May 11, 2012
GIDEON IS TWO YEARS OLD!
Gideon is two! We won't pretend it's all been easy, but most of it's been wonderful. Some highlights from the life of Gid:
A big year for sure, but, like your brother before you there's surely some things you have not done, right? Let's compare:
What hadn't Felix ever done at age two, and Gideon by comparison?
* Flown in a helicopter (though you sure do talk about it often enough): Gid is more into fire trucks. Hasn't ridden one yet.
* Said your middle name: ditto.
* Had a haircut: not so! Gideon has had some subtle trimming here and there.
* Attended an inauguration in person (though you did watch simulcast): Not your fault, no inaugurations to attend, yet.
* Gone to any Dutch island other than Schiermonnikoog or Terschelling: How sad, you've been to none of them, but at least you'll get to visit the Netherlands for the first time ever in a week or so!
* Felt regret: Huh, that's an interesting one. I can't quite put my finger on it, but somehow I think you may have felt this. You certainly don't let it stop you though.
* Had a sibling: Oh yes you have!
* Eaten a steak (though you have had chorizo!): Wow, that's a difference, you've eaten a TON of steak. In fact, you've had chicken, pork, fish, shrimp, crab, oysters, goat, lamb, and buffalo.
* Contemplated anything: True dat.
* Gone poo poo in the toilet without freaking out: Or, for that matter, at all.
* Scratched yourself: Nope, never done it.
* Let us sleep in: You have, Gideon, though not recently, hint hint.
Happy, happy birthday, Gideon, WE LOVE YOU!
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May 5, 2012
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Reminds me how rarely we get a shot with us all in it.
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May 3, 2012
Grandpa's visit
We had a visit from Grandpa. This produced, in addition to the Wild Things reading, a visit to the Autodesk Gallery (if you haven't been let me know and I'll give you a personal tour), pictured here (along with another nice shot or two):
The second shot there is of Grandpa holding Felix up so he could use the 3D photo booth, which contraption produced this:
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May 1, 2012
Movie: Where the Wild Things are
Is he really afraid? Does he even know the meaning of the word? I guess he kind of is and does, which is ironic, because Gid, you are truly the wildest thing of them all.
Ah hah! It's the reader, not the content, that scares him.
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April 30, 2012
Movie: Pasta fasta
Note the total absence of chewing.
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Movie: Gideon rides on
I don't usually think of Gideon as mysterious, but there's something mysterious about how he just rides on here.
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April 17, 2012
Movie: Gideon rides
This one comes with a story, and don't stop me if I've told you it. Felix, as you may recall, was quite the speed demon on his walkabike, but truth is he didn't take to it right away: the bike showed up on his second birthday, a gift from saba and safta, but he hardly touched it until about half a year later. Good thing: by then he was tall enough for it, and, as important, had learned to stop when you told him to.
Gideon is taller than Felix was at that age, and even more independent, which is really saying something. In fact, he's so independent that he decided to go and get himself a bike. I was walking downtown with him a couple of months ago and he suddenly took a left up an alley. I followed and found him in front of the door to a tiny bike shop (really, how many does Fairfax need?). He knocked on the window, the proprietor came around, and before I could advise him not to let the bull into his shop he opened the door and said "Hi Gideon!" Gideon, taking this as his due, walked right in, pulled a helmet off the wall, and got onto a walkabike sitting there next to the counter. He then walked it out of the shop. After the fourth time this happened I gave up and bought it for him. And now, not yet two, he rides:
It's not much of a movie, but it's a clear sign of things to come. And that's the problem: he definitely cannot be relied upon to stop when you tell him to, and he will soon be able to bike fast enough to get himself into real trouble. This is the sort of thing I mean when I say he's a more challenging child than his brother.
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Movie: Knock knock
Who's there? Gideon, that's who!
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April 12, 2012
Snout
Felix, from the top of the slide: "Go stand by the snout of the slide."
Dada, from near the bottom: "How do you know the bottom of the slide is called the 'snout'?"
Felix: "Because a slide is like a glacier."
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April 8, 2012
Tough negotiator
At last night's Seder, Felix traded the afikomen for parsley.
Many of you won't get this, but for those who do it's hilarious.
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GIDEON IS TWO YEARS OLD!
