Leger's Landing

Arrrrgh!

Imagine the absurdity of the headline in the 21st Century: "How to Survive a Pirate Attack"
On FoxNews.com today.

Birthdays and Babies

Got a chance to celebrate Keenan's 2nd Birthday, with lots of family. Keenan brought along his little sister (6-weeks ish) who got acquainted with cousin Leilani, Granma and Great-granma.

Good day for splashing around in the wading pool outside and relaxing. PIcs at B&B album.

Update: Sis Beth added more pics on facebook- don't know if you can see these without friend-ing her, but here's the photo album: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/album.php?aid=2075058&id=1177923869 

Going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo

Took granddaughter Lani (2 1/2) to the LA Zoo for her first time ever.

It was a little confusing to her at first (no, not Zasu- the character in Lion King, "the zoo"). But she figured something was different when she saw the flamingos. It was a hot day so we hustled to see some of the more well-known critters - sleeping lions (Simba) and gorillas (like in Tarzan).

She liked the giraffes, a small family of mom, dad and "baby", we think. The sea lion was confusing again - (lion?), but she did get to pet a goat in the petting zoo. The zoo keeper asked me to take the zoo map out of my back pocket - the goats like to eat 'em I guess.

The gorillas, and orangutans were cool. Very large fellows, who stared at you or ignored you, but definitely seemed to believe they were far superior than those goofy, funny looking skinny creatures with hats and glasses and whatnots. Hrumph, better to just ignore them.

Check out the pics in Zoo Zoo gallery.

New Arrival

Sean and Bree welcomed Shaylon Rene on Saturday morning, June 26 - weighing 6lbs 8oz and 19 inches. We all think she looks like daddy at the moment. Her eyes may be blue/gray/hazel -tough to tell, she was sleeping a lot when we first saw her.  Big brother Keenan is happy and curious. All the rest of us are pleased as punch at the little squirt.

Picture here and in Shaylon's Arrival album.

Posting New Pics

Okay, just a teeny bit behind. Trying to catch up with photos, starting with the new album that's from, um, last Christmas. Ah well, enjoy.

Update: Added pics from Keenan's 1st Birthday party. Why do insist on having one-year-olds get messy with  Birthday cake? Also shows Keenan's human cousin Lani and his bow-wow cousin Starbucks. And a pirate - cause it's fun dressing kids up in silly clothes.

Another Update: Lani goes to the beach for the first time with her daddy. A little unsure at first, but then she seems to like the cold water, as long as someone is holding on - kinda like everybody else in the world, come to think of it.

Supergirl and sidekick

Supergirl, with pink emblem, cape and shoes, and her faithful furry sidekick, explore the adventure-filled backyard recently. See Supergirl photo album.

Swimmin - sorta

The grandkiddos stopped by and decided to try the little swimmin' hole - with about 6 inches of water. Leilani had a bit of a cold so just got her feet splashed in a couple times, but Keenan loved it. Take a gander at that super-duper absorbent diaper! In the photo album.

Easter and 1st Birthday

Yeah, it's a little late, but anyway there's some new pix in the Easter and 1st Birthday album. Cousins Leilani and Keenan enjoyed Easter with the family, and grandma and grandpas, uncle, aunts and other cousins all joined.

Leilani's first birthday was at a park, with cake, toys, and, of course, a pinata. Check it out.

Toddling Time Pictures

Uploaded a few new pics to the Toddling Time album. Discover that we aren't using our camera as much as our picture-takin' cellphones. So there's lots more pictures on the phones that we'd like to share, it's just a technical challenge to transfer them from phone to web.

Keenan and Leilani are really scooting around now, and discovering the joys to making a mess with toys. Grandma and Grandpa got a toy box in self-defense, to corral all the stuff, but it seems to be multiplying. Great-grandparents are also enjoying visits from the munchkins, but for any who'd like to see their progress, check out the photos.

Enjoy.

Christmas Time 2008

Lots of activity this Christmas. New babies add lots of running around and cute pix. See the Christmas 2008 photo album.

Our family visited Beth and Grandpa L. on Christmas eve with Sean, Bree and Keenan. Some pix in our gallery, but also see the photos on Beth's blog. She put together a tricky slide show with Santa!

We also went over to Grandma and Grandpa E's place on Christmas day and swarmed around, about twenty of us, chowing down and opening presents. Even had a little fashion show - see the pix.

Dan and John managed to get in a little fishing, and came away with a pretty good prize.

You can read more about the adventure in Dan's posting on the fishing site he visits a lot.  Note that some sailors there are, um, salty.

We even had crazy weather here for a few days - cold enough overnight to put frost on the grass and on the cars' windshields. Must've been below freezing with the wind, but in calm air maybe 38 or 39.  Or course, a few days later it's in the 70's again. See the photos in the album.

Good to see Kathy and Robert could make it this year. He just graduated from University of Texas (Longhorns) and is about to start a new engineering job.  

Got a call too from Glen Sr. in Nebraska, where they had real snow that sticks on the ground. Phone got passed to just about everybody - wondered who paid for that call.

Suppose I should mention that a certain large-eared fellow did something real nice for Granpa Bob for his birthday. Beth apparently pulled some strings to get this to happen.