I can't resist photographing the sleeping baby

Hanging in bed

Enjoying the sunset

Our beautiful children

Mommy's sick

Lucie gave this advice: "Just imagine that you are floating in the sky with the stars all around."

Weekend activities

Playing with Zoe


Sitting up

Canopy

Language

Some mispronounciations that Lucie still maintains and that secretly charm us endlessly, noted here before she grows out of these last vestiges of baby talk.

skwing, as in "When we go to the park, will you push me on the skwing?"

becept, as in "Everyone in my class got in trouble today becept me. I got to go to the treasure box."

punkwin, as in "When are you going to make punkwin pie again?"

similar to

napwin, as in "I used my napwin but there's still some syrup on my face."

sumbarine, as in "We all live in a yellow sumbarine."

Curiously, she often uses the word 'is' in place of the pronoun 'they', as in "What are is doing?" or, in the case of K and L in a bathroom stall at the mall while a couple of teenage African-American girls were gossiping colorfully and loudly, "Are is talking our language?"

Art

Last night, Lucie's friend Sophie visited and wondered what Wonder Woman was doing with all those barbies. Lucie explained, "It's just art."

Sunday

Making a pegasus


Napping

Baby pictures

Ben

Smothered in tangerines

"That's what happens when a toy gets broken into lots of teeny, teeny, tiny pieces, like this big." - L

Some recent pictures

Baby containment device

Milo

Lucie's room

Family visits

We were happy to host family members during Christmas, and here are some tardy photos. We miss y'all already.


Christmas morning


Milo amidst loot and detritus


Uncle Brian and Papa


Milo and Nana


Typical photo of Uncle Brian


Nini, Milo, and Lucie


Nini reading to Lucie


Nini and Milo

Saturday

That other star

Lucie got a cool art history book for Christmas and, as a result, has been thinking a lot about Jesus. Last night, as she was falling asleep, she said, "Jesus' life was really much different from that other star's life." At first I thought she meant another character in one of the paintings, but she said no, she meant "that other star, the one that all those people dress up like in the movie." Oh, right -- Elvis! Lucie said, "Jesus was nailed to the cross, but Elvis just died at the end of his life, like normal." You're right, Lucie. Jesus' life was much different.

Merry Christmas to all

Fondue

Birthday party

Today was L's friend Quinn's birthday party, and it was held on a farm in Orange County. Quinn's friends got to feed the chickens (and watch Quinn's dad hypnotize some of them), ride horses, and try a totally new mysterious food called 'cake'.


Lucie and Quinn on the farm


"Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens..."


When do we get cake?

Congestion

We all have colds this morning. L woke up wailing. "I can't smell! I can only see through my eyes, and that's it!"

Santa train

Tonight L went for a ride on the Santa train at the Museum of Life and Science with Wells, her old friend from Kin. We had hot chocolate and got some Santa light sabers, rode the train and saw Santa and Rudolph.

Good eye

This morning L spotted from the bathroom window a heron on the neighbor's chimney, no doubt pondering which fish to snatch from the large pond in their backyard.

Saturday

Sleeping in (kinda)


Sun in blue sky


Your kung fu is very good


Making cookies