Halloween 2011

And they're off!

Kiley got the hang of it pretty quick

The Trick-or-Treating Crew

Ron, Harry and Hermione

6'9 with the Afro

What am I supposed to do with this?


Maybe.


Seeing the possibilities...


Game face.

Portraits

Thanks Raul!

Went to the Nats game with Joshua with gifted tickets from Raul - saw batting practice, sat in the front row, got a foul ball from the ball girl, and enjoyed the rain delay lightning show. Joshua was not going home early, so we made it all the way until Michael Morse's walk-off homer on the first pitch of the bottom of the ninth won it for the Nats 2-1!

Andrews Air Show

Took all the kids to see the air show. On the shuttle bus on the way over:


For the second year in a row I seemed to be the only one actually interested in the planes:


Michael in between flips on the bungee cord flip machine:

At the Drive-In

Took everybody to Bengies in Baltimore to see a triple-feature: African Cats, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Thor. Matthew and Kiley curled up and went to sleep at the end of the first movie (Kiley in her pak-n-play, Matthew in his sleeping bag), and the rest of us made it halfway through Pirates...

a morning with Matthew and Kiley

A little before 9am on a rainy Thursday morning Chris leaves to take Matthew to Miss Ann's 2's/3's class at College Park Nursery School.

Kiley watches them leave.

After a good nap Kiley is all smiles with some crazy hair.

Before we know it, Matthew is home!

We "race" to the front door to see Matthew and Dad who arrive home with a beautiful painting that Matthew made in Miss Ann's class--with berries! Matthew is explaining that he made the painting for "you and Dad and Michael and Joshua and Kiley and...what was the name of the cat that died?"

Leona Kiley

Elena's baptizm

DIY Seesaw

The Flu

Joshua was in quarantine for Alex and Brigid's birthday shindig, but he managed to get his hands on a party favor all the same...