Happy 7th birthday, Amelia!
Author Archives: Andrea Middleton
Currently at Reddit, I spent 10 years as a community organizer on the WordPress open source project. I'm also an avid reader, wine enthusiast, and parent of two.
Dunkers
Birthday bike; family ride
Amelia got a new bicycle for her birthday (which is on Tuesday)! To celebrate, we went out for an early morning bike ride right after breakfast, to Water Tower Park.
Poached eggs
“Amelia, let’s measure.”
This is how the kids see how close Baxter is to reaching Amelia’s height. Oddly, he never seems to catch up. 
“It’s a picture of nighttime!”
No Luke, it’s a trap!
A video in which Baxter explains why it’s a trap.
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony: an interpretation
We discovered that by combing Baxter’s hair straight back, he looks “just like Beethoven.” These precocious moppets know a few bars of the 5th, and agreed to perform it on video.
The head and the ear
Amelia: I’m sitting at the head of the table!
Baxter: And I’m sitting at the ear!
What happens when the kids help with yard work
Halloween!
Halloween devilled eggs!
The Thing With The Stuff 