06.15.11

I know, right?

06.11.11

Last day of first grade!  He’s already thoroughly enjoying summer break.

06.04.11

Hey, Henry, why’s your backpack so heavy?  Oh, it’s just your rock collection.

06.03.11

Happy birthday, Papa-with-a-beard!  (And with inexplicably drawn hair – no offense.)

05.31.11

Mommy’s little revolutionary.

05.20.11

Henry achieved the yellow belt rank in karate yesterday.  I don’t think he’s very excited, do you?  ;)

05.19.11

Mommy’s little hipster.

05.17.11

I checked Henry out of school early for dentist & doctor’s appointments, and we had a special lunch together.

05.12.11

Seven.  I can’t stand it.

05.10.11

All of us on Mother’s Day… I love these people.

05.05.11

I do believe the girl likes her toast with jelly.

05.04.11

A quick peek at a graduation shoot I did… I do plan on getting rid of that doorknob behind her.  What was I thinking?!?
I’m so proud of this girl, I can’t even tell you.  Working her way through college as a young wife and mother of three while holding a full-time job is no easy feat.

04.30.11

Well, yesterday’s Plan B ended up with us at a playground, eating our lunch and getting some wiggles out before the long ride home.  Maria’s tongue and vocal chords clearly did not get their wiggles out, and were exercised the ENTIRE 5 hour drive home.

04.29.11

Well, this was about all we saw of the shuttle-launch-that-wasn’t today.  You can see the vehicle assembly building where they, um, assemble the vehicle; and behind that sign in the water is the launch pad.  Oh well.

04.27.11

This goober needs a haircut, and soon.

04.24.11

Happy Easter!

04.22.11

Maria was enjoying some craft time with Mommy tonight.  She had some really juicy gossip for a 2 1/2 year old.

04.21.11

Now it’s Henry’s turn to model his new Easter clothes.

04.19.11

Here you go, Nana & Papa.  Maria wanted to show you her new dress.

[sorry posting has been light lately.  I’m having lots of trouble finding inspiration/motivation.]

04.15.11

We’ve heard more meows than human speech out of this one lately.  Say hello to “Ria Cat.”
[that’s what she calls herself and she has started introducing herself to other people this way.]

04.12.11

I wish to spend more hours like this.

04.10.11

I made an applesauce cake for our neighbor’s birthday – seems my kids enjoy it just as much as I did as a kid.

04.09.11

You can’t keep them from the sad books forever.

04.07.11

The princess takes off her crown and takes a quick coffee break.

04.05.11

Seriously.  I can’t even stand it!

04.04.11

Oh, I love this boy.

04.03.11

As always, we had a wonderful and way-too-short time with Nana & Papa.

04.02.11

Maria wanted to show her excitement over baseball season beginning with special headwear.

04.01.11

Henry & Maria took a ride on a komodo dragon today at the zoo.

03.31.11

GAH.  Have you ever seen something so cute?  These girls are a hoot.

03.30.11

These two sweet cousins attacked a couple of clementines yesterday…  Gone in 60 seconds.

03.27.11

Intense Battleship competition going on right now between Nana & Henry.

[it’s Nana’s first time playing (she says)]

03.26.11

Stella is a fabulous neighbor.  She always returns the tools she borrows and never makes noise too early in the morning.

03.24.11

I thought she was looking pretty grown up today.

03.22.11

Sunday marked our first trip to the beach for the season.  The season ends in May.

[after that, it’s too hot, too many people, water too warm to be refreshing]

03.20.11

The kids and their friends take on a piece for piano-eight-hands.

03.17.11

Just trying to reduce our carbon footprint in every way we can… those gas-guzzling clementines we used to buy were killing the ozone layer.

03.16.11

My neighbors discovered a random amaryllis in their front yard a couple of weeks ago and now it’s bloomed.

03.15.11

Henry brought home a spectacular Wild Thing today.

03.14.11

*sigh*  Doesn’t this just warm your heart?

03.13.11

We did this last night, too, except she took all but one out in the night.  We’ll see what it looks like tomorrow!

03.10.11

Julia, just imagine your cousin Maria is playing “Happy Birthday To You” for you today.

03.09.11

When Henry had his costume on the other day, I asked Maria if she wanted to be Snow White.  I think she liked it.

[my mom made this for me more than 25 years ago!]

03.07.11

Peter Parker  Spiderman  Henry sure looks like he’s bulked up, doesn’t he?

03.06.11

This is Henry’s reaction upon learning that there may be a little romance coming for Harry Potter in book 4.

[the back of the book says something about Harry’s crush on Cho Chang]

03.04.11

She’s two-and-a-half!  35 inches of spirit.

03.03.11

WELL.  Ok, then.

[scampi sauce from Publix]

03.01.11

Mini-Timon.

02.28.11

Look who I met at Universal Studios today!  Maria was v. excited.

02.26.11

That’s my man, spending the day just down the street behind us as a Habitat for Humanity volunteer. 

[*sigh*, just like old times – Timon spent a year with AmeriCorps volunteering for HFH.  Please check out the petition to the right to help save this vital American program.]