The Story

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Sleeping Handsome

After a too-long hiatus, we're back with a new movie. Zayne is walking, beginning to talk and developing a strong personality. He may have only a few words, but he makes it clear what he wants. What

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Winter '06-07 Update

New photos from December '06 and January '07

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Fall '06 Update

We're happy to share photos of our Fall activities! Enjoy!

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Summer Photos and Booklist

New slideshow from Summer 2006. And a new feature: our library list.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Summer’s End

This summer saw a world of change in our family. Arden has mastered toilet training (he loves his Thomas underpants), started sounding out and recognizing certain words, and has become a little

Friday, March 24, 2006

Zayne Dari Kolodner

We are overjoyed to announce the birth of our second beautiful son, Zayne Dari.

Date of birth: March 24, 2006

Time: 10:17 pm

Weight: 7 pounds 12 ounces

Length: 20.5 inches

Location: Our Home

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Pre-Baby Update

Dear Friends and Family,

Well, this is the last pre-baby update. Things are gearing up for the arrival of "Nebraska" and we're all very excited. We'll let you know the big news as soon as there is

Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Arden’s Personas

It's amazing how many children there are in our house these days. Actually, it's not just the children, it's the trains, chefs, contractors, animate food items and myriad animals, both sentient and

Thursday, November 11, 2004

Look Who’s Talking

Well, Arden's language continues to develop at lightening speed. And in such quirky ways! Just three or four weeks ago he had basically a vocabulary of two or three words, as we reported to all of

Saturday, October 16, 2004

Post-Move

Hmmm. A quick check of our files shows that we haven't written an update since before we moved. Let's see:

We've Moved

Selling the old place and buying the new both went so smoothly we almost

Friday, July 2, 2004

Walking/Talking

It's been a pretty momentous month around here. When last we wrote, we had bought a house in Philly and were getting excited for Jen's new job. Since then we sold our townhouse (For Sale By Owner,

Tuesday, June 1, 2004

Major Changes Afoot (again)

Many of you knew, but to some of you this is out of the blue: Jen and I have decided to uproot ourselves once again and totally transform our lives.

This time, however, the destination is not

Thursday, March 11, 2004

Arden’s Vocabulary

Careful experimentation by a team of distinguished scientists has verified that Arden understands some words. There are probably others that we haven't yet figured out, of course. Below is an

Saturday, January 31, 2004

Crawling

Well, we've been very delinquent in the last few months on the update front, but here we go. Besides this update, we've uploaded new photos to our website (http://www.Kolodner.com) too! We probably

Monday, November 24, 2003

Another Fatherhood Moment

Arden has a cold. It's not his first, but he's had some trouble sleeping over the past few nights. Jen and I just got over minor colds, so it was no mystery how he got this. He's still his usual

Thursday, October 9, 2003

A “Dad Moment” for Michael

I had a definite "dad moment" today. It's funny how the silliest and littlest things can suddenly serve as a symbol of massive changes in one's life. Here I am, I've become a father, quit my job to

Thursday, August 14, 2003

Out of Work

Today I made it official. I'm no longer employed and will be spending full time as a stay at home dad. Of course, it's been the reality for a while now, but turning in my State Department ID

Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Arden’s Birth Announcement

We are overjoyed to announce the birth of our beautiful son, Arden Ezri Kolodner.

Date of birth: April 29, 2003

Time: 5:30 am

Weight: 8 pounds 7 ounces

Length: 21 inches

Location: Virginia Hospital