Some photos I've emailed out.....

The girls dressed for Halloween...

We picked over nine pounds of raspberries from a patch that cropped up beside our little woods. This is one batch! Celia and I made jam.

The new kitten we got from the pound June 2007. We names her Alizarin "Lizzie" Liberace. She's well loved as you can see.

We curled Celia's hair (June 07) and took some photos out front...

Ava taking ballet lessons May 2007

Easter morning 2007

February snow day

Celia doing her homework in February.

Februry 2007, Ava, primed and ready for her first day of nursery school
(she had ordered me to "SEND ME TO SCHOOL!").

The second photo shows how much three hours of play and puzzles can wear a person out.

lovebugs, February 5, 2007

Ava December 2006

Celia the mermaid December 2006

Celia and Ava with friends at the sockhop/bookfair at Oakton Eelementary October 2006.

The trampoline (you can see Lynne's house in the background).


Trampoline static problems!

Zeny brings over her charge from time to time. Ava loves it.

The snake Robert (the neighbor) and I had just cut out of the deernetting around the garden. We think it lives under our porch.

Me and the girls in the back yard, September 2006.

Daddy is funny!

Fall fun

ABC book idea that I'll try to actually finish!

Sadly, our cat Loki died in the Fall. We've had him since we were expecting Celia in 1999. Some more Loki photos....

Ava and Celia giving Loki cuddles (whether he likes it or not).

Lee loving Loki or Loki loving Lee?

A mermaid Rob drew to iron on Celia's sweatshirt

The playhouse there.

Ava and Celia at Rob's September Wye River figure painting workshop (in a beautiful area just east of the Chesapeake Bay) .

Some Florence photos from the workshop in May 2006.....

Ava makes a friend.

Rob showing the class details of a Michelangelo.

Tiny bathtub in our apartment in Florence.

Ava (who had been playing with lipgloss just before this- I had to wipe it off her face first, and Celia who is wearing a hair extention a friend gave to her. Ava below, posing.

Lynne's pool is gone and all that is left is a bunch of sand. But it will not go to waste...

(Zeny's party April 2, 2006)

The sandbox where the pool used to be (Lynne's yard next door)... and exactly the spot where we had our wedding reception tent!

The girls on the Florida coast April 2005 during a workshop.

Some photos taken in Ireland September 2005...

Celia running through the "dark hedges" or "dok edges" as the Irish would say.

With some of the Irish cousins: Girard, Mareen, Anna, Paul and crew.

Ava in a courtyard at Limepark Arts Center and Celia in her new Irish coat.

Ava enjoying a hike.

Rob with his assistant, Marjorie.

Celia posing at the Dark Hedges.