Family pic

Easter 2013

Alleluia!

Kateri can't decide if she's more excited that The Lord is risen or that Mama has taken that darned Eater dress off of her.

Moving picture

As good as a movie.

Notes

Bernadette recently demonstrated her counting by noting there were two elephants in the display at the Natural History Museum. Kateri has two teeth. Coincidence? (Bernadette also rattled off her numbers through diez in Spanish this evening.)

Kateri has a clear understanding of books: they're for chewing.

 

Kateri also has a surprisingly pointy tongue, and boy does she like to use it to sample the air and anything she can grab and lift to her mouth. She's holding things and passing them between hands and grabbing at everything. Food is especially fascinating, even though we won't let her have it.

 

Isaiah on the dinner table discussion about palm leaves and what he was thinking and saying: "daddy my head is so full of the talk that I can't eat."

 

Remember when you were so excited about new socks you insisted on wearing them to sleep? Me neither, but I have two kids who are now bedecked in fresh footwear.

 

ice fingers in the stream
An old stone wall standing guard
Winter washing
Murmurs of spring

 

   

Exploring

