus of having a Giant ottoman for a coffee table is that it feels good to kick up the feet and Claire can head butt the dang thing and everything is good. plus its about time we stared cleaning up some things at the Goodman manor.

ah geez its late and D has got to work tomorrow. Blah so Good night to all

oh before i forget

Last but not lease by a far shot.

Guest pictures. we love them so send them our way.

Happy Claire

What no more presents!! Claire.

The entire Goodman clan in this picture

Mommy, Claire and Daddies BOOOTYA!

oh ps ps Daryl changed the design of the site. small stuff but let us know what you think.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAIRE!!

Its Claire's big day today!

She got to open one present and it was the rocking horse.

Day care has been on vacation for the week so Kristin has been watching Claire and Daryl took off Thursday and Friday for the Big day and a couple of appointments.

Kristin even brought Claire to Daryls work to get some lunch as a family.

We even have a guest photo on this update. yah

on with the pictures

update

So ...

we are going to do a similar format as before.

Update first and then another update later once. Daryl can get all the pictures in order.

Last we left off our intrepid trio Daryl was going to go to a competition. Thats since happened and boy was it a learning experience.

First off Daryl has learned a thing or to about the food services at the competitions sponsors hotel.

For one, the parking structure is close enough that a trunk full of ice chest full of food is a great idea. Luckly they had not so crazy expensive salads (as long as you exclude the $38 champagne brunch they had going on). Secondly, its more of a gaming comp. (ie nerds galore and thats saying something coming from a mini painter) thirdly, no matter how you prepare for the event its still 12hrs gone.

The last thing i learned is, when i enter next year, im entering in the masters class. They had 2 classes. one being the open class (i entered this one) and the other the master class(this was new and very ominous sounding). Daryl was nervous as all get out and it was even worst when they announced that the comp would be judged also on a website, Cool mini or not, which is internation.

Gulp.

Turns out Daryl was too late for the CMON thing, but he did win a speed painting event which netted him $10 bucks and a limited mini. (ohh ahhh) Daryl also won a silver and a bronze for the minis he brought. Being in the open category he got Medallions instead of the busts, but its still a silver and a bronze. they also gave away a bunch of swag which was really cool(totally paid for the trip)

The last thing which was kind of cool was Daryl saw our kitty cornered neighbor Chris at the comp (he was there to play). He He small world.

New Claire stuff

Claire can stand without hands (more of a causal lean)
Claire is almost too big for the scale we have hence the sporadic weight measurements.

Claire has learned to clap ( been a while but im not sure i mentioned it) and Claire has been able to high five ( more like a low five) for 2 weeks (around when daddy won the comp. coincidence?!?)

Claire has been on a big person diet for a while also. (ie small portions of table foods)

Claire had her first time in a restaurants high chair (umekos of course) and loved it.

Little news last week. the Goodmans were laid low by a big stomach flu. Claire was patient zero so to speak on Thursday. Daryl thought it was a food related sickness until Kristin contracted it

on Friday and finally it got Daryl on Saturday morning. Fortunately were all better (knock on wood) and just in time to get ready for Claires big 1 Birthday.
The Goodmans have been running around trying to finalize the house for our guests next week for Claire big day.

and with that .......

Oh hell with it heres some pictures.

Oh great! she doesnt like them on her feet but on her hands. awesome.!

Claire went clipclopping around the house like this

Its not super easy to see, but Claire is actually standing on the back cushion of the couch about 6 inches off the couch itself (its the deltoids. ive seen her working those out)

OH no caught

also a kind of off topic warning is that we have about a dozen docile bees kicking it in the backyard. dont bee afraid and come see what all the buzz is about. we just wanted to Bee sure everyone knew Beefore they got here. The picture Beelow was taken a while ago Beefore some of the Bees split. again they just kind of sit around. theres some sign of honey comb but not anything that could bee a hive let alone a hovel. The part of the fence theyre on is coming down (i know i know GHETTO) but a bunch of bees kind of makes repairs difficult.

Anywho

i bid you all

Magandang gabi

PS ill update again when i really can organize the pictures

PLOG!

Ok so here are the pictures i promised, but first some of the things that i remembered.

Kristin and I have been going to Panda express which is the Mcdonalds of Chinese cuisine for a while now. Nothing says gourmet Chinese food like scuba diving panda bears. .....which i cant find anywhere on their site anymore. ( i swear they have stickers on the doors at the place) anywho. well since we have been going there theres a burger joint called Habit burger that Kristin and I have been wanting to try. So last weekend we went and tried it and were pleasantly surprised. Its like a cross between Wendys and In and out. Daryl also got to try Peets coffee and tea (they actually have a healthy selection of Tea. Very cool) and was not surprised to find it not so different (except for the tea) from Starbucks. The names are more eccentric (freddo vs frappicino). The one cool thing is that they have bulk of coffee and tea so its "fresh".

On another note the Goodmans recently purchased a Baby Prison ....ok ok ok its a SUPER baby play yard, but doesnt this picture makes it look like the guy is laughing at the baby. Not the best sales tool

Its a way to keep the cats safe and for Kristin and i to get a buffer so we can properly baby proof the house.

on to actually good pictures

Im breaking outta this joint.

Because going for a walk is the coolest thing ever.

Claire trying to jump from the bed to get daddy's camera.