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Grandpa's visit
Movie: Where the Wild Things are
Movie: Pasta fasta
Movie: Gideon rides on
Movie: Gideon rides
Movie: Knock knock
Snout
Tough negotiator
Movie: Felix gets belted
The Boys and the Girl
Movie: Gideon and the gusher
Bad idea
Nice try
Felix speaks
Gideon eats
Felix's 5th birthday party
Family skate
Movie: The best 30 seconds of a parent's day
FELIX FIVE!
Movie: Gideon is the Whitest Baby Alive
Falling in Love
Movie: Ghost
Felix and Gid are...
Gid is...
Felix is...
Movie: Whoa!
Talk talk
Robin Hood
Movie: Spaghetti
Movie: Wool over the eyes
Gideon in oil
Movie: Monkeyboy
Proof: Gideon is dense
Movie: Tomato harvest
Movie: Bad baby
Gleaning
Movie: Peri Park free-for-all
Movie: There and back again
Felixbits: Branch dressing
Movie: Gideon eating with a spoon
Halloween 2011
Movie: Unappetizing
Movie: Should I laugh or should I cry, part 4
No escaping Giant Baby
A word or two about the boys
Movie: Klompen
Movie: Intro to Glubbuh
Movie: Dragonsong
Movie: Daw goes rrrrrr
Movie: Le artiste
Movie: Blackberrying
Movie: Angry Birds
Movie: Recent reading
Movie: Chicken
Movie: An angel on each shoulder
Movie: Boys at play
The Eagle and the Buffalo
Movie: All in a day's work
Movie: Bananas
Movie: Determination
Gideon the shill
Movie: Kung fu fighting
Movie: Gideon, playgroundmaster
Summertime in Tahoe
Movie: Enraptured
Movie: Watering hole
Movie: Gideon WALKS
Movie: Like mother like son
Movie: Dog!
Movie: Attack of the giant bubbles
Movie: Gideon realizes something
Movie: Felix's swimming
Movie: Does that do that?
Movie: Sharing ice cream
Movie: Gideon at bat
Movie: Good times in the tub
Movie: Take a bow
Movie: He's winning
Movie: Vitamins
Movie: Star War Lego Shooter Blast
Movie: Fun with Gideon
Movie: Brushing
Movie: Spoon feeding
Movie: Sharing
Movie: The tragedy that is breakfast
Really, Gid?
Movie: Gideon runs
The Rapture
Movie: Not a drop spilled
Trip to Steep Ravine
Movie: So close!
GM IS ONE YEAR OLD
Movie: Try, try, try, try, try again
Gideon this weekend
Movie: Superman rides
Movie: There's always one movie like this
Movie: Splashtime
Movie: Gideon nods
Movie: Quiet reader
Movie: Rolling down the slide
Movie: Learning to Land
Movie: Call and response
Tahoe snow
Felix is...
Movie: Come to life
Felix in NY
Movie: This is how we roll along
Movie: Drinking Gideon
Movie: Getting up with Gideon
Movie: Dumb Dumble
Felix's 4th Birthday Party
OH MY GOODNESS IT HAPPENED AGAIN: A Four Year Birthday Tribute to FELIX MILO SHULDINER!
Movie: Caps for sale
Movie: Why there aren't more movies of Gideon
Movie: How big is baby?
Angry Felix
Potty training in pictures
Movie: Felix's Favorite Food
Movie: Gideon and the music table
Movie: Old man Gideon
Back from Hawaii!
Clapping
Movie: Up and at 'em
Comparisons
Crawling
Movie: Enthusiastic lemon
Movie: Rain boots
Movie: Fuh fuh
Movie: How was your day?
Movie: Sweet (potato) Gideon
Movie: Dancing man
Losing skills
Movie: Battle bots
Movie: Hungry hungry hippo
Movie: Gideon sees his shadow
Movie: That was no accident
What the floor saw
Movie: Felix on his big bike
Halloween 2010
Movie: Where's the baby?
Movie: Gideon deflates
Movie: Gideon laughs!
Movie: Time to lower the crib
Movie: Who's that in the mirror?
Movie: Feeding Gideon
Happy 5 month birthday Gideon
Movie: The monster at the end of the book
Movie: Felix feeds Gideon
Movie: First food for Gideon
Movie: Digeon
Movie: Wagons
Movie: Felix fears
Movie: Gideon, go to sleep
Concord grape
Movie: Kickstick
Movie: What Gideon does all day
Movie: Kissing Gideon
Movie: Felix rocks out
Movie: The seaweed forager
Movie: What Felix does with Gideon when he thinks they're not being observed
Movie: Roly Poly Gideon
Movie: Brothers
Movie: Day and night
G&B
What does it mean?
