A retrospective on 08

January



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April
May

June

July

August

September

October


November

December (a few more favorites from our trip).







Raph and I brought in the new year right. We played games with my parents until the new year came. (I am the 2008 champion in Bananagrams and Oh Hell!) Then we slept in while my mom watched Makili this morning. We've pretty much gotten to do that every day here which has been entirely blissful. Last year Raph and I welcomed the new year by watching the sunrise at the beach, and that seemed pretty great. But laying in bed until 9:00 is pretty damn awesome too. Happy New Year.

Confluence

We took Makili to the "Point," where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers converge to form the Ohio river.  It was windier and colder than we expected, but Makili ran around like a crazy man until he got tired, and then refused to even walk.  I just love the sunshine and the Pittsburgh of my youth.

A trip to the Children's Museum

I worked at this museum years and years ago. And I still know many people there. It was the place that started the working me and I still consider it to be partly mine. Makili loved it, though he probably would have been just as happy to play on the ramp just inside the door as to check out any of the other exhibits, but what can you do. You have to force kids to have fun these days. Makili definitely has a longer attention span than I do!