Well, GeezLouies.net is officially one years old. We started a year ago and with many changes… we are now what we are.
Of course there is more to come. We’ll continue to update you with our family stories and bring you many many hours of entertainment… well, maybe a few minutes a day.
Here are some photos for your enjoyment.
This has been a very interesting fall. One of the major advances has been our potty training for Eliana.
It started with lots of naked time… but we gave up on that after couple days due to unintended consequences.
Instead of going cold turkey, we ended up getting a training potty from the grandma and grandpa geezlouies. This has worked exceptionally well. Eliana has been able to let us know whenever she needs to go… this started off slow, but patience sure pays off.. she has been consistently poopoo-ing and peepee-ing for the past week.
Our only advice… start early and be patient… and have lots of encouragement. Proverbs 22:6 “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” Each time Eliana does her business… Mommy Geezlouies sings the potty song with lots of clapping and even a gummy once in a while.
On other news… our neighbors moved out to Culpeper. This was eliana’s playmate of around the same age. We had them over for dinner before they left.
In the mail. we have been getting gifts from Grandmammy. Enclosed has been various books like Clifford the Big Red Dog and other toys. Included is this early Halloween disguise…
Last month we visited my old roommate’s family. He just had his fifth kid so we made it up for her baptism. It was quite amazing seeing the way things have changed so much for us since college. Another bonus was that he lived near the chesapeake bay so we had some good crab cakes and hung out at the beach.
Solomons Island was just a 15 minute drive away from his house. It was quite the adventure as this was probably our first and only summer vacation outing for the year.
Also on deck was a visit with an engaged thduggie and AlexP. They were members of a small group we lead in college. Both are men of faith which we seem to meet almost on an annual basis. We had good indian food at Bombay bistro in Fairfax. A little disappointed there was no buffet during dinner time, but I got over that pretty quickly…
Our house is open to whoever is in town. This month it is C-un, a friend from Beijing who is entering into college at St. John’s College (not to be confused with St. John’s University or Johns Hopkins. He is into the BBoy scene, a master of starcraft, a theologian, philosopher, linguist, and all around fun guy (he even cooks and cleans). With the added member to our family, we’ve been quite active…
And of course our church’s community yardsale and carwash… check out some of the pictures from facebook
Here are some pictures of e. She’s enjoying her day out with dora and visiting fourth auntie.
Make-up… clown… what else do I have to say? Okay, so I got a new camera. not trying to do product placement, but just wanted to let you know. It was cheap, bought it at costco… point and shoot digital camera. Even records movies… so we’ve put away the Sony camcorder and started using this to record movies as well. the overload of photos and movies will continue to come.
Check out the previous post’s movie we just uploaded:
http://geezlouies.net/2008/06/27/baby-pics-fun-with-fourth-auntie/
Here are some pictures of Eliana eating chapogetti… instant noodles… black noodles…
This is the left over sauce from the other day. She obviously loves it so much she uses it for makeup… The pictures don’t do her justice…