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MNSteve
-juice
Just a couple more shots in the album for now:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4286247371
Ken
DaveM
-Brian
-Frank
Bob
Long live OCD. Even the parking spots have to be clean!
-juice
Greg
Kana's still intimiated by it. I suggested she drive it, but she just wanted to sit inside and soak it in.
Erina absolutely LOVES the moonroof. She rode in it the first time this morning to day care. I rolled back the shade and she kept looking up, pointing and blabbering something.
Ken
-juice
Greg
Major flash floods north of Baltimore. Saw a Jeep Liberty floating away on TV.
Don't drive over moving water folks!
-juice
Don't drive over moving water folks!
<<<<
whew was worried you were gonna say driving across the atlantic was out
One place in Delaware got over 11.5" of rain! It looks like Harford and Cecil Counties (Maryland) are in pretty bad shape. Lots of flooding.
Bob
It was Smyrna, DE; which is just north of DC, per Saab.
DC = Dover
Delaware Route 1 in Smyrna:
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/07/images/80- 717.jpg
DaveM
Jim
Congrats,
Ed
I'll soon have to go to "DC" to fight a speeding ticket.
-juice
-Brian
Ed
Going OT, here but how's fatherhood? How many months has it been now?
Don't worry -- it get's easier and a lot more fun. I love spending time with Erina now that she's more interactive.
Ken
As you can see from the pics, Paul is a big boy; 23 lbs. give or take a few ounces at 7 1/2 months. He doesn't crawl very well but can stand on his own as long he has something to hold onto (sometimes he will tire of using his hands and support himself with his chin alone). Sits by himself with no support. We can tell he's frustrated by his inability to propel himself as well as he'd like. No teeth yet but very soon. VERY verbal. Starting to grab mommy's and daddy's eyeglasses, nose, ears, hair etc. when he can.
Loves music, ceiling fans, overhead lights, women with long hair, and anything blue (he will stare, transfixed, at the TV screen when The Weather Channel runs its "local on the 8s" becuase the screen is virtually all blue). Loves to sit on the kitchen floor and watch things happen - loves to watch people doing things generally.
He is in onsite day care at mom's place of work which entertains him to no end. We worry sometimes that he will get bored at home but we also realize we don't always have to go out of our way to entertain him. So long as we interact with him, doing the things we normally do holds his interest.
All in all, I love him more than life itself and I wouldn't trade these last almost eight months for the world.
Ed
Wait until that first step. You'll wish he stayed immobile. ;-) Sounds like you took fatherhood just fine! :-)
Brogan (13mos) crawls and climbs all over things. He walked earlier than Brooke (3.1yrs) did, at just before a year old. He tries to walk faster to keep up with his older sister, but he's not a runner just yet ;-)
Tonight he walked over to me and gave me a hug and muttered "Daaaaah", his current version of Dad. I guess that makes up for the mess he just made eating dinner - he likes to watch food drop to the floor now.
-Brian
My baby boy, Mikey will be turning 9 in August.
It just keeps getting better! Verbal sounds turns into full comprehensive conversations. Toys move from mega blocks to lego's. I think we have over 100,000 legos. Not just the plain blocks mind you, but "mission from mars" and construction vehicle sets. The entire Harry Potter series is complete on a shelf in his room. Cozy Coupes move to tricycles to mountain bikes. Did you ever ride a Razor Scooter down a hill? Can you say soccer? The boy also discovered skiing last winter.
(on-topic) That's why I have an Outback - to move all his stuff around!
It's a wonderful experience, and I would not trade it for anything.
Charlie is entering his Terrible Twos, and his tantrums seem worse than his sister's. Funniest thing is to hear him say "I don't know" (as in who broke that) and his expression, it's priceless.
He LOVES riding on the back of my bike. Hey, where's Don been anyway? I wonder how Marianne is doing?
-juice
I see yesterday I posted "CWS" when I meant "CRS" ;-). Maybe I was thinking about the Chicago White Sox, I don't know.
Tantrums have already started. As for the mobility issues, I've dropped 35 lbs. since Paul was born in anticipation of having to keep up with him (not that I didn't need to lose those anyway). Unfortunately at my age the pounds seem to come off the middle last.
Ed
-juice
That's a special feeling only a parent can understand. Erina just lights up my world.
Maybe we should start a new Subaru Crew Topic: Subaru Owners' Kids.
Ken
Ed
Ed, you just may be right.
Bob
If it's true I may consider cancelling my order. One of the factors behind my purchase was that I don't want to wait for the Forester to begin to adopt the Zapatinas styling cues.
Ed
Bob
Here's where you (and others as well) and I differ. That couldn't happen fast enough for me. I wish it were here now. I only wished the new Legacy and Outback had the new look. That's my only major styling criticism of the new Legacy and Outback. I do, however, understand Subaru's reasons for their delay and plan of implementation.
Bob
2006 is due for a face-lift so it might just get some version of the upside-down Alfa face. Though I'd prolly like that better than the current snarling Elantra face, to be honest.
-juice
The B11S, B9SC, R1e, and R2 front end treatments just aren't doing it for me though. I don't know how best to put it into words. It's not that it's reminiscent of Edsel (Edsel grilles were wide at top, smaller at bottom like Alfa) and it's not that Alfa pulls the look off that well from model to model either.
Ed
-juice
Ed
I haven't had to wash it in about 3 weeks. I just dust it daily, take care of any spots with Meguiar's QD, and have been giving the vehicle a full QD wipedown weekly.
-Brian
-juice
Ken
-mike
Looks great on the track. Good stills!
-Brian
-mike
Got it Sunday 7/18/04.
Craig
Bob
Cheers Pat.