Lisa is such a sneaky devil. She organized a fabulous 40th brithday surprise party last weekend for my childhood friend Jan. The weekend before, a small group of us had gathered for an outing at her fave Atlanta restaurant – Savage Pizza (margherita on whole wheat, ‘natch) – as an excellent decoy to the *real* big event. While Jan may have been slightly suspicious with all the cleaning going on in the house, she was blown away by the assembled crowd of 40+ friends and family when she walked in. Enjoy the gallery here. But no, I have not posted the photo of Jan and I at our senior prom. Putting that on the web just doesn’t seem like a good idea….
Sam Starts Off the New Year with a Bang!
It has been far too long since the blog’s been updated. The past several weeks have been awfully busy for everybody, so the blog has been neglected. Sam has been moving ahead by leaps and bounds. He had a great visit with his Uncle Jerry and Grandma Rita in Savannah a few weeks ago. He has also given his parents a wonderful present for the New Year – he is now sleeping through the night!!! (Most of the time, anyway). He wakes up on occasion, but now soothes himself back to a slumber. (Most of the time, anyway). He has also begun to table walk with a fervor – yesterday, he went round and round and round the coffee table in the living room. He also loves to push his baby walker around the house – or any other object he can lean on! Amy swears he’s said the word ‘YES’ several times – but he doesn’t have any idea he’s said it.
It looks like we are entering the dreaded Teething Phase II (TPII). Looks like ol’ snaggletooth will have a pair of pearly whites on top to match his bottom ones. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that the whining, clinging and generally demanding waking phases give way once this teething is over. Of course, Mom and Dad just whine right back – which usually elicits one of Sam’s trademark smiles.
Workin’ Through New Years
Instead of spending New Year’s with my family to welcome in 2006, I’ve joined my other extended family in the Time Warner Center in NYC as we launch CNN.com on our very own ad server, DoubleClick’s Dart Enterprise system. We’ve been busting our butts on this for several months, and today’s efforts have gone amazingly smoothly, with teams in both Atlanta and here in NYC making everything work out. Follow this link to the gallery.
technorati tags: new years, nyc, doubleclick, advertising, adops
First Channukah!
As you can see above, Sam thoroughly enjoyed his first Channukah. He was very excited about the paper, and even more so by the cute Gund doggie inside who his promptly began to spontaneously hug. More pics of the Sagan and Handelman’s from Sarasota here.