January 24th, 2012
Tonight after dinner I announced that I would “pick up the table.” Silas, always needing to put his own 2-cents in, informed me with great concern that “pickup table hard.” He then offered to “help mama” and then proceeded to demonstrate how difficult this all would be by trying to pry up the table with his small chubby hands while making grunting noises.
Silly mama. What the heck does ‘pick up the table’ mean anyway? Why not just say what I really mean: Pick up the dishes….off the table! Sheesh, watch out. He’s on to me.
posted by arr
December 4th, 2011
Christmas! With chilly Tucson temps and snow in the mountains, this is as Christmas-y as it gets people. So before temps move back up to the low 70’s norm, we jumped on the moment and got our tree this weekend. Silas is going nuts with it all. The first words out of his mouth this morning from his crib were “TREE!! LIGHTS!!” I love it.
Snow in the mountains
Tree in the house
Silas looking at the tree with dad and taking it all in
posted by arr
December 2nd, 2011
Another outing over the weekend - this time a little bouldering on The Matterhorn.
The Matterhorn Boulder
Dried boogers, dried drool and a granola bar
Baby under the boulder
and on the pads - of course his favorite play area
Paul giving Jewel Thief, v10 a try
Setting up for the crux
Going big
Going down
And going home. After about a dozen falls from the top, it’s cold and getting dark. Pauls wants to try again this weekend but we might get shut down due to SNOW!!!! :D
posted by arr
December 1st, 2011
A couple shots from a nice hike over last week’s Thanksgiving break.
The Marshall’s Gulch trail - our usual
Wonder what this sounded like when it snapped?
Never pass up a boulder that needs climbed
Silas agrees
…or a tree
Mama
Dad
Looping back on Mint Springs trail through the burned section
posted by arr
November 9th, 2011
Sorry for the lack of posts. I will catch you all up very soon with lots and lots of cute Silas photos- I promise! In the meantime, here are some quick pics from last weekend’s trip to Hueco. I couldn’t bear to keep the red puffy pic all to myself. :-)
THE new red puffy pic
Paul bagging a repeat of Predator, v10 after his 4 months off rest period. Grrr - can this please happen to me?
Snack with Mama
Back to exploring
Dino climbs too
Silas’ secret passage
See Spot Run, v6
The gymnasium
Paul working out the enduro traverse Burn Baby Burn, v8
Car + scewdriver + dirt = awesome
my baby
posted by arr
October 16th, 2011
Happy Birthday Silas!
Here are some pics from last weekend at the pumpkin patch and our birthday walk/hike this morning.
I’m two
Silas’ new wagon, a gift from his grandparents
posted by pjv
September 5th, 2011
A Mt. Lemmon hike sidetracked with a little baby bouldering. I promise this is not staged:
posted by arr
