What a day

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Posted by Blake, Kimberly, Adeline, and Oliver | Posted in | Posted on Monday, July 27, 2009


What a day, what a day! My super old mother just turned another year today, wow. Upside-down that spells mom.


My little baby girl just got back from a nice beach vacation and she thought she should send a little message to the old cracker who is turning four years older than dirt.










All the zoofans who have children understand that a majority of a parent's time is spent trying to figure out where the child got a certain trait. Adeline has a bad temper, got that from her mother. Adeline farts like a lion meows, got that from her father. Adeline doesn't have very much hair, got that from her papaw Joking. Just yesterday while pops and I were out and about grandma old-as-dirt and Ms. Kimberly noticed another interesting trait that this little girl displays. Watch and try to guess who she takes after on this one. The polls open at midnight.

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Posted by Blake, Kimberly, Adeline, and Oliver | Posted in | Posted on Friday, July 24, 2009

Many fans of the zoo have been asking repeatedly to see some pictures that I have been promising for the past few weeks. Nearly everyone and their mother has asked to see some pictures of the greatest rivalry ever, at least since John McEnroe vs. the umpire. Well, here they are at last...

This first image was snapped immediately prior to the "friendly" rivalry between me and my arch nemesis Jeremy "white devil" Sikora. For those of you who know me and Jeremy you probably understand this distaste for one another. We are nearly mirror images of one another in many aspects of our lives including personality, career choice, energy level, love of the retro attire, ability to stroke the J with an abundance of water being splashed in our faces......and the list goes on and on my friends.










This next picture was actually snapped mid game. As you can see I am showing no mercy to my dear friend as I throw this round ball made of the finest ostrich skin through this iron hoop hanging nearly 15 ft above our heads. I was also attempting to get a little penuckle kick in as he was being distracted by my mesmerizing rim-rocker. Did I mention that pool basketball does get a little dirty?












Now it's time to get to back to the development of my skillz. As you may have read in the previous post I have been working on my carpentering skill. Well, I'm nearly finished down at ma and pa Lloyd's. Here is the most up-to-date photo that I could manage. I cracked a bit and worked a full 8 hr day on Monday and I think that we made some pretty good progress. The ardent observer may notice that my helpers (mom, pops, Kelsey, and Bay-dog) are just sitting down while I was still working quite fervently.


















The true zoo fan would remember a couple of posts back where I displayed my love of horticulture. Well, it is only about one month later and my love has turned into a backyard full of vegetables that I don't even eat. Here are some pictures of what has become of my once beautiful back yard. Just today I found a cucumber that was as long as my forearm. I didn't even think that any of them were growing.

























Last but certainly the best update would have to be some pictures of my little fart competition winner. You may think this is a funny term of endearment for my one month old daughter but this girl can fart like the janitor at a junkyard. Also, she just had her one month checkup and now weighs 9lb 2oz - up from 6 lb 3oz about 3 weeks ago. She is also 22in long - up from 20.

































Jesus was a carpenter....

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Posted by Blake, Kimberly, Adeline, and Oliver | Posted in | Posted on Saturday, July 18, 2009


Not one of THE CARPENTERS. I am sure he enjoyed their music back in his day though. Over the past week I have been attempting to become more well rounded by perfecting my carpentering skillset which is probably in the 98-99th percentile already. I am assuming you are already familiar with my singer/songwriter skillset, my flute beatboxing skillset (which is quite awesome so if you don't click on any other links I don't care but you have to check this one out), my trap shooting skillset, and my sweet dancing skillset.
Mom and pops have a whole lot of grass and not enough of the yard dominated by decking yet so they decided to expand the already 47000 sq ft of existing deck out to an even 50000. They thought this would be a perfect opportunity for me to put some of this schooling I have endured over the past few years to good use and help them out.

The training session began with a destruction session which Papa Lloyd wound up being quite good at. I'm pretty sure that he has destroyed a few things in his life because he appeared to be a professional at turning perfectly useful objects into large masses of useless rubble.























I wish I had taken a picture of the hot tub which was in the middle of the driveway in four large pieces so I could prove to you that papa Lloyd really is quite an impressive demolition man. This was pretty much where day one of my training ended. I would say it is pretty close to day one for Daniel-saan.









Day two was off to a slow start because of some technical difficulties with the small human currently living in my home so we didn't get started until about noon. As you can see this project wasn't undertaken without the best help around. Mom, Aunt Laura, and Uncle Pete were there to pick up all the slack that I created with my insistence on only working for 4 hours each day. I would say that day numero dos was right about on par with Daniel-saan's second lesson.

































In normal Blake fashion day three was off to another late start since I didn't arrive until about 5:00. My tardiness didn't hinder the true workhorses (read mom and Aunt Laura *special note* Grandma Litter was actually taking my place and guiding this great chariot of awesome craftsmanship toward victory in my absence) of this operation though and they were ready to move right along as soon as I got there. Most everything was done except for the decking and I got right to that. These pictures are from the end of day three which I would say didn't go quite as well as Daniel-saan's.
















While I have been busy becoming more awesome (as if that were possible), Adeline has been cheering me on and has been busy being cute. Hard work but somebody's gotta do it.

I'm Baaaaack...

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Posted by Blake, Kimberly, Adeline, and Oliver | Posted in | Posted on Saturday, July 11, 2009

So I'm sure that you're all wondering where we have been and what we've been up to. Surely that small person who was born unto us only mere weeks ago can't be occupying all the time which we have allotted to blogging....correct.
Surely I wasn't abducted by space aliens after being caught in a southern Ohio wheat field stomping out crop circles in the middle of the night then unjustly subjected to anal probing and other types of horrendous testing....correct (for more than one reason, everyone knows that space aliens don't actually anal probe anymore *that was old technology that went by the wayside in the mid 70's*, and I just haven't had the heart to disappoint anymore farmer's wives....or have I?
Surely I haven't been studying up for next year's material in order to get a jump on the rest of the class as one faithful blogfan had suggested...correct again. You guys are good at this game.
Actually, I have been a little busy being NFOTY (New Father Of The Year) which is not actually an elected position but rather an appointed position which I have the honor of holding this year thanks to two of the three electoral appointers that were being counted in this house......


Thanks kids for the votes!

Now on to some serious business. Everyone has been asking the same questions and since pretty much everyone I know reads this awesome piece of literary genius I think it would be most appropriate for me to answer them here.

1. How is Adeline sleeping? Good
2. How is Adeline eating? Good
3. Is she allowing us to sleep? Yep
4. Who does she look like? Yet to be determined, I'm kinda leaning toward Oscar though.
5. How the heck did I become so freakin' awesome? Dunno, nature? nurture?
6. Why did Blake have to dominate Jeremy at pool basketball this year? Again, dunno. Probably had something to do with the NFOTY award though.
7. Is fatherhood what you expected? Better than ever imagined.

With that heartfelt note I will leave you with some pictures of the little lady and a promise...I will post at least once a week from now on as long as you promise to stop sending hate mail.






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