Category Archives: Around town

They told me the popsicle was dairy free

But then the label says “made with strawberries and cream.” So AJ gets two treats — winning!

Practicing escalation at MSP

Our boy continues to acquire new skills. After dropping off a friend at the airport, we practiced going up and down escalators. Highly entertaining, and the airport has a lot of escalators. “Let’s, let’s, let’s do more.”

This just in: Mike on TV

Yes, it’s true. This is not a post about our Super Baby, this is a post about our Super-Baby-Daddy, Mike. Mike was at a work conference for two days, and since he’s a computer security guru, and he looks good in the company color of burgundy, he was interviewed by Fox News!! His interview can […]

DC chaos and Action Jackson becomes a bag-man

If you’ve seen the news over the past few days then you’ve probably seen that a crazy man walked into the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday and started shooting. Fortunately the other guards were able to subdue him. Unfortunately not until after he shot a guard who later died from the injuries. A horrible situation all […]

Action Jackson: a day in the park

Yes it’s true: as our boy gets bigger, we try to keep exposing him to new and exciting things. Let me clarify, age appropriate new and exciting things — we will not take him bungee jumping or skydiving any time soon. It was lovely weather here the weekend of March 28th, and so I put the […]

Action Jackson: there’s never enough time yet they grow up fast

It’s true, we haven’t blogged in awhile. We’re aware of the issue and we’d like to fix it, but that would require more time, and that’s one thing that seems to be in very short supply lately. I’m back at work pretty much full time now, Mike’s been at work full time since week 3 […]

Obaminauguration: no we couldn’t

For those of you who pay attention to politics, you may have heard that there was an inauguration on January 20th. The inauguration took place in our Nation’s Capital, which is Washington DC, which also happens to be where we live. The next logical question would be: did we attend? Well, mostly no, but a […]