In the country

Saturday we spent the night at York and Elizabeth's compound in Timberlake. Anne and Jon joined us (and brought massive steaks).




York and Wiley




Lucie discovered root beer


Anne got a new tattoo


Jon did, too


While the steaks were cooking, some of us went on a walk

Anansi the Spider Man

Lucie's YPPC theater class performed "Anansi the Spider Man and the Sky God Stories" this weekend. Lucie played the part of one of Anansi's many children.


Anansi tells his children that he will go to the Sky God to get some stories to tell them.


"If you're hungry, why don't you eat that big green frog over there."


"And they all lived happily ever after."


After the show

Dirty white boy

It's always a pain getting the lawn mower started.

Boys and girls

People are always asking me, now that I have a boy, how that experience is different from having a girl. This movie pretty much sums it up.

Achoo

Here's Milo imitating me sneezing.

The great outdoors

C and I took turns seeing movies at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival today. While I watched In the Shadow of the Moon, Milo enjoyed the great outdoors with Dad.

Below, Milo digs one of our new garden beds.



Milo gets very excited about bumblebees.

Good dancers

Lucie and Milo are both very good dancers. Unfortunately, Milo was more interested in playing with trains when I shot this video.

Pretty creepy

In reference to a particularly strange caterpillar...

L: How creepy would it be if you saw a live ghost, a mummy, your dead soul, and a spider that was poisonous?

K: That would be pretty creepy.

L: Well, it was just a little less creepy than that.

Mortality rate

Overheard backseat conversation:

Sadie: ...but it'll be a long time before we die. [pause] Unless there's a terrible sickness...

Lucie: ...Or we get shot.

Sadie: ...or murdered.

Lucie: ...Or run over.