New Spring '09 School Photo for Miles

Miles is Taking His Own Pictures

Miles has been dabbling in the photogrphic arts the last 6 months or so. Click here to take a look at what is important in Miles' world.

Raw Fizz

Miles has grown quite fond of a cup of alka seltzer next to the ear drum. The more intense the better for our Miles boy ..

Surprise Winter Fun & Music

Lately, there have been two songs soaring through the Miles nomenclature. First, he has to hear a song called 'go-go-go' by 'The 88' when in the car. I really love this band, but he's got me to the point where I can't listen to them casually for a long while because I hear that song so much. The other song is 'piggies' by The Beatles. I had to halt the repetition on this one because it would be sacrelidge to do that to the White Album. At any rate, we dug the recent snow and got our feet cold and wet with all of it. A bit of a video below recapturing the surprise winter fun with Miles .. enjoy.

Dirt & Paint Mush

On the first full spring weekend around the house, Miles made his rounds in style. Between the pool and the mud, he got his hands full of paint. I put a little video up to compound the warm weather Miles fun .. Enjoy.

Speaking without Words

In our IT shop in the school disrict I work at, I answered a knock to our door this morning and had a teacher shoved me a note scrawled on a white writing pad. She was tapping a pen to a request for me to meet her in a conference room to help get a DVD player to work. As I nodded calmly, we headed over wordlessly to the room. I didn't ask or delve any further into why this teacher, who typically speaks in vocal words, wasn't speaking to me except with a medium sized pad of paper and blue pen. As I was tinkering with the cables and TV, she wrote a couple of new directives which I immediately nodded and went along my way. After she wrote that she couldn't talk for 2 weeks due to a strained vocal cord, I smiled and told her my story. I said that my 4 1/2 year old son was non-verbal and I have an easy time decoding gestures, pointing and a host of non-verbal cues. At this, she gave me a broad smile as I went along figuring our how she was going to project her DVD with people speaking to a room of folks that would be silent.

Catchin' Sunshine ..