Family

Callum Muir Woods Originally uploaded by Pamela PC. Our friends Madalyn and Brian from Texas were in town a couple of weeks ago, so we took the opportunity to visit some NorCal sites like Muir Woods (pictured) and Sonoma County wine country. Let this be a lesson to all of you considering visiting. We’ll show you an awesome time in some beautiful country (and possibly get you drunk). P.S. This … [Read more...] about Callum in Muir Woods

With Harry and Charlie Originally uploaded by Pamela PC. We are just back from Scotland where Callum had a chance to socialize with family and friends (like these handsome twins here). Pics available on Flickr. … [Read more...] about Callum Socializing

Sometimes it just comes over you all of a sudden… … [Read more...] about Sleepy Sunday

Don’t worry, we don’t let him do it unsupervised. … [Read more...] about Callum’s latest trick

another version of the “expressing himself” video. … [Read more...] about Expressing Himself

An Eye-Wrinkling Smile Originally uploaded by Pamela PC. Here he is! Looking more and more like a little boy instead of like a baby every day. … [Read more...] about An Eye-Wrinkling Smile

Here’s a video on YouTube featuring Callum. If you can’t see the video in the window, you can try clicking on the link. … [Read more...] about Callum Expressing Himself

Interesting piece in Inside Bay Area about baby sign language. We haven’t been pushing this hard with Callum, because he still isn’t doing more common gestures like “bye bye,” but we’ve learned some of the common signs (more, milk, eat, mother, father) and expect we’ll begin using them more as time goes on. We’ve got a couple of videos on the subject, and put them on the DVD player occasionally. I … [Read more...] about Baby Signs

My cousin, Debra (Debby), a federal public defender, made her first oral argument this week before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Here’s WindowsMedia audio. Great job, Debby. We’re so proud of you! (And we got to see her briefly, too, since it was in SF, which was wonderful.)The Scottish family will know Debby from her visit over Christmas (without us). … [Read more...] about My Brilliant Cousin

Scarcely a diaper change goes by that we fail to have an encounter with the Squirm-meister General, as we have come to call him. This is the part of Callum’s personality — which is increasingly ascendant — that insists upon flipping over, standing up, grabbing for faraway items, and generally making things difficult on the parents. This is despite the fact that we’re only trying to do things that … [Read more...] about The Squirm-meister General