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The whole family rocks out to Jingle Bells on Xmas Day. Another quiet activity in the Klasky-Timmins' household:

Yesterday, Eli fell and bonked his head on a plastic toy truck in his hands. What ensued was really scary for Lisa, who worked her way through lots of blood and baby shrieks to discover that he'd knocked one of his front teeth loose. An emergency trip to the dentist revealed that his tooth had to be pulled. Our little guy will be missing one of his front teeth until he's somewhere between 5 and 7 years old, when his adult tooth comes in. He seems in good spirits and his parents have cried more than he has so far.

IslandWood's Howl-o-ween event was a success. Attached are a couple photos taken by Robert Dashiell, one of our volunteers and docents. Our kitchen team carved the funny-face and owl-shaped pumpkins.

Last night, we went to the Bainbridge Pumpkin Walk, and carved jack-o-lanterns with Jake. I carved this one in honor of a party today at Wacky Nut Horse Farm. Photoshop did it justice:

Yikes! Only one month after Eli started crawling, he appears like he's getting close to walking. It's a whole new world...

Ben took Jake along with Mike and Jake Cyger to check out the Seattle Boat Show, over by the Ballard Locks. This was a handmade beautiful wood boat, that the two Jakes sat in for a bit.

Jake and his buddy Carson went to ride on a real life-sized Thomas the Engine. Along the way, they got to meet Sir Topham Hat.

Can anyone identify this guy? This was shot with a macro; he's less than a centimeter long.

This was in our mailroom at work today. Nice tagline.

This week has me realizing how fragile we are. We recently got word that our friend Protik Mia has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pro's our age and has two young kids and a happy marriage with another friend of ours, Becky. If you know Pro, and want to follow along and wish him well...he's keeping a blog of his family adventures, as well as his diagnosis and fight at: pro's blog.

Less than a week after hearing this crappy news, we also received a note that another friend of ours, Mike Vitti - the photographer at our wedding - had a sudden heart attack and couldn't be revived. WTF! His NY Times obituary is at: vitti obituary.

Pro/Becky and Mike are all friends from ultimate frisbee...not surprising since so many of our friends came through years of playing the sport. As a small tribute to Mike's life, the following is a picture he took of me and a friend Alex Kaplan "skying" for a disc in Prospect Park years ago. Rest in Peace, Mike!