Children Are Our Future...

Facebook status updates today reveal that Cale's wife Amy is pregnant again – their third child! Cindy and I are deeply happy with them, though quite content with the two we have, and are staying put. Still, children are a miracle, and as this video I came across today makes clear, you just have to always love and believe in your child, no matter what challenges he or she may face, what obstacles they have to overcome.

Meanwhile, in Aidan's Mouth...

Anyway, while Cindy and I are off to New York for a break, Aidan's first loose tooth (she's been wiggling on it for several weeks now) finally gives way and pops out in the midst of a lunch with Granny down at Subway. As Granny Lynne tells it, Aidan was just eating her sandwich, then got a funny look on her face and suddenly noticed she her tooth was gone! And that she'd swallowed it!

I tried to convince Granny to maybe pick through the stool to look for it later in the day, but she wasn't buying it. She's no fool.

And somehow, despite Cindy and I being in New York, the Tooth Fairy managed to come all the same, leaving a mostly crisp one dollar bill. Perhaps the Tooth Fairy is a Freemason...

Spirits of Vacations Past...

Couldn't resist posting this one from days gone by...August 2001...

New York Minute

Hey, we went to New York for like 5 minutes this past weekend. A much needed break, and a lot of fun. The girls stayed home with Granny, and we ran out east and ran all over town, mostly touristing it up, but it was nice to see the town and not be just exhausted from working 22 hours a day. From my usual stool and the Mulberry Street Bar over to Jacques Torres for chocolate, up to the Empire State Building to lope around like the giant ape I am, and then out to dinner, it was really a love time and the first real vacation Cindy and I have had in a long time.

Tourist-y couple-y photo on the south side, looking towards the scene of a real tragedy, the project Rooks and I worked on in January...though it looks better now.

The big building just to the right of Madison Square Garden there, with the big red 1 on the side, that's the New York office where I worked for much of 2007.