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Bella was a ‘Lil’ Devil this year for the Halloween festivities…

Yup. One year ago today I started my job in Cleveland and the ball has been rolling ever since. Yea, I know there’s another famous thing about this day, but right now I’m just focused on the fact that a year has gone by quicker than any year has gone by before. i hope that is not a pptern (though I suspect it is…)

Quick year synopsis (i.e.- in a nutshell…)

Awesome Vacation, New Temporary digs followed by new permanent digs, old & new friends, somebody jumped from 1st to 2nd grade, wife and life in good shape, Kewl job, much yardwork ahead, Browns questionable at best but Cavs & Indians were/are on a roll, the Sopranos ended, some friends I didn’t see enough (or at all…) and I got to shovel snow….

A few weeks back over at Mom’s, Jayden and Bella did some cartwheels. Now, according to jayden, his are “better than anybody!”. You be the judge…
Good Timez…

Hmmmm. Well according to a new study, it appears those awful videos we used to show our daughter may not have been so great after all. Turns out, babies who watched many many hours actually knew less words than kids who hadn’t watched it.

Luckily, my daughter likes to use big words and seems to have turned out just fine (minus the trauma suffered from that damned ‘dragon puppet’ (see below), with it’s big mouth popping open out of nowhere causing her to shake and cry…)

It’s good to know that this sort of research (10 years too late) is out there. Those videos were really creepy. Sure, it’s nice to hear kids count to 10 in 24 different languages while a disembodied hand slides a toy fire truck across the screen, and one of those old toy robots from the 20’s waddles across the screen, but at the end of the day, we see how much good it did…

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The last of the pics brings us some shots of the room at the condo, more kids on the beach fun (and somecartwheels, and the last evening where we spent an hour with the kids burning off boxes and boxes of sparklers, as I tried to take goofy long-exposure photos. Click the image to the left (or here) to launch the photos..

This past Saturday we spent the evening in downtown Cleveland with the family. After a tasty dinner at The House Of Blues we met up with Bella’s Grandparents and Aunt & Uncle for a night at Jacob’s Field. Although the Indians lost to the Twins, we had a blast. Bella rocked out to some tunes and got her fill of cotton candy, peanuts and it was even ‘Tom Hamilton‘ talking bobblehead night to boot!!

Okay - They just keep on coming. Here we’ve got round Five of Vacation photos (FYI - There’s only 1 more batch of pics…). Today’s venture blasts through some beach fun, a stellar poker night (as the kids hang in the other room looking bored…) and a little steamy trip of miniature golf. Click the image to the left (or here) to launch the photos..