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- Monday, February 26, 2024:
Wildlife Cam Day
The 12 best shots from over 2600 captures, November 2023 - February 2024
Most Common Captures:
Squirrel going up tree
Squirrel going down tree
Deer family milling around
Stark winter shadows moving across the ground
Our butts
- Monday, February 19, 2024:
Maia's Art Day
This is the cutest owl that anyone has ever drawn, anywhere.
Artifacts from sea turtle week.
There are 7 kinds of sea turtles. Sea turtles can stay underwater for seven hours.
Lily the Silly Cat by Maia Uri
Once upon a time there was a silly cat named Lily.
"You are silly"
Your cat friend
"Lily tricked me"
Lily tricked the other cats. So the other cats tricked her. I'm unusually invested in how this (still unfinished) story will turn out.
My favorite snack is Goldfish because they are salty.
- Monday, January 15, 2024:
Maia's Art Day
Scale maps of Cat Town, Bunny Town, and Dog Town, all along Route 7 in Loudoun County. Maia lives in Bunny Town on Hop Court. The guy who put Mew Ct next to Mew Rd in Cat Town probably designed North Arlington too.
"Let's play ninjas. Whoever gets spotted is out. Everyone is a ninja."
Maia created a pet store one night when she was supposed to be going to bed. Each cat had a storybook describing its temperament and what other cats it enjoyed being around. Rebecca drew the cat sketches as a kid.
Over Christmas, Maia watched the Super Mario Brothers movie, played Untitled Goose Game, created a butterfly and Amber using her 3D doodler, and we...
- Monday, December 18, 2023:
Maia's Art Day
"My monster is spooky because he loves to scare people."
Maia's first trezur hunt: "Where leaves fall, a box hides next to the tree."
A surprisingly accurate representation of our state.
"I think spiders are creepy. Especially big ones."
"Hey, come back here!"
We do!
Food, yum!
- Wednesday, November 08, 2023:
Maia's Art Day
Let's all feel happy today.
This is a unicorn princess named Sunbeam, from a series of chapter books that Maia is engulfing.
And this one is Prism, from the same series, of course.
Many nights after Maia has "gone to bed", she'll pop out of her room and leave a sign for us, informing us of upcoming events. Rainbow Dash Day was a Halloween costume creation event sponsored by My Little Pony.
Maia started by copying these song lyrics out of her "Purrmaids" book. She then invented a melody for it. Aftewards, she added even more original songs to the songbook, such as the future hit, "Where'd the Magic Bunny Go?" ...
- Monday, October 02, 2023:
Fourteenth Anniversary Day
As anniversaries pass, and senility robs us of our wedding memories, we'll always have the photographic evidence to fall back on.
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- Wednesday, July 26, 2023:
Maia's Art Day
Notable artwork from Maia's kindergarten portfolio
L: I went to Massanutten. (mom) R: I went to the water park. (waterfall, mom, water slide, dad)
L: I had a big party! (featuring Aunt Carol and Uncle Dave) R: I like my bunny.
L: I see two cats taking a nap. (mom, tree, cat, nap, me) R: I see six cats. (cats one, two, three, four, five, six)
L: I see the Cat Town Castle. R: The caterpillar turned into a butterfly. (me, jar, butterfly)
I see a flower. (grass, me, flower, tree)
I picked the flower. (grass, me, flower, tree)
I put the flower in a vase. (fl...
- Wednesday, July 19, 2023:
Maia's Art Day
Notable artwork from Maia's kindergarten portfolio
L: I see a cat. (me, cat, rap?, path, stepping stones) R: I see a bunny. (me, bunny, tree, grass)
L: I like pie. R: I see the tree. (star, tree, dad, me, mom, cat, pillow)
L: I like my dress. R: I like my shirt.
L: I see a cat. R: I see a bunny.
L: The black cat sat on the wall. R: I see a bunny.
- Wednesday, June 28, 2023:
Maia's Art Day
Notable artwork from May 2023
"Once a pon a time there was a buro.
A littll bunny livd in it.
The bunny wnet to the garden
All winter long he had eneuf vegee's.
This is wat it looks like in his buro."
A dragon!
L: A true story about a flower. R: "I see a bunny"
"L: I am planting flowers." Maia's final kindergarten report card noted how she liked to label all of the things in her pictures.
R: "It's felld day!" Maia was excited to eat popsicles and get wet on her school's Field Day.
