Laura gets her first haircut

And now, for your viewing pleasure

Our 4 month old, Jaron, laughing for the sake of laughing... and making those high pitched baby noises.

Mommy, would you like some sausage?

We learned a new personality trait from our one year old, Lily. If Mommy gets too close to Lily while she's eating, she thinks she's going to steal her food so she protects it the best she can. Lily doesn't have a problem with Me or Laura so much, just Mom... weird, and funny.

Chi's Sweet Home

There's a series of 3 minute anime episodes called Chi's Sweet Home. It's about a cat who lost his mom, got found by a little boy and, though enjoying the life of a stay at home cat, still wants to become re-joined with it's family.

Though this kind of show usually isn't my thing, it is my wife's. I promised I'd watch one... then another. Then I promised I'd just watch upto episode 8... which turned to 12 or 13, I don't remmeber, I lost count. Only 3 minutes long each, they go by fast.

enjoy the first episode

Patrick Star!

Being in radio, you get to meet famous people. People like "incredible hulk" Lou Ferrigno (a jerk in real life), Carlos Mencia (*WAY* funnier off camera than what you see on Comedy Central) and Carrot Top (*WAY* uglier in real life, but naturally funny and witty... and buff).

This past weekend I got to meet a true 'Star' in the form of Patrick from SpongeBob Square Pants. What did I learn about him?... in real life he's very quiet, didn't say a word. He's also made of cardboard and apparently shops at Ranch and Home. I'm here with Lily, but where's Laura? She got spooked. The video of her initial reaction.

I only wish I kept recording... a few moments after I turned the camera off, she actually pulled off the 'Flinstone Run' perhaps also known as the 'Scooby Doo Take-Off'. You know what I'm talking about. It's when you try to run away so fast that your legs are moving like Sonic the Hedgehog, but your body stays in the same place for a few seconds.

New Riggs

Holy New Posts! Yeah, I've been a little busy... new baby and all. But, we had our boy recently. Jaron and Mommy are doing great and you can tell what kind of dedicated father I am... you can clearly see my Nintendo DS on the window sill

My dad, busking in Hawaii

My Dad has what could be the best idea ever. Go to Hawaii (which he does often, now that he's retired), bring your talent and eat with whatever you earn that day. This way you won't have to worry about your finances. My sister is the one taking the video - it's dark outside = it's dark on digital film.

This was the first year he decided to do this, just for fun. He made anywhere from 17 cents to $50. It's funny because he's a concert violist who has been playing professionally for probably 50 years... and here he is, on his vacation, taking his work with him. At least he doesn't have to wear a bow-tie.

Weekend in Idaho Falls

My family and I spent the weekend at the Tautphaus Park Zoo, then Brownstone for lunch, hit up the Museum to see the World of the Pharaohs exhibit and fed the ducks afterwards (and stopped by to see the cows at Reed's Dairy). They don't allow cameras inside the museum, but here's a bit of our weekend in convenient video form.

Stupid Duck

On our way of making a weekend road trip for no reason, we saw a duck flying. It's not really anything out of the ordinary for this area, but since we're not originally from this area we're always amused by it.

One of flying really low and looked like it was going to fly right into me... so much so that it actually did. It didn't even bother flying over me like most do - just decided to slam right into me. It made a loud 'THUMP' sound like when birds fly into windows. I looked in the rear view and it appeared to be fine.

My psychic wife

Like most married couples, we're on the same wave length most of the time. She'll say "you know what sounds good?" and I'll say "yeah, Brownstone" then she'll respond back with "How did you know?!"

This statement is nullified based on the fact that Brownstone always sounds good, But just recently we had two fun twists of intuition.

- We were watching Rock of Love 2 and the challenge was to make a music video. One of the songs, Fallen, a song which her and I have never heard before - they listen to a clip for inspiration - about 3 seconds into the clip my wife says "this video would work best in black and white... and maybe have a single rose in color at the end" Sure enough, the team making the music video shot the whole thing in Black and White and, at the end, when the girl got a rose everything went in color... pretty much the same thing.

- Yesterday she calls up saying that we should take our girls to the doctor because they both have wet coughs. They're checked out, nothing too bad, maybe a little drainage... but my wife was pretty certain Lily (our 8 month old) had RSV. Even though the Doctor said it wasn't anything to worry about, she was still insistant on getter her checked for RSV. Fortuantly, our Doctor said that if it would ease her mind she'd test her just to be safe but was pretty sure it was just a cold. The diagnosis? RSV! She turned out Positive for RSV (which is kind of like a polite infant pnemonia... something that Laura (our almost 3 year old) had last year.

Next stop? the gas station for some Lottery tickets!

she thinks SHE'S the passionate one

Yep, Laura loves Sweet's Ballroom Blitz... and, yep, this song didn't originate from Wayne's World.

BTW: If you remind me that I have power cords that are too easily accessible for small children, I'll remind you that you probably grew up in a house with loose asbestos and lead-based paints.

Animal Sounds

Laura, my almost 3 year old, is learning animal sounds. The fun thing is if she doesn't know what sound an animal makes, she'll make up a sound for what she thinks that animal might make... I gotta show her a picture of a giraffe - who knows what they sound like?

Every morning, we eat a wholesome breakfast of whatever $2 cereal is on sale that week. I also always have to try the new ones. They have a new 'Wild Animal Crunch' which can only be compared to eating a box of Coco Puffs... and the cardboard part of the box, not the cereal itself. Seriously, it's pretty nasty, but it does have pictures of animals on it. In case you wanted to know what a sloth, a toucan and a tiger sound like (as well as the Cookie Crisp wolf), check out the video

Laura: RockStar in the making

I was playing RockBand the other morning just by myself when my 2 year old picked up the drumsticks and decided to play along. Becaused everything she does is cute (not that I'm biased or anything) I grabbed some video of this.

And if you complain about the quality of the video, then you can get me a camera.