Eden and Elijah

Here is a video of Eden and Elijah right after Eden got home from daycare today.

Elijah Forster Garnevicus-Vowels

So on Monday, Courtney woke me up a little before 6:00 A.M. saying that she had been having contractions for about 35 minutes. We called the midwives and within a few minutes she was in pretty serious labor- luckily they arrived at our home in about 45 minutes. At 9 A.M., Elijah was born at 8 lbs. 14 oz. and 22 inches. The uppermost photo was taken on Monday, while the photo with Courtney, Eden, Lenni, and Elijah was taken Tuesday, as was the video below. Everyone is healthy and Eden has been a very excited and gentle big sister.

late 2012 highlights

Hi Everybody,

Here are some videos of Eden over the last few months.

1) Eden reading a book about making pancakes.
 Looks like it is too big to post- sorry Lenni.

2) Eden singing Garrison Starr.

3) Eden putting the star on the Christmas tree at the farm.

4) Eden playing at Grandma's school with Uncle Joe.

Saturday, September 8th

Extra fun day today- Eden got to go to the playground with Aunt Star!

Hi Everybody,

I was looking over the website and realizing that almost all the video posted was taken by me. To make up for this, here is a compilation video of some of Courtney's awesome camerawork over the last two years.

take care,
John

September 3rd (Labor Day)

We hadn't made it to Rainier much this summer, so it seemed fun to go to Sunrise and try the hike to the Mount Fremont Lookout, an old fire lookout on the north side of the mountain. Eden did a good job doing some hiking and early in the trip had a excellent sense of navigation.

On the way back she was a bit more tired, but the scenery was excellent.

By the time we got back to Frozen Lake she was feeling a bit giddy with inspiration, leading her to write the song "Ice in the Wawa".

 From the sound of it this will be  the pop hit she uses to fund her other project, an Opera where all of the characters are either sheep or cows, tentatively titled "Moo Moo Baa".

Best of August

We had a busy August- went to the farm, then Jim got married, and then we spent a week in New York. Here are some highlights.

                                          Walking down Tiffany Valley Road with G&GG.

Finding eggs.

Eating ice cream

riding the carousel

watching Uncle Jim and Aunt Star ride off to their mini-moon

running around in Brooklyn

getting a part time job with the MTA

Waiting on a subway platform

herding other babies

July 24th

Eden is a little under the weather today, but her writing is really coming along nicely.

Bonus video: here is Eden asleep on the couch.

July 15th

Today I took some video down at Gasworks. Eden really enjoys puddles.

Note that the Space Needle has the top painted orange, which apparently was the original color at the world's fair 50 years ago.
We wandered down the the water, threw some rocks in, and then as we wandered back saw a bunch of pretty and small birds flying very low to the ground.

July 14th

Courtney's friend Schuyler was in town this weekend, so we went down to Pike's Place to eat piroshky.

You can see the fish throwing station in the background and I pan to the pig for part of it. From there we had a brief stop in a section of SAM with a terrifying wall mural where Eden posed for pictures.

After a nap we went to the park where Eden learned that flatulence is always funny.

stuffed animal party

When Eden came home today, most of her stuffed animals had gathered in a circle for a party. She was excited about this and I helped her pass out one giant lego block to each of them. Later, she made the mistake we all have at one point or another and tried to play matchmaker for a moose and an octopus.

And the first tiny bit of this video was taken by Eden- she is pretty fascinated with the camera.

4th of July/Anniversary #3

Hi Everybody,

Courtney and I spent our anniversary wandering around Seattle with the little one. First we visited an old friend who lives under a bridge by our old apartment.

As you can see, Eden was excited at first, but soon all of her attention went into doing this...

Soon we wandered on to the Fremont Waterfront, with the faint taste of baby thrown grit in our mouths.

It was tiring, but despite the fact that it was our anniversary and we had done the pushing the last time, someone insisted that she get to nap in the stroller on the way back.

Note the festive tree and the atypically poor camera work, also the attractive gentleman in the red hat.

take care,
John

Hamlin park and dog training

I tried to get some good videos at Hamlin park, though it is tough when your subject expects you to stand one step behind them at all times and complains when you do not.

Still lots of fun was had on the slide.

 
Later she worked on her dog training.

best game ever

Yes, Eden has her father's deep seated love of cleaning.

reading

Eden likes books a lot, mostly picture books, but every now and then...

this will probably be the last 'greatest hits' video from the last year- I'll start posting current stuff soon.

take care,
John