- Monday, June 05, 2023:
Maia's Art Day
More notable artwork from April 2023.
They draw a lot of self portraits in Art class these days.
Instruction manual for riding a bike.
She has an umbrella to keep her dry.
Two bunnies waving at each other from across the river. I'm most impressed by the advanced use of perspective in this art. The far bunny is smaller! The near bunny is facing away! Artistry!
- Wednesday, April 26, 2023:
Maia's Art Day
Notable artwork from April 2023
L: The bunny has five colorful eggs. R: She is helping the Earth by recycling.
One day, Maia experimented with different art styles based on an art book she received from her grandparents.
L: Bunnies buying cats and dogs. R: Some of Maia's school art that we ended up purchasing on a placemat, magnets, coffe cups, and stickers.
L: Maia invents math homework for herself (The operations goes from bottom to top for some reason). R: I see a cat.
On Potato Day, Maia labeled everything in her room with a "POTATOS" tag and gave a presentation on the noble potato....
- Wednesday, March 22, 2023:
Maia's Art Day
Notable artwork from March 2022
Hang on to your hats. I'm going to post more of Maia's artwork because I simultaneously want to remember it forever but don't want it all cluttering up the living room shelves!
These cats are CRAZY.
Half of us are surprised by the cat.
Though not perfect, Maia's phonetic spelling of words is improving.
This is the lyrics sheet for a song Maia wrote about love.
I'm not in this picture because I'm "in the kitchen making dinner". Can you spot Ian's band-aid?
A butterfly, of course.
Rebe...
- Wednesday, March 08, 2023:
Maia's Art Day
Notable artwork from February 2022
Maia's artwork is increasing in output and starting to remind me of my own early art .
The cat is sad that the bunny ate all of her carrots.
Technically the truth.
A Valentine's caterpillar.
Looks like Maia will be adopting the lesser known MM/YY/DD format, using snowflakes as a divider.
Maia is really into Number Blocks right now.
These sea things were drawn using a "How to Draw" book I got her.
Highly accurate mapwork.
- Friday, February 10, 2023:
Maia's Art Day
Notable artwork from November 2022 - February
Another collection of scary monsters.
Various buildings in Cattown. Some have flowers growing out of the roofs.
A vertical map of a bunny's burrow. The mommy bunny is asleep in the bedroom but the baby bunny's butt is on the mommy bunny's face.
Maia's kindergarten teacher is currently trying to nudge Maia towards making less flamboyant As.
The last smudgy bunny is Olaf Bunny.
Groundhog's Day!
- Wednesday, January 11, 2023:
Video Day
Here is Maia's original retelling of the classic Halloween book, "Five Little Pumpkins", but with bunnies and a special cat guest star. This was recorded in October 2022.
- Friday, December 09, 2022:
BD Cartoon Day, Part V
a selection of original cartoons from the business development Slack channel I maintain at work
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- Friday, November 04, 2022:
Maia's Art Day
Notable artwork from September - October
The cat is friends with the bird. It flies out of the tree to make friends with the squirrel. The mouse is scared.
Here are some mazes that Maia made in September. She wanted Rebecca and I to compete in a speed mazing competition. In the upper right one, you have to get the carrot through the bunny and into the toilet.
This is a set of switchback trails leading up Bunny Mountain, while airplanes fly overheard.
Maia drew this in kindergarten for a "What I Did This Summer" assignment. Clockwise, she swam in her cousins' pool, made popsicles, played soccer with the neighbours...
- Wednesday, November 02, 2022:
Dump Truck Day
What's the process for reevaluating the accreditation of a School of Music? Like, hypothetically, the one that graduated this composer?
- Monday, October 03, 2022:
Thirteenth Anniversary Day
As anniversaries pass, and senility robs us of our wedding memories, we'll always have the photographic evidence to fall back on.
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- Friday, September 23, 2022:
Maia's Art Day
Even at 4 (this was painted in May), Maia was better at watercolours than I ever was.
A rare crossover fiction between Bunnytown and Cattown. They are sharing near a volcano.
This is a bunny family with a baby bunny hopping in the background. You can see the action lines.
Maia drew this bunny with fancy coloured pencils at her grandparents' house.
One of Maia's first Kindergarten assignments, she decided that the squiggly line was the butt of a fish.
This is a tree at sunset. The tree was handcrafted and artisanally cut by Maia as well.