Also For Mommy

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First Tooth!

First tooth! She's hoping the toothfairy brings candy... but understands that is unlikely.

Pix Stop

Willingly put their arms around one another to say "cheeeeeee".

Post-Bus Stop Playtime

My children are crazy

Trevor's Cars

Dude goes everywhere with his cars. And it's usually multiple vehicles, sometimes 2 in each hand. He'll carry them for hours. Why? I have no idea. They comfort him, so it's cool...

Another zoo pic

Boy animals at the zoo

Patrick and Trevor took Papa to the zoo yesterday morning. It was a great day for it. Meanwhile, I sat through a rivoting day-long training on historic preservation and financial incentives. I didn't bother taking a picture to share.

Riding to school

I get to drop Lauren off to school everyday. Patrick made us some mix CDs to enjoy on the trip, but lately she's been more into reading than singing along with me. I love her.

Liveblogging the USC game.

1st beer: Patrick J's.
Traffic = no thank you.
Walking to tailgate from here.
Sunscreen = positive.

Lauren's Keychain: Zoombezi Bay

Lauren has been collecting keychains from neat places since she was a wee-bitty baby girl. Today I deciderer-ed to take a picture of the keychain when we get it.

For those of you who don't know, Zoombezi Bay is a waterpark located by the Columbus Zoo. It used to be called Wyandot Lake, but the zoo bought them out and remodeled. After more than a year of waiting, we finally went today. The bad news is, it was COLD. Like, 65 degrees and windy cold. Water was cold. Lauren hated it. But she smiled like a champ for her picture.

Lauren's Birthday: 5!

Lauren's big present in the a.m. was this barbie-sized dollhouse. It was some assembly (and some cursing) required.

Trevor is always keen on helping, especially if it involves presents.

The party invite.
Lauren was in charge of most of the facepainting at the party. Everyone was very pleased with her creations.

The birthday girl does cake and presents like a champ.

Thanks to everyone who came out and made it such a wonderful day!

Lauren's First Day of School!

Lauren is now officially a kindergartner at Indianola Informal K-8 School! She was very excited, and very tired when she got home. Dead asleep by 8:10pm ;)

Trevor Potter?

anniversary party

in realtime, this is how much = love my wife. Drunkeness over nothingness, thank you honey. You're my favorite, you're my person.

Pictures I took of Ewan (one of you, one of me)

OPT

A whole room full of Other People's Toys! Lauren and Trevor had a great time playing in the third floor romper room at Anna and Noah's new house. Trevor was totally fascinated by the baby.... Ewan is one smiley little dude, and Nina handled the invasion pretty well... it's hard to share sometimes, you know?

Franklin County Fair

Franklin County Fair fun... the ride operators let Trevor on one of those car / motorcycle rides... where he got to drive. And boy did he drive. At one point his tongue was hanging out. Pauline joined us, and rode the ferris wheel with Lauren. It was Lauren's first ferris wheel ride, followed shortly thereafter by her second. Saw an elephant show, then ate an elephant ear--only at the fair, right?

Three random pictures from last week

Trevor and Mama: pooltime

Happy Birthday Matt and Dan!

First off-HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT AND DAN!

And in other news... This week Lauren is attending a nature camp program at Highbanks. No pictures of that yet, but here she is from a program on Butterflies at Sharon Woods the other night. The kids were far more entertained by running about a big open field whirling their butterfly nets than in actually looking for butterflies. Good fun though.

Human/Alien Interaction

Lauren and Trevor and I went to the movie theater because they have free kids movies on Tuesday mornings. We lasted about 20 minutes before the kids got restless. We ended up in the hallway, and the result is this cellphone video showing a human meeting some aliens for the first time, and vice-versa.

The Great Disappearing Pagalini

It's... magic! Watch the Great Pagalini attempt the impossible before your very eyes!

Keep Out

The first of what will probably be many such signs posted on Lauren's door. This one was directed specifically at boys under the age of 2 whose names start with "T".

Dude LOVES trains

My sister gave us this train set a few years ago, and Lauren never really got into it. But, it resurfaced a few days ago and is an instant hit with Trevor. Last night we had to put the train set away, it was set up on his bedroom floor in a big figure 8, and he couldn't get to sleep... kept standing up and pointing to the set, saying 'train, train'. 'Train' was also the first word out of his mouth when I went into his room this morning.