So I’ve uploaded oodles of pictures from the previous two weekends’ trips to Wilmington, NC and Dallas, TX for our siblings’ separate graduations. We had a good trip, and now that I’m more recovered from being a bit ill and from traveling with a 10-month-old, hopefully there’ll be some more blog posts for your reading pleasure out soon. Until then, though. Enjoy some pics (most of which are of our cute little baby girl):

• UNC-Wilmington Graduation (my bro-in-law graduated)
• SMU Graduation (my sis graduated)

Congratulations to the graduates!

The iPod Vending Machine

Originally uploaded by Schellack

No, really - that’s a picture of and Apple/iPod-branded vending machine in the Atlanta airport (terminal C). Just swipe your credit card and that $399.99 (plus $28 sales tax) can be your right now! Of course, there won’t be any music on it for your next flight.

This week’s Weekly Parenting e-mail was, I felt, helpful for me, given that our baby girl, while walking around leaning on things — I’ll bet she’ll be walking without holding onto something before her first birthday — has left off the progress she had appeared to be making with speaking. Of course, she still does a fabulous job of making vowel sounds to emulate what you say, such as “eh-oh” for “hello” and “ah-ah” for “bye-bye”. I suppose we’ll look forward to her talking more once she’s really walking around!

Like most of us, babies tend to concentrate on one project at a time. A baby’s drive to take his first step may absorb all his energy for a couple of weeks. During that period, his interest in talking or using his hands may lessen. Once he can walk, however, he’ll set his sights on another goal and work toward it with comical determination. Infant development follows a winding path, rather than a straight course. And babies travel their own paths in their own ways; most, however they get there, reach their milestones in due time.

She sure looks cute now

Originally uploaded by Schellack

Little baby girl is great when she’s eating, not so great when screaming throughout much of the night. But who’s counting, especially when she’s this cute & screams with delight, waving her arms madly up and down, whenever you walk in the room?