March 9th, 2010
Last weekend Courtney and Arthur were in town for a visit. They’ve been stuck in flat Michigan for too long (their words, not mine) and so I knew they wanted to go hiking and see some beautiful views. Given their complaints about the flatness of Michigan, I thought taking them to the heights of the Cascades would be a good idea…which lead us to Mailbox Peak. Although I’ve wanted to do it for awhile, we’d never made it there. I knew it was going to be a butt kicker but since Saturday was a gloriously sunny day, I thought the views would be worth it.
Unfortunately Mark wasn’t feeling 100% still, so only Kuja, Sabine, Courtney and Arthur and I went. Butt kicker it was….4,100 vertical feet in 3 miles. Thankfully Mark and I have either snowshoed or hiked almost every weekend since the new year, so amazingly I made it all the way to the top with the Bine on my back. Thankfully Arthur took her on the way back down. At the top we could see Mt. Rainier, Seattle, the Olympic Mountains, Mt. Baker and pretty anything else around since we were above it all.
It was a great day and all worth it despite the fact that we’re still having trouble going up and down stairs normally.
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February 13th, 2010
The Bine’s latest trick … fish faces.
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February 12th, 2010
Well Sabine has been “cruising” a lot lately around chairs and and it will be any day where she starts to take more than a couple steps. She’s really turning into such a little jokester and it seems like it’s just every 15 minutes or so till she either tries to get you to laugh, or she starts laughing at something. Anyway just a few pictures from today.
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February 7th, 2010
My good friend Alec arrived last week for a visit. We haven’t gotten to see him since the summer of 2006. With our time in Kenya and his time in French Guiana, its been hard to find a time to be in the same place. Despite this, Alec and the Bine have become fast friends.
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February 1st, 2010
This weekend was a typical rainy PNW weekend. But not looking forward to being cooped up all day we thought we’d take a chance and go for a hike. So we drove out onto the the Mountain Highway loop and started a hike up to Heather Lake. It turned out to be a perfect day for a hike in the forest. The forest canopy cut the direct rain, and being outfitted in gortex jackets everyone was warm and toasty. Sabine was all bundled up in her one piece down suit, rain jacket, and covered by her new rain hood. For more pictures check out: http://www.steudel.org/pictures/thumbnails.php?album=82
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January 22nd, 2010
Sabine had another great Friday with Samuel and Clodagh. The highlight of the afternoon was cheerios and oyster crackers!
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January 7th, 2010
Well this week it’s been “Doctor Week”. Both of our “children” made a trip to their respective doctors. Kuja went in yesterday to get fixed, spent the night at the vet’s office and Bebeth went and picked her up this afternoon, with the instructions “Make sure she stays calm.” A puppy calm, are you serious? She now has a cone attached to her head, which seems to get caught on things, especially all the baby gates …
Sabine made her 9 month visit to the Doctor. No she didn’t get fixed. Though she did get weighed and now weighs a whopping 16lbs 5oz. and comes to a towering height of 27 inches. Her head is in the 90th percentile and her weight puts her in the 10th percentile. She is now officially a bobble head doll. She also go the ok to eat pretty much anything. Below was our first attempt at feeding her pasta, she didn’t really seem to be a fan.
These day’s she is crawling around a lot, and even free standing for 3 or 4 seconds on her own. She has also figured out how to climb our stairs … time for more baby gates. Over the last few weeks she’s started dancing. It’s more like wobbling her head back and forth, but she loves doing it. If I start playing the guitar or we turn some music on the radio she’ll often start dancing.
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January 6th, 2010
As many people know, Sabine gets to spend lots of time each week with Tristan. They take trips to the park, go for walks, roll around on the floor, and generally have a great time together. For awhile now, people have been asking for a photo…so here it is.
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December 21st, 2009
On Friday night Sabine got to do her first tree triming. We didn’t have a tree this year, so Dorothy and Troy let us join in on the fun. I don’t know how much Sabine appreciated the activity (especially since we wouldn’t let her eat ALL of the ornaments). But its one of my favorite parts of the holidays, so I had a great time! Of course the excellent meal (with 4 courses!) made by Troy didn’t hurt either 
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December 9th, 2009
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Last weekend Courtney and Arthur were in town for a visit. They’ve been stuck in flat Michigan for too long (their words, not mine) and so I knew they wanted to go hiking and see some beautiful views. Given their complaints about the flatness of Michigan, I thought taking them to the heights of the Cascades would be a good idea…which lead us to Mailbox Peak. Although I’ve wanted to do it for awhile, we’d never made it there. I knew it was going to be a butt kicker but since Saturday was a gloriously sunny day, I thought the views would be worth it.
