He Walks!

This clip includes his first successful set of steps along with a few failed attempts. At the end of the video is a short clip showing him on his bouncing zebra. He loves that thing.

Nan

Birthday Cake

Julian's First Birthday!

I just wanted to wish Julian the best first birthday ever! I'm so sorry I cannot be there, even though I expect tons of pictures to be taken and posted almost immediately so that I FEEL like I was there.... somewhat.

Nan and Dawn, I'm expecting you to throw him the party he deserves :)



Nan here. Just wanted to post this picture some place:

Carla Bozzola Getting Her Diploma!

Somehow I managed to zoom in on Carla getting her diploma. Sadly, it was mispelled. Oh well! It is a great thing to get it at all. She's the one who comes up to the table in the middle of the frame and then at the end of the video is getting the diploma from the dean. Notice she's standing there for quite a while. It seems they were discussing her mispelling. You see? She's going to do great in the real world.

Congratulations Carla!

Carla is done with college! Amazing. This means that the rest of us are really old.

For those that could not be in attendance, here are some pictures of the day. Carla looked GREAT and totally like a graduate--mostly because of the outfit, but also because she has a new walk now, which just screams "knowledge" and "experience".

We're all really proud of you, Carlo Bozzolo!

At the ceremony:
We sat in the seats closest to the sun...and to God. Props to Wil for having eyes like a hawk and spotting Carla among the 7,000 graduates. Wow.












After the ceremony:








I'll put the rest of my photos up on my Flickr account.

The Beatles

If anything were to justify a break in baby-related posts, it would be this great Washington Post editorial about The Beatles.

Great quote:

A hundred years from now, musicologists say, Beatles songs will be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people won't know who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like "Oh! Susanna," "This Land Is Your Land" and "Frère Jacques."

The only part I disagree with is the claim that no one will know who wrote these great songs.