cupcake eatin' day

celebrated claire's birthday at school today (along w/ another classmate's birthday and chinese new year -- gung hay fat choy). more photos to come.

cupcake bakin' day

gonna make 36+ cupcakes for claire's birthday/chinese new year celebration at her school tomorrow.

in honor of both, i'm making yellow cupcakes w/ whipped cream frosting and red sprinkles. and to make it easy on me, i'm just spiking two boxes of cake mix and frosting out of the container.

(update: 8:37pm... just remembered that i still need to frost the cupcakes -- they've been cooling since about 1 this afternoon. been so preoccupied w/ other stuff. i'll get to it shortly.)

(update #2: 10:53pm... the cupcakes are done. took about an hour.)

she & him -- in the sun

you just gotta (heart) zooey.

claire's special request, part II

guess "no sign of life" doesn't cut it for the putch.

ok go -- no sign of life

here's a band i'd like to see live.

first day of my last class till graduation... done.

just 16 weeks of classes, one midterm and a final and i'm done. of course, i left the hardest class to take for last: astronomy w/ a lab, but i'm gonna P/NC it and not worry about the grade, just gotta pass.

kinda surreal being in the science building (SB). when i first started at queens college in the '80s it was known as the NEW science building (NSB).

out front at the park briar

snow day for claire

...and last day of freedom before going back to queens college for me.

VT bears, july 2007

these photos were taken by my mom right when claire's "i-refuse-to-smile-for-pictures" phase was just ending.

i guess w/ the putch's 9th birthday coming up...

i'm feeling sorta nostalgic for the early years. here's a photo of claire at 2-months-old. funny, i thought i'd never have a kid that would wear pink... and then came claire.