Playing catch up...

Here's some other stuff I haven't posted yet, with all the recent excitement:

Michel's 30th Birthday!

Most of you know Michel turned 30 on 24 Feb. What most of you didn't know, and she didn't know until it happened, is that I surprised her at work with a small party and a big ice cream cake from Coldstone Creamery. Because of her, pardon the pun, workLOAD we couldn't exactly go out and celebrate the way we would like to, so a little surprise, and a dinner made by me so she could relax (which I've been doing more of lately anyways) made for a nice birthday.

Check out the picture album.

Abigail's First Ice Skating Adventures

As part of our ongoing program to focus time on Abigail in light of the arrival of Balen, we decided to set up a couple programs for us and Abigail. The first is ice skating lessons. On 25 Feb, we took her to the local ice rink for her first YMCA sponsored lessons. She wasn't doing so well, and the teacher was flying through a lot of stuff in half an hour, and she got quite discouraged. So I took her to show her some of my ice skating moves learned from a few months of working at an ice rink 10 years ago, and these pictures are the result. She progressed very quickly, and even started making her own challenges. "From here to the blue line!" "From here to the corner and, Daddy, you go there and don't move, and wait for me." She is having fun, and so am I.

Here are a couple short movies about the whole thing. By the way, I have a longer one (6mb) that's on the laptop. I'll post it later since I'm in a time crunch right now. I have to get dinner and get back to the hospital with Abigail. These movies should work in either Quicktime or Windows Media Player.

Movie 1 Movie 2