Happy Homeowners

Yay for us! We moved into a 1952 Cape Cod on New Year's Day.


Aaron's living the dream.

Olan Mills throwback

On Grandma's hearth after Christmas.

Reality behind family portraits

Funny that it's so hard to get kids to smile, but here they're the only ones cooperating.

Addie at the Dentist

Addie does great at Dr. Ed's. Those cheap little prizes work for her.
This is a photo from her second visit.

Nora is somewhere in the office...

the assistants were all fighting over her.

Old Town 3

Old Town 2

Indian Style

Old Town

I will chew you.

Little Lamb

I'm an artist, Dad.

Couches are Soft

Pink

Buckets = Fun

The Girls

Get me Outta Here

Addie's Texas Hat at the Gettysburg, PA Apple Harvest Festival

Borrowing Addie's New Texas Hat

Getting Some Teeth, Y'all

Nora is 9 months old

She is feeding herself...

She is just getting teeth #'s 3-6 which gives her the power to...

superclench, so that the spoon can't be removed from her mouth without some measure of force.

The Farm

Aaron's colleague owns a farm about 2 hours from DC. He invited a few families from work to spend a Saturday night there. We really had a great time visiting with friends and taking in the scenery. Though Saturday was rainy, Sunday morning was nice and allowed for breakfast on the porch, football in the yard, and a walk of the property. We ate home-smoked bbq, oatmeal pancakes, and monkey bread, and played Cranium -- it was old-fashioned fun! We were a few hours from the city for one night, but it felt like a real vacation!

Kids' table.

Addie's new friend Preston shared his cereal.

Looking for the horses.

Where'd everybody go?

Not a bad breakfast spot for the brothers.

Addie's pretend world.

Trying to entice the horses with some apples.

Rusty.

Boots are worthless in 18+ inches of water. Note the wet shorts, too.

Zonked

Addie is in two "classes" on Wednesdays. That's a packed morning for a 3 year old. This picture was taken at 1PM.