mike’s place

Dad, look to the left, not the right!!!

This photo was taken precisely 1 year plus one minute after Kathryn was born. Photo taken January 24, 2005.

Hmmm, this cake made without dairy or eggs is mighty tasty!

Kathryn gets her shot at the birthday cake. Daddy wisely changed Kathryn’s clothes for this part. Photo taken January 23, 2005.

Hmmm, this tastes interesting…

Since Kathryn’s first birthday fell on a Monday, we had her birthday party the day before. Here she’s tasting the cake. Unfortunately, with close to 50 people in the house for the the party, I didn’t have the opportunity to take many photographs, and the ones I took were only so-so. Photo [...]

Look at my “downward-facing dog” pose, Daddy!

Kathryn has always been a ‘yoga baby’. I think she started doing ‘downward-facing dog’ when she was about 6 months old. She was doing ‘Dead bug’ when she was about 2 months old. As Sarah, DJ’s yoga instructor says, “We’ve always known how to do yoga — we’ve just [...]

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When I weighed myself this morning, I was 193.0 lbs. That’s officially over half way to my goal weight of 160. Woot! I’m down 33.2 from my starting weight of 226.2 pounds in a bit over two months.

My progress has slowed down considerably over the past month. I was sick about a month ago for [...]

It looks like someone’s about to have a birthday. As Kathryn is allergic to many things, including dairy and eggs, DJ had to make this cake without milk and eggs. It turned out to be quite tasty. Photo taken January 21, 2005, 3 days before the big ‘1′.

Ahhhh, that’s what I dropped. Thanks mommy! I was lookin’ for that sock.

Being the neglectful parents that we are, we let Kathryn play by herself on the kitchen counters all the time. We have no idea how she gets up there. Photo taken January 21, 2005.

Hey Daddy, I think I dropped something.

Photo taken January 21, 2005.

Ok, so who wants to play frisbee?

It looks like Kathryn is getting the knack of frisbee. Look at her style!

I didn’t actually catch Kathryn in the process of throwing the ‘frisbee’. She’s just offering the lid to DJ. But the pose just looked too good. Photo taken January 21, 2005.

There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: “Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?”

“An operating system,” replied the programmer.

The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. “Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of [...]

I scrunch my nose in your general direction!

Kathryn ’somehow’ managed to get herself up onto our kitchen counter. She likes ‘playing’ with the laptop. Photo taken January 21, 2005.

I’ve got my Robeez, and I’m on the move!

Kathryn is demonstrating one of the main advantages to her ‘bum scootch’ over crawling. She can carry quite a payload while scootching. Here she’s carrying a pair of her Robeez. Photo taken January 20, 2005.

Whoa! So I didn’t go to bed last night. I’ve been up all night coding, testing, fixing, coding, testing, fixing, etc. Just generally geekin’ out. This site now has three different themes which you can select by using the theme pull-down in the sidebar on the right. I’m currently undecided about which is my favourite [...]

I can almost reach my Robbies.

Photo taken January 20, 2005.

Kathryn is longing to be outside. Photo taken January 20, 2005.

Kathryn is sitting on Daddy’s lap with three of her favourite stuffed animals, Tux, Bananas, and Puppy. Photo taken January 17, 2005.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……….

Kathryn is having a nap with her favourite stuffed animal, Tux. Photo taken January 12, 2005.

Emergency! Emergency! It looks like my patient has gone into shock. I’ll need to apply mouth to mouth!

Dr. Kathryn is on the case. Photo taken January 09, 2005.

… and it looks like your pulse is normal as well.

Kathryn seems to be covering all the bases when she checks on her patients. Photo taken January 09, 2005.