Felix grows
Arlo's visit
Family times
Gideon Bits: Hands
Felix Bits: wishes
Little Arrows
Gideon goes to the doctor
Movie: Gideon grabs!
Felix Bits: Cats
Lassen Trip
Felixbits: Pizza joint
Movie: Gideon the good baby
Movie: What the elevator camera saw
Gideon in July
Felix in July
Movie: Kraftwerk
Movie: Limping Felix
The Marin County Fair
Movie: Reenacting an incident from school
Birthday party at a fire station
Gideon in June
Movie: Gideon Goes Off
Movie: Farmer Felix
Movie: Embouchure
Movie: Felix meditates
Movie: Over the Irish Sea
Movie: Felix dresses himself
Felix Bits: What is a...
Felix in the merry month of May
Movie: Felix graduates!
Movie: Life's little surprises
The Many Faces of Gideon
Gideon today
Movie: Zipline
Movie: Hungry Gideon
Movie: Gideon, Day 2
Movie: Gideon, Day 1
Meeting Gideon
Movie: Play Ball!
Felix Bits: Costco
Old times, new times
Movie: Naughty Little Kittens
Felix Bits: Kids
Felix noise
Skiing
Felixbits: Jokes
Time with Saba & Safta
Felix Bits: Pajamas
Felix goes to the dentist
Felix's 3rd birthday party
FM IS THREE YEARS OLD!
Movie: Role reversal
Movie: Spiderweb
January Felix
Movie: Learner's Permit
Movie: Orange peels
Movie: Skating
Sledding
Movie: Ain't Nobody
Felix reads?
Movie: And then
Movie: Felix Ball
Emergency preparedness
Movie: Thomas teardown
Movie: Does Felix still speak Dutch?
Movie: The Fast and the Cute
Halloween 2009
Movie: Wedding dance
Movie: Pantsing Felix
Felix in California
Movie: The Dutch manner of saying goodbye
Movie: We're in California!
Movie: Old McDonald had an Alphabet
Movie: Felix on horseback
Movie: Dada being a bear
Movie: Monkey Training
Movie: Are you mad?
Movie: Felix on the Zipline
Felix Bits: Smelling
Movie: Advance Retreat
Felix reports
Movie: And we thought we had mice
May 2009: 27 Months
Venezia!
Movie: Suspension of disbelief
Movie: Counting to 12
Movie: Marmite revisited
Movie: Behavioral Grabbag
Movie: The chaser chased
FM makes his first pie
Felix Bits: Conversation
Houffalize
FM in Philadelphia
Felix Bits: Conversation
Movie: Which hand?
Felix Bits: Counting
Movie: Kumquat eater
Movie: Ben niet bang van de wilde dieren
Movie: Close harmony
FM IS TWO YEARS OLD
Felix Bits: Conversation
Felix Bits: Words
Felix Bits: Chicken Pox
Movie: Ring around the rosie
Movie: Felix says "Felix"
Movie: Bouncing around the living room
Movie: Felix on ice
Felix Bits: Books
Felix Bits: Colors
Felix Bits: Swimming
Felix Bits: Meow
Felix Bits: Counting
Felix Bits: Sleeping and Eating
Naked baby!
Movies: Felix, Charlie, Clem...cousins
Movie: Exercising with Felix
Movies: Felix at the playground
Movie: Felix at the Albert Heijn
Months 21: October 19 - November 19
Movie: Moooooon
Movie: Sorting the Grapefruits
Movie: Honk honk
Movie: Not learning to eat just one thing at a time
Movie: Tripletake
Month 20
Movie: Keeping busy at the airport
Movie: Moodyman
Movie: Shopping with Felix
Movie: I don't know where the zipper went, Felix
Movie: Laugh boy laugh
Movie: Homey
Movie: Punishing Felix
Movie: Working in the garden
Movie: Little Dutch boy
Movie: Jungle gym agility training
Month 18
Movie: Definitely not made of sugar
Movie: Mightyungrip
Movie: Eating strawberries
Movie: Blowing Kisses
Movie: Sharing a walk and a yogurt
Movie: Hard rain
Movie: Eating spaghetti
Movie: Sweaty little sleepmonster
Month 17
Movie: Felix's new hideout
Movie: Felix the reader
Felix and the regenton
Movie: Should I laugh or should I cry, part 3
Felix makes a movie
Month 16
Movie: Mightygrip
Felix Eats on the Cheep
Movie: Pop!
