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Have been in Portland for the last couple days with the fam and having a good time. Charlotte, unfortunately, has come down with a cold, but doses of Children’s Motrin, plentiful activities, and a slew of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan episodes on daddy’s iPhone have soothed her.

Friday was taken up by the trip down and a quickish stop at Target in Seattle.

Yesterday was poking around the downtown and the Pearl District – always lots of fun. My darling wife got me a belated Christmas gift is a swanky new pair of Kliptch Image S4i earphones for the above-mentioned iPhone.

We also stumbled upon a big sale at the Pearl Adidas store (which is closing up shop), and I scored some swanky new Adidas Country 2 kicks at a deep discount.

Altogether too much sugar courtesy of Voodoo Doughnuts ended the day for us. Yum yum.

Today’s plan: the Oregon Zoo.

(And my damn laptop is having issues with pictures for some reason, hence the text only entry. Grumble.)

Recently Charlotte

Here's a little slideshow of some iPhone snaps of the wee one taken over the recent holiday (and one from a touch earlier).



The holiday has been very nice, with visits to the Aquarium (on a rainy Christmas Day) and the Christmas Train (on Boxing Day -- no rain) and assorted hanging as a fam.

Family Fun (with Photographic Evidence)

Sara suggested a family lunch at Baby Eats today, and it was great. The place is a really nice and airy restaurant with a huge play area that is the central feature. Char played and explored to her heart’s content, and we met a friend of Sara’s and her son there.

In an uncharacteristic bout of quick thinking, I even got her to snap a pic of Sara, Charlotte and me together.

Charlotte, Vladimir Ilyich, and Me

Sara has already posted this, but here’s a nice shot of the wee one and I posing with the kick ass bronze Lenin in Freemont in Seattle.

We stopped in Fremont on Monday on the way out of Seattle and had a good time looking around. I really liked the Fremont Book Company and Destee Nation, where I picked up this Tee:

Did we actually get to Top Pot Doughnuts? Of course not. . .

The day (a week ago! bad blogger!) before we went downtown Seattle and hit a few shops. I found a very nice Pentagram Typography Calendar at Peter Miller Books:

We also found our new fondue pot on sale at City Kitchen:

All in all a great trip.

On the Road and Feelin’ Fine

Sara, Charlotte and I are in Seattle this weekend visiting friends and indulging in easy access to Target, Nordstrom's, and other sign-posts of civilization (or the doom thereof).

Char Char did very well on the drive down, sleeping for about 45 minutes and then entertaining herself for most of the rest of the ride.

We are staying in hipster-land (Capitol Hill) in the guest suite at a friend’s condo complex. Very nice.

Last night saw us sample a pie from Zaw – a yummy bake-your-own pizza place. Today we catch up with said friends and do some shopping, strolling and all the rest.