Zoo Lights!

After a fancy dinner con Raul y Shannan y Aidan y Arianna, we hit the zoo for its xmas light show.


Getting dressed was a hoot...

Christmas Eve

We lysol-ed the house so Elena wouldn't catch any of our many germs, cooked the traditional Indian dinner and enjoyed an evening with Amy, Omar and Elena.

Kiley helps Omar open a present for Elena

Fresca!

Some xmas card pictures that didn't make the cut...

This woman is a PROFESSIONAL:



Matthew's fundraiser night at Chevy's for College Park Nursery School...

Been a coooold December...

...so we're trying to build an ice skating rink in the backyard:

A couple of tries at an xmas card picture

Just me and the kids at the National Botanical Garden (to see the Christmas trains), so tough getting everybody in position...

No flipping!

Or so Joshua was told after this masterpiece:

Kiley's First Steps

She may not have teeth but the girl can walk! She took her first steps last Monday, November 29th and has been practicing ever since.

Don't have the right candles

The Limarzis helped us celebrate Sarah's bday:

Crawling is still faster than walking...

Out of the way Mookie!

The Fourth Child

gets to snack on Cheetos with Matthew while Mom makes lunch... "All natural" though!!

Apple Picking with Amy

looking at the chickens and their eggs

Kiley is excited to go pick apples

Joshua and Michael hunt out some good apples to pick

most of the good ones were on the tops of the trees...

Amy and the boys with our wagon full of apples and pumpkins.

Action shots

(at Wheaton Park)

What do you want to be when you grow up?

A rodeo clown, maybe...

Cover art for their first album

(with Arianna and Aidan at the zoo)

Robbed!

Joshua's coach blocking Joshua's sure goal, which would have made a hat trick! (and then paying the price...)

Let's have a fair race

There's a cul de sac up the road that the boys like to race their bikes around - there's a good climbing tree for observing the competition.

Minute to win it

We saw this on some silly tv show - supposed to leave just one card on the top of the bottle...

"Small children should be supervised at all times."

Went to the Hirshhorn Museum (modern art/sculpture) Sunday morning to while the time away while Sarah was resting and before football started. They have an exhibit called "Color Forms," with different pieces/installations that are basically just solid volumes of a single color in one form or another. Turns out one of the pieces was the equivalent of a giant sand box filled with powdered paint - I didn't find that out until Matthew put his hand in it. Security comes running over. ("DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING!") Escorts us to the elevator, down to the basement, where another security guard meets us and takes us to a utility closet with a giant work sink and hoses Matthew off. I asked how often it happens and the guard chuckled - apparently it's an everyday occurrence. ("I can't wait til this exhibit is outta here.") A recent incident involved a boy so covered in the paint powder that they had to get a wheelchair to take him down to the basement.

I so wanted to take a picture of him as soon as it happened, but thought that was bad form, so this is the best we could do (after the incident)...

11 years!

We celebrated our anniversary with a lunch on the Georgetown waterfront. Amy and Omar were also celebrating their anniversary from the week before-- 1 year! Kiley looked beautiful, as usual, in a dress from Aunt Val.

Happy 11th anniversary to us!

First Day of School!

They're both "walkers" (since we live six houses from the school) but only Joshua gets the cool hat.

Tupper Lake 2010