Movie: Treadmill
Movie: Making tomato paste
Movie: Softly, softly
Sneak Preview: Month 15 photos
Month Fourteen
Month 14 Photos
Movie: Good Morning!
Movie: Should I laugh or should I cry? part 2
Movie: The sexy side of Felix
Movie: Potatohead
Movie: Should I laugh or should I cry?
Movie: Putting things through other things
Movie: Brushing Felix's teeth
Movie: Where's Felix?
Movie: Playing soccer
Movie: Grapefruits, part 2
Movie: Grapefruits, part 1
Movie: Mastering the Ball
Movie: Getting the boy to the bath
FM IS ONE YEAR OLD
Movie: Riding the pony
Movie: Intro to stamppot
Movie: Grass is always greener
Movie: Devouring the baby
Movie: The Oatmeal Joke
Month Eleven (Dec 19 - Jan 19)
Movie: Round and around he goes
A day at Stinson Beach
Movie: Freaking out Felix
I can haz hand-dipped corn dog?
At the Aquarium in Seattle
Movie: High five
Movie: Sleep!
Movie: Pineapple
Movie: Practicing doors
Movie: The Great Pacifier Thief
Felix hits the big city of San Francisco
Movie: Lemonhead
Movie: Making his way down the stairs
Movie: Felix loves mommy
FMS the Fearless Flyer
Movie: Felix and the magic ball
Movie: Felix and the giant cheese
Month Ten (November 19 - December 19)
Photos from Month 9
More funny faces
Movie: The "Hey Felix" game
Movie: Birthday egg yolk
Movie: The great chase
Movie: Music appreciation
Movie: The long climb
Movie: Learning to drink, part 2
Movie: Learning to drink, part 1
Movie: Hating the hood
Felix funny face
Movie: Presidential Athletic Award
Movie: Why doesn't he like me?
Movie: Felix the Cat
Movie: Fish For Felix
Movie: Felix Loves Felix
Movie: Ba Na Na
Movie: Ricecake
September 19 - October 19
A Sunny Sunday
Movie: Small but not defenseless
Movie: Too clever by half
Movie: A Tooth Unrevealed
Felix in September
Movie: Not learning to walk
Movie: Spic and span baby, part 2
Movie: Spic and span baby, part 1
Movie: Felix find your apple
Movie: Conquering the Oven
More Feeding Felix
Movie: Baby battle
Movie: Learning to walk, part 1
Month Seven: August 19 - September 19
Surrounded by so much love
On Saba's Shoulders
Felix Milo: Carpet Clasher
800 Days
Bubbles
Movie: If he eats all that...
Trouble
Felix the Fashionista
Movie: Feeding on Felix
Movie: RiverDance
Feeding Felix
Month Six (July 19 – August 19)
Movie: Stop Crawl and Roll
Coming to America
Movie: Baby Jail
Movie: Old Skool New Skool
Month Five (June 20 - July 19)
Movie: Who's that in the Mirror?
Movie: Wax On, Wax Off
Movie: Self-Feeding Baby
Movie: Early Baby Crawling, Early Baby Bribing
Movie: Look, Ma! No Hands!
Month Four (May 19 – June 19)
Oerol
Israel
Mother and Son
Movie: Desperate for a bite to eat
Movie: Multi-tasking
100 Days
Movie: Laughing
Movie: Breath of fire
Movie: Motor Skills
Movie: Co-Sleeping
Movie: SMILE!
More Milo
Baby Development
Movie: Speak!
Baby Transport
Movie: Baby in the Bath (rated R)
Movie: Huey Lewis and the Mustard
Portugal
Old Friends New Friends
Movie: Dream Dream Dream
Movie: Falling Awake
Quiet Moments
Movie: Revenge of Learning To Suck
Medical Moments
Movie: Learning to Suck
The Many Faces of Felix
Movie: Art Film
Movie: Waking up...or not
Why Did We Do It?
A Few Early Portraits
In the First Month
Movie: Hiccups
Meeting Relatives
A Period of Adjustment
Movie: Dear Felix
Movie: Calm Baby
Movie: Dance, Baby, Dance
Movie: First Movements
A Child is Born
Movie: The Fetal Escape
Being Pregnant
Baby blogging
