Someone’s a bit more yellow, and I don’t mean cowardly.

The lighting has a little to do with it, but there is definitely a hair-color difference…

She’s chubbier than Laurana was, that’s for sure. She seems to lack the jaundice too, so hopefully we won’t need the raver blanket this time!

Laurana is fascinated by Adi, and loves to kiss her and pretend to feed her.

We’ll have more pictures up later on our Picasaweb account (http://picasaweb.google.com/yumbrad) … But wanted to get a couple up right away as photographic proof that we have some baby. You’ll have to take our word for it that she’s ours.

World, meet Adelle Morrison. Adelle, meet world.

P.S. Oh ya… She answers to “Adelle Morrison Bozarth” :) … Morrison is Brad’s grandma’s maiden name!

Sarah was also very efficient. One contraction and two minutes worth of pushing and Adelle was here! (That’s one contraction with pushing – quite a few contractions before that with no pushing). Pictures to follow soon, no compact flash reader here at the hospital :)

Baby #2 seems to be a bit more lackadaisical than Laurana. He/she isn’t in a hurry to come out. So, in the meantime, we had some fun with Grandma and “Gracaw” (as Laurana says) this past week. We went to our favorite picture beach, Manresa, and Laurana was a good model. But just so you know how judicious I am with your time, this album has been trimmed from 97 pictures off of the camera to only 13 pictures in the final album! Only the best for the bozarthfamily.com readers :)

Oh, and breaking with tradition, this very recent album is going up in non-chronological order. We still need to get caught up from Christmas… Enjoy!

St. Patrick’s Day at Manresa Beach

Laurana has quite a few words that she somehow created, and uses consistently, but are definitely not “English.” Here are some of the ones we know of, in roughly ascending order of weirdness:

Dow = Down

Dow = Up

Moy = More

Tanta = Santa

Ank-do = Thank you

Pees (always whispered) = Please

Aiyou = I love you

Diddy = TV

Aiyo aiyo = (a request to sing/listen to Old MacDonald – a reference to E-I-E-I-O)

Baba = Belly Button

Doo = Nose (which is weird, because she’s great at saying “No” and can say “pees”)

Boppy = Bunny

Doggy = Cracker

Shhhh = Fish

Bapoo = Diaper

Mah-moh = Water (drinking water, bathing water)

Pihpih = Pretty and/or jewelry

Deedle-eedle-eedle-eedle (repeating) = Dirty

And my personal favorite:

Hop-ssss (always whispered) = Flower(s)

Additionally, she is a master at animal sounds, and says “woowoo” for a dog, “mow” for a cat, “weewee” for pig (as in this little piggy went wee wee wee all the way home), “booo” for cow, “baa” for sheep, “oohooh” for monkey (waving hands up and down), she beats her chest for gorilla, chomps her teeth for alligator, wrinkles her nose for bunny, roars and makes “claws” for lions and tigers and bears (oh my). Her duck is so good, trying to type it out would do it an injustice; suffice it to say it is very duck-like. She also says “ssss” for snake, “gob gob gob” for turkey, “eeeeee he he he hee” (like a horse neighing) for horse and various versions of high pitched squeaks for birds, mice, and chicks. Finally, my favorite is “ahhga-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle (repeat as long as desired)” for rooster.

And the rest of 2006 (almost)… We’ve been busy putting pictures up using Picasaweb – it’s very easy to upload and everything gets sorted by date. You can find all our albums at http://picasaweb.google.com/yumbrad

We will still post to bozarthfamily.com in the event of big album updates, additions of pets, births of new children, etc…

Quite an improvement over that old cliché “Christmas in July,” no?

Album 1: Hanging out at Grandma and Grandpa’s
Album 2: Christmas tree decorating
Album 3: Laurana’s First Christmas
Album 4: Laurana 6 months
Album 5: Crib photo shoot
Album 6: Visit with Gramma Swarm

Laurana’s been walking around the office all night, just as a preview of what is happening in the non-time-warped construct we call “reality” ’round here.

Good Dog Carl. Carl Goes Shopping. Good books! Sarah, efficient jotter-downer that she is, had left out the common portions of the book titles, only putting what was necessary to identify the two uniquely. I figured I would relieve the internet at large from waiting on pins and needles for the resolution of the last post’s dilemna. Here are some pictures!

Album 1: Christmas Tree Hunting and Gingerbread Housing
Album 2: Mountain View Christmas
Album 3: Gingerbread Housing Round Two
Album 4: Laurana Sprouts Antlers
Album 5: Laurana and Tiger
Album 6: Laurana and Taylor
Album 7: Bozarths and Reeds in the cave
Album 8: Laurana with Grand Jct Santa

Slowly but surely we are catching up. I’ve written quite a few scripts in the process, so each time it is a little faster and more automatic to get things up on the web. Eventually, all it will take is for Laurana to burp and a complex script will kick off to put a picture of the moment on the internet.

What does the title of today’s post mean? Who knows? I’ll tell you: Sarah knows. But she’s in bed now; she couldn’t tough it out while I wrote captions and played in Photoshop, so she can’t explain to me what that little phrase means. It’s written on a Post-It™ note on her desk, and I can only assume it’s of the gravest importance. No Google matches for it (well, until Google finds this). No further explanation. But it has a comforting feel – a way of meandering off the tongue that evokes a warm, fuzzy, going-beyond-the-call-of-the-average-pet feeling. Perhaps it will be the title of my first album. Bradley Bozarth – Good Dog Goes Shopping. To bide the time whilst waiting for that to be released, perhaps you’d like to view these albums?

Album 1: Photoshoot with Ruthann
Album 2: Manresa Beach in Red and Orange
Album 3: A New Puppy and Tim’s Birthday
Album 4: Laurana at 5 Months and Thanksgiving
Album 5: Laurana’s First Meal

You’re a gooooood dog
A very-very-very good dog
Don’t forget
On your way home
To pick me up some egg nog

I thought I’d share what I hope to do with this site in time… I’d eventually like to partition out the “pictures” part of bozarthfamily.com into an easily browseable photo album. And easily updateable, which would help us keep, well, up to date. Then we could write about special happenings here in the blog, and link to the album. But we wouldn’t have to create a blog entry for every series of pictures we put up, like we do now, since the pictures would have their own separately accessible interface. Ok, this has been the most boring entry ever to hit this site. It needs something guaranteed to liven it up. Like, say, a monkey. Even a small one will do.

Heheheh. That felt good. Ok, now, without further ado, another round ‘o pics!

Album 1: Connor, Shana, Mason, & Ryder at Las Palmas
Album 2: Laurana at 4 Months
Album 3: Laurana’s First Pumpkin Patch
Album 4: Halloween-time 2005