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May started out with a sad trip back home to my Grandma H’s memorial service. I spoke at her service alongside Chad. I think I said something about squirrels, hummingbirds, and green beans. We miss her so much.

Upon my return, it was a flurry of birthday month activity. Holden turned the big 0-4 and there were also many adult birthday parties to keep us busy and social. We also had time to nerd out at the Maker Faire (you know, drive around cupcakes, see a functioning lego village, and watch a life-size mouse trap game).

Milo, Holden, Scarlett, Julian

This great June picture captures a moment in time. We all met up for dinner at Ryan and Whitney’s to celebrate some random Friday when none of us had a babysitter. You can see Milo with finger paint smeared all over his forehead; sometimes he comes home like that. Holden is happy. Scarlett is happy. Julian has a bandaid over his eyebrow from a self-inflicted incident. Getting them to turn around at the same time was quite a feat.

Other highlights in June:
My niece, baby Kate, was borne to Kristyn and Paul in faraway Leeds. We hope to meet them soon (and to get permission to share a baby pic). Holden and Milo now have a third girl cousin.

Whitney and I traveled to NYC to be part of a satellite media tour promoting The Rookie Mom’s Handbook. Makes a great gift… keep some on hand.

Alec had a birthday and Father’s Day and is/was certainly gearing up for our five year wedding anniversary!

Enjoy the pictures from May and June.

Ok so for anyone keeping score, I will pat myself on the back and agree (with myself) that I’ve done an amazing job playing catch-up with these pictures.

We’re almost current here! In the past two weeks, I’ve uploaded photos for August ‘08 through June ‘09 and redesigned the site.

Hey friends. I’m working hard to post all the pictures that Uncle Chad has been requesting. In the process, we realized our site was woefully outdated so we did a five-minute redesign.

Funny thing is that he just had his own little baby yesterday, so I don’t know when he’ll find the time to check in on us. But I’m committed to catching up and I’ve made another good run at it.

Here are some highlights:

1. Current header picture. As of Father’s Day 2009, that’s what the boys look like!
2. No more top navigation. Looking for the gallery? Check in the right hand side bar at the top. It’s still there. For now.
3. More pictures! Yep, I’ve now posted photos from August, September, October, November, December, February, March, April, and our recent remodel. Giddyup. What happened to January? We’re still looking for it.
4. More stories!

More of that bloggy goodness of hearing stories from our lives. Along with the October pictures, I shared a mini-documentary of Holden with his candy. Earlier this week, I shared a modern-day story from preschool: robot skeletons. Also if you only come here when there’s an email blast, you might have missed our very Berkeley Christmas. It’s not your fault. We realize this site has been dormant for a while.

5. Snazzy side bar. As an experiment we added the facebook fan page feed for Rookie Moms in the side bar. Cool, yes?

Did we accidentally remove anything that you loved? Let us know and we’ll try to fix it.

Milo feeds celery to the chicken. Or tries to.

Last year was our first family holiday in Berkeley. We missed our extended family terribly but thoroughly enjoyed the low-hassle no-travel aspects of this experiment.

Three of us on a holiday carousel; I'm a little bit frazzled in this pic

Ho ho ho. Merry Christmas. Santa brought our family Rock Band.
Happy Hannukah! We held our annual Pot Latke celebration — I think its the Sixth Annual but don’t quote me on it.

Enjoy the photos >