Another Plate of Vegetables Devoured and He'll Be Taller

  If the level is toward the back of his head and and front of mine it's so close that it goes to his side of center.  We called in David as our impartial judge to get the level straight and to make the final call. . .

Who will it be. . .me by the slightest smidgeon!

Savoring the last moments of being taller. . .

Konyns Celebrate En Masse and Rowlands Celebrate in the Dark?

Christmas Eve











It wasn't really so dark.  There was something wrong with a Droid light meter.

Without Older Siblings, Who Would Teach Him to Wrap Presents and to Twirl the Empty Wrapping Paper Tubes?

Carsten is a Yellow Belt

Chopping Purple Potatoes and Other Holiday Activities

Potatoes as purple as grape juice!

Purple lettuce to match

Mom actually stopped studying long enough to make soup with the purple potatoes.

Unser Gluckschwein

Fourteen or twenty-four?

Moving through the Harry Potter books. . .already at Chapter 8 in The Chamber of Secrets!

Who's Tallest?

(Bonus Photo)

What a nice kid.

 Who's tallest?  I am.   (Ha!)    Photo from end of Sept. 2010

Reading, Reading, Reading

Reading at bedtime. . .


The next morning. . .



Reading all day??


I think he was so absorbed in reading that he had too little attention left over to process my question.

Who's that Girl?

I was at London Hair on Thursday.  An interesting young girl was getting her hair cut, and she let me take her picture.  

She didn't have money to cover her haircut, so I bought her some winter boots and brought her home with me.








At 4:30am the next morning she was packed and ready by the door wearing my favorite jacket and asking for a ride to the train station. . . destination Seattle, WA.  Didn't she have to go to school?  Her train ticket was for an adult.  Maybe she was older than I'd thought?

Is she going off to Seattle to be a poet?  To drink Starbucks mochas in their birthplace?



She seemed like the type.  But if so, why was she carrying body armor with her?  I mean, I know Seattle might have some rough areas.  But body armor???

. . .met up with some interesting characters at the train station. . .



I hope she comes back soon!  I feel safer knowing she has the body armor, Droid phone and big sword with her.  And the friend who knows Kung Fu . . .

In the Presence of Greatness

Some people dress up like someone else on Halloween.   With Pascal I almost get the feeling that Halloween is the one day of the year that he dresses like his true self.

What are these shoe pictures I keep finding on every computer in the house???

Every computer in our household left unattended for more than 30 seconds somehow ends up with this photo on its desktop when it's woken up.

Are our computers dreaming of soccer shoes?

Pascal Almost Actual Size

Carsten Extinguishes Fire

Athena and her Pumpkin

How sweet. . .

In this picture they kinda have the same expression.  . . .or maybe I just looked at the photo too long. . .Athena's nose is straighter. . .

Happy 11th Birthday Athena: The Party

the birthday girl texturizing her paint with a toothbrush

Frances arrives!  (Just in time for cake!)

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