Someone really wanted to wear dads hat.

so its been really busy for me lately.  i have been working over at ProMedia Productions for the past 2 weeks and it has been great.  it sounds like i may be working over there on a freelance bassis for a while now.  that is great for us!  other than that we have just been busy outside working in the yard or playing with Miles.  he loves being out there.  some days we can’t get he inside with out a fit!  but that is fine, we are glad he likes to be outside.  he also enjoys going for a bike ride with us.  he has his own little pull behid trailer that is hooked onto Miriams bike.  we have also been speding time at my grandparents house since they are back from Arizona for the summer.  always good times there!

so yesterday my wife wanted to mow the lawn. which is fine by me, it really needed it anyway. we also had a

lot of dandelions in our yard this year. Miles discovered that he could blow on some of them to make the seeds fly away. that was cute to see. but that is not what this post is about. this post is about the freak mutant dandelion that my wife found while mowing. it was crazy and looked like something taht would attack us if it was allowed to grow.

what had happened was 3 plants fused together some how and creatated this stem with like 6 blooms on it! it was nasty ugly. is this a new species? Or is it jsut strange sci-fi, now sci-fa? Check out the photos…

this is just a fun little post. when we are at my parents house Miles gets to “drive” grandpa’s car. just up the driveway when it is parked on the street. he has a good time with it, as you can see

this past weekend we went to my parents house for some odds and ends. one of those was going through some of my old stuff and old computers that we had sitting in the basement. there were tons of old video components and random other things, but the main attraction was my old Video toaster computer. man that thing was loaded up! (for 1993). i think it must have had at least 2GB of Hard Drive Space in it! Also the NewTek Video Toaster with which i edited video, animated with Lightwave and a few other things. i also has “personal animation recorder” in there. what that did was record my animations to the hard drive so i could watch them or record them to Video tape (imagine that). the kicker was that i was able to do all this on a 33 MHz processor! amazing!

we plugged it in to see if it would start up. it seemed to but i don’t think the hard drive was spinning properly. so we opened it up and when my dad took out his handy dandy little flashlight to look the top fell off and shorted the computer out. (this was because Miles was playing with the flashlight and has recently learned to unscrew things. needless to say he unscrewed the flashlight). so off to the recycling it went. no worries. i don’t think it worked any more any way.

here are a couple of things Miles has learned recently… enjoy!

ah spring. its been a long winter and i am ready for spring. we have had several days where it has been around 70 and it has been glorious! Last week my wife and i had a nice lunch outside int he back patio. that is one of our favorite things to do in the warmer months! well that and have a nice fire with an occasional adult beverage.

Since my wife works in the afternoon twice a week i get to spend time with my boy and now that is is warm out we can go explore and have fun. the other day we put up the hammock in the back patio. we had fun sitting in it. it is great to see his little personality develope and it is really fun to see that he is turning into a little me! we tend to make the same goofy faces as well as the same interests. The past few days we have started drawing and coloring together. those pieces of art are on our refrigerator for all to see.

yes that’s right, Miles can use the iPhone. he knows how to turn it on, unlock it, view photos and even answer it. don’t believe me? check out the video.