Aeryn - July 2005

How cute it this? I've been goofing with the blog and now Picasa. Someday I will get everything together and then... naw... I won't; I'm still to lazy to actually do anything impressive. i mean, if I do it will be a one-shot deal so I better save it for something important.

Father Bear Goes to the Middle East.

To Detroit, then Frankfurt then Dubai.
Can you tell how excited I am? I guess I would feel better if the UAE and Iran didn't have periodic territorial waterway disputes. But, DIC is supposed to be chockfull of Westerners so I imagine it won't be so bad. Maybe pretty good, I hope.

A Day at the River

Aeryn and I take in some time at a stop along the Fox river.
Mommy had other things going on, so this was a father-daughter bonding moment.

Aeryn: Super Bouncer

Aeryn bounces at 'school'

Aeryn models

A Perfect Week

This doesn't happen too often so we thought we'd record it for posterity.
This was June 9th, 2007.

We were trying to figure out how to get Aeryn motivated to behave, do some chores, not hit the other little girls, not start fires in the hallway at daycare (well, ok, she didn't really do the latter) and we stumbled across this magnetic/wipe-erase board with a whole series of magnetic markers and goals and such. Now she has a daily accounting of her behavior so when we talk about some reward (e.g. going to the bookstore -- yes! she loves books!) she knows exactly what she's shooting for and we have a more realistic idea of how angelic our little angel really is.

--We were right more often about that than not.

But her behavior has been remarkedly improved since we started this and she reminds us when it's time to put the markers on the board.

Woot! Woot!

First entry in the Blog of Joe, Marilyn and Aeryn!