sleepy

so tired tonight, i'm going to bed soon. here's a pretty blue and white mosaic to look at for now:

entertainment

it was a BAD night with erik tonight ... no nap today, and at bedtime we had a complete nuclear meltdown. luckily peter very generously relieved me when i was about to totally lose it. erik has FINALLY settled down in bed, i have FINALLY settled down with a couple of glasses of wine, and i created this to amuse myself:

meh

i need to get out and take some photos!

wordles

there is the really cool website with a program that allows you to create word clouds from any text you type or paste into it. i've been having a lot of fun playing with it and making wordles mostly from lyrics to various songs, but if you're more creative than i am, you could probably make something really interesting. the website is: http://www.wordle.net/

here's an example of a couple that i have made.

this one is just text pasted from dean wareham's wikipedia entry:



and one from the lyrics of the luna song sideshow by the seashore:



finally, this one is from the lyrics to another day by galaxie 500:



i highly recommend that you go check this out, and share your results with me. i'd love to see them!

the other red squirrel

today i did not take my camera to school with me. today, on my walk from my car to the lab, i saw my little red squirrel friend but had no food to share with him so i didn't stop. and then, a little further down the road, i saw *another* red squirrel, this one a bit fatter and a bit bolder than the one i usually see. he came right up to me, obviously begging for some food. he sat only six inches from my feet so i of course whipped out my phone and took a couple of pictures of him - what a cutie!

another erik birthday mosaic

i wanted to update the one that i made yesterday so that i would have a photo of erik on january 20th each year, and also so that each photo would clearly show his face (yes, i am very picky!) ... this is what i came up with:



my little boy blew out his candles all by himself tonight!

happy 3rd birthday erik!

here's a mosaic i made with photos from each of erik's four birthdays. they were all taken on january 20th except for the last one, which i took at his party this past sunday (the 17th). i'll try to get a decent shot tomorrow and update it. hard to believe my little guy is 3 already! it's gone by amazingly fast, and i hardly remember what it was like having a little baby. he's such a big boy now!

party!

yesterday we had erik's third birthday party. it seemed to go pretty well, everyone had a good time. i'm not feeling particularly verbose tonight, so for now here are some pictures.

before the party:





funny faces:





opening presents:







cake time!



no one seemed to mind that he spit all over the cake while he was blowing out his candles.





i think the highlight of erik's day was listening to yo gabba gabba songs on unkie newt's phone:



then watching yo gabba gabba with maggie upstairs:



while others played wii downstairs:





more later ...

afternoon in the strip

*yawn*

i'm feeling too tired/lazy to blog tonight, so here, look at this picture of my cute squirrel friend!