August 2006 Archives

This weekend I was the surprise guest at my Grandma's surprise 60th birthday party.

I was invited to give the keynote speech at the upcoming Semiannual Northeastern Regional Babies Conference and a friend told me I should video my speech for practice. I was also told to open with a joke and to remember to thank all the little people.

Today we walked down to J.J. Byrne Park, where the"Old Stone House" is located. I'm still a little small for swings, but crawling up the slide was pretty cool

update:
Inside the Old Stone House they have a diorama depicting the Battle of Brooklyn. And I just love anything that makes me look giant.

Some of you may think nothing of a giant grocery store; but here in Brooklyn it's a bit of a novelty. The other day we went to the new Fairway in Red Hook. They have an entire baby food aisle... An ENTIRE aisle!

Mom, dad and I spent a couple hours strolling the boardwalk at Coney Island. Unfortunately, my afternoon was marred by blatant discrimination and narrow-mindedness...
Wait for me to grow another thirty inches, and your precious "Cyclone" and other amusement park antiques will long be recycled into chopsticks and hubcaps.

... On a lighter note, we got to visit our friends Kalene and Dan at Coney Island Shortcakes. Mom won't let me eat dairy yet, but I'm told they're delicious.

It's wicked hot out there. I've been wearing nothing but a diaper for three days now.

Today is my grandma's sixtieth birthday; and I decided to design a birthday card for her all by myself.

I started blocking out some traditional birthday motifs and began to stitch together an overarching design language. As I was creating a cohesive visual vocabulary that reenforces the celebratory underpinnings of this piece; I began to consider complementary copy directions.

Her birthday is today, and I was getting pressed for time when I realized I can't read or spell. I'll probably have to let this sit for her sixty-first birthday. By then, I'll be ready.

Happy birthday grandma!