Family Tree

From Francy:

These are several pages that Johnny Tabert sent. They are a list made up by Bunny of her mother and father's family--Frank Nallin and Sarah Flaherty. A line or two got cut off when he photocopied them and some may be lost in scanning. Bunny says that Sade's mother was named Sarah Murphy but I have Sade's death certificate which says her name was Frances. These documents are made up by whoever happens to be filling them in so who knows what the names really are.

I ran some names through google and got some interesting results. More next week.

Happy Independence Day

Mimi sent me some photos to post while until she sorts out her technical difficulties connecting to the blog.

"Here are a few pictures of Max in a suit in Norway last week. He went to Stavanger, the home town of his girlfriend, Vicki, for the wild festivities they hold every year on Independence Day (independence from Sweden and Denmark, I think). All the Norwegians wear a "bunad", the national dress Vicki is wearing. Sh is half Norwegian and half Native American (her mother). Max will be coming home to Rome in a couple of weeks, at least for a short while, after he finishes his first year at the University of Brighton."

And Marta has a site for her travels.

Guess who just got his first TOOF!

Yes, Paul's finally got his first tooth at seven and a half months -- more than two months later than any of his siblings. He sends his apologies to anyone who has spent time with him in the last week.

Coming soon to a family party near you...

One from the Archives

Ode to Monte's Stump

(Embarassed and Apologetic)

Monte, I am sorry I killed your stump.
I wish I could say it was the drinking.
But really I forgot to do my thinking.
And now you know your sister married a hump.

Mother's Day

Kama came all the way over to Brooklyn just to join us for Mother's Day. It was a little too chilly to sit outside but we managed to have fun inside playing with photobooth (the funhouse pictures), skyping Rome and playing with axes and machetes.

Here's all the pictures.

My Aunt Janis taught me this...

I was taking an introduction to video editing course the other day and needed to shoot some footage to edit. I ended up shooting this since I did not have enough people to do the spoon-on-nose dance made famous by the Francy clan. It's a bit long but I'm hoping to show it at Sundance this year...

New cameras

For those in points elsewhere, many here in the US received a tax rebate this week. Tara and I dutifully injected ours back in the economy by way of a new camera AND a camcorder.

So here's a boring test video. The baby was doing barrel rolls about an hour before this and was visibly moving Tara's belly around, but unfortunately she doesn't do tricks on command (yet).

The Communicant

baby shower pictures

Last weekend was my surprise baby shower. I had a wonderful time and thought I would post a couple of my favorite pictures.

Mmmmm.. what was IN that lolly?

Yeah, so Emmett got a really HUGE splinter really DEEP in is foot about ten days ago. It happened on the back deck of the new bungalow on Olive Walk (did you all hear about the new bungalow?? When do you want to come see it??). I knew right away that this one was a job for a professional, and when even our pediatrician couldn't get it out with a scalpel (ouch!) and some big shots of lidocaine (oooh!), she packed us up and sent us to the emergency room. There was lots of waiting, some x-rays, and some more waiting. Several different doctors came in and looked at Emmett's foot, winced and walked away, mumbling something about the probability that we'd have to book an appointment in the O.R. the next day. Eventually, a surgeon swaggered in and tried to cut poor Emmett's foot right open before the nurse had even unwrapped the special lollipop she had intended to give him to make him loopy. He reflexively kicked the surgeon hard in the chest. Heh.

Finally, Emmett was strapped down and given some stronger shots of lidocaine and the plank of wood was removed from his foot. He was a trooper, and the nurse let him finish the lollipop while they wrapped up his foot. It was basically too late by then to do any good, but hey -- he deserved a little treat by this point.



In other news, Patrick received his First Holy Communion today and everyone came over to help us celebrate. I'll post pictures soon.

In case you were wondering

Here's the full image of the detail used in the header. Its part of a Mother's Day card Francy, Kore and Kieran gave to Grandma in 1985. It comes from Jaye's archives.

In other news, I'm trying to post episode 3 of the interview but I don't have anyplace to store the MP3 online to stream to the blog. Anyone have any server space? the file is about 33mg.

And where's the participation? Wasn't there a cruise someone wants to report on? Read any good articles? Know anyone that got a huge splinter removed and got a medicated lolly?

Lastly, here is a link to something stupid I did. Have a nice weekend.