Deadeye Miles

Young Miles went to the range with Dad and Uncle David recently. He's pretty good with a BB gun at garage distance, and has good understanding of the basic safety rules.

After orienting him to the operation of a .22, we let him try his luck at a 100-yard 8-inch metal plate, figuring he'd shoot in the general area.

The little bugger went 14 for 15 shots before a miss.

David let him try his .17 HMR, which is a zippy shooter out to 200 yards.

Miles hit the plate first time at 200 yards.

Dad shot many years before he could reliably hit at 200 yards. Miles did it first shot.

And second shot...

And third, etc.

He then started playing 'golf' with David. Rifle Golf is where you take turns shooting at golf balls laying on the ground between 50 and 100 yards. He was pretty good, staying close with David. No handicap for this kid!

(For the non-shooters out there, a golf ball at 100 yards is a damn hard target)

So now he NEEDS his own, Miles-size rifle.

Fun with Nana and Grandpa

The great prognosticator

On June 1st, just a few days ago, Sara posted:


Looks like summer is here in CA. Yeah!!!!

It's all her fault:

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA.

.DAY ONE... TODAY
AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL CONTINUE TO SCATTERED SHOWERS THROUGH
TONIGHT.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY. GUSTY WINDS WILL
CONTINUE AS WELL THROUGH AT LEAST SUNDAY.

Now, keep in mind that out here, "scattered showers" really means, "blue sky" followed by "knock-you-over gullywashers"

Yes, for a very rare occurrence, we have rain in June.

Lessons

While Nana and Grandpa were here, several lessons were taught. Helen had her first lesson in riding a tricycle, Miles got in some more batting practice with Grandpa, Helen learned to walk on the dirt and crawl through a tunnel.
I will post more photos later this weekend. Until then have a great one.

Summer is here

For those of you still waiting to plant the garden or just planted, we out here in Southern CA are already enjoying the fruits of our labor.
Yesterday I picked two summer squashes from our very first garden. They were very yummy. Tomorrow we will be having blt sandwiches for dinner with fresh lettuce from the garden.
Looks like summer is here in CA. Yeah!!!!
Stay tuned for more pics of Sara's Mom and Dad's visit, plus pics from Miles' graduation from kindergarten.

More birthday celebrating

Helen enjoyed her second birthday celebration as well as the first.

Happy 1st Birthday Helen!!!

Today May 19, 2009 we celebrated Helen's first birthday. We went down to the beach for a little bit and then came back and had some ice cream cake. She loved the taste of the ice crem, but wasn't too sure about touching it. She would take a big bite of ice cream cake, but then she would get brain freeze and cry, all the while wanting more ice cream to put into her mouth.
We will be doing a big barbeque on Saturday for her.
Mom and Dad are having a great time, and really enjoying their visit.

A week of firsts part 1

Ok, so Helen started out on one side of the room, and then crawled over to the couch and started walking back to the side she had just come from. Like I said, getting pictures of your baby walking is not easy. I hope the pictures explain what her first steps looked like.

A week of firsts part 2

Ok, it's really hard to get a good picture of your kid taking her first steps. So, these pictures are appearing in the order they were taken to tell you the story of how she made it from the couch to the other side of the room where our TV is.

A week of firsts part 3

Well, the grandparents have been here a whole week, and we've managed to pack a lot into that one week. Let's see, Helen decided it was time to get up off the knees and took her first steps towards her Grandpa last Thursday. Of course, Mom didn't have the camera ready, so these pics were taken a little while later the same evening.