Violet is about to get smacked down

Daddy secretly check for spinach in his teeth.

Also yes Claire is probably the most mildly tempered baby theres is. She almost always happy and if shes not she just gives you the Fuzzy eyebrow.

IE

I swear i saw someone burst into flames just about were she was staring.

and with that i bid you a

Спокойной ночи (Spokoinoi nochi)

SO.

SOoooo im just going to post some stuff, no pics this time as i need to just update the blog and i have been neglecting to do that.

Were to start. ok

So Claire is around 19lbs and 4 ozs last time we weighted her (starting to be tough to do)

Claire can now do the baby shuffle (crawl properly). shes always "crawled" but now she does on all fours crawling. Claire also pulled herself into a standing posistion and is getting a 4th tooth (2 on top and 2 on bottom CHOMPERS)

Which of course means BABY PROOFING. ugh i have a video of the said crawling but all the pics and videos will come to fruition in a day or two.

The Goodmans had the great american Garage sale last weekend with Mike and Doc. It was good times with fun had by all. (we hope) money was made and people watched. Many thanks to Kristin for making it possible (yard sale and the backyard)

Daryl has been tearing up the backyard (literally) to get it ready for Claire's Big 1 Birthday next month. Something totally cleansing about getting rid of poisonous plants and bringing in bright flowery ....flowers.

This upcoming weekend is the big paint-off for Daryl which means crunch time. One can hope he brings back something other than and empty wallet. Although things dont look so good as a lot of comps on the West Coast aren't around this year.

Lame thing to end it on but funny story. So we have had the same microwave for ... a while now and the other day Kristin was heating up something when it goes "ZIIIItch" and stops so of course we check for metal and find nothing. all the lights are on so Daryl says "looks ok try it again" so Kristin does and after a couple of seconds it goes "ziiiiitch" .... 'ZIIIITCH" and smoke starts pouring out of this thing like its smoke machine of course Daryl runs over shuts it off and yanks it from the wall plug. takes it outside to the backyard where unfortunately it living for a sec.

yeah

so thats that.

if i have anything to add and/or i remember something i add it to the PLOG (picture blog = ie this blog) in a couple days.

Gute Nacht

So i bungled the trying to update bimonthly for a reason. That reason was that Kristin was running a half marathon today (13.1 miles) and i wanted to include some pictures from the event itself into the update.

a taste of the amount of people these werent the first runners nor were they the last. there was twice as many behind this group.

eye catching :D

Claire has had her first swing ride last weekend and even though she's got a bit to fill in before she can truly enjoy it. she had fun.

Big swings

coming back.

Claire weights in around 18lbs and several ounces.

She now has the most annoying habit of rolling over and kneeling whilst she sleeps making it difficult for mommy and daddy to keep a eye on her. Her rolling ability is getting crazy good to were we have to watch her constantly. She does the roll in a crazy gymnasts way getting onto all fours, then doing a semi splits going from there to a sitting position then falling to the left or the right onto her stomach. and rinse and repeat.

well

everyone have a good up coming mothers day and

have a great night

finally a new post (kind of)

"the sickness" has past through the Goodman household claiming all in its path.

Daryl was first to feel the effects but had the week off so no big deal. It then brought Kristin low and she has been trooping through it (even training for her half marathon by running 10 miles)

Finally Claire got a bit of a fever and had a bit of a runny nose on sunday, but fortunately we're through the worst of it (famous last words) . Now to get on with life.

Even though this is a bit of a update its still lacking and is mostly a picture blog.

Were always on the lookout for a place to eat thats good, inexpensive (to a degree. well pay for good food) and has a good atmosphere. We were fortunate enough to try SF Boudin for the first time last weekend and thats some good food. yum. unfortunately we missed the rain by a weekend which is perfect weather for a soup and a sandwich place. Not that they dont have other entrees but theyre know for their clam chowder in some of their awesome bread bowls.

also some of their seasonal stuff ie the bread crab above.

Ok

The stats as follows

Claire's first "cold" April 18th 2010

Claire is now 18lbs around 4 ozs

Claire's first crawling position April 19th 2010( she crawls but now she looks like she's crawling even when shes not)

im sure theres more, but well cut this short and get on with the pictures

:D

probably my favorite picture of Claire (top 5 at least)

She likes to make sure her teeth are still around

Claire finding out easter eggs taste like plastic :( so far

Claire sleeping peacefully as the paparazzi snaps pictures

The dynamic duo

and for now adieu!

Daddy has most of the week off to cover for daycare taking good friday...week off.

its cool as theres a little less whining at work so no big thing. HA

ok so trying to do two posts a month at least even though its coming down to a photo dump basically. Notable things Daryl is going to try for a event in san fran to see if he can boost his painting-fu confidence level and maybe win a small statue thatll collect dust. The Goodman family might attend but its 2 months away and D hasn't started anything specific for it yet.

Maybe he can blow the dust off something and wow em.

and now for the pictures

oh and Claire is floating around 17lbs 14ozs

Claire enjoying the easter basket ( yeah i know its not easter yet)

Claire playing with a fake lipstick (uh oh)

Claire trying to hide from daddy

Tired Claire.

Really tired Claire sleeping the only way she knows how.

That's just a little bit more than the law will allow

And bunny Claire with hairy ape man behind her. ggggrrrr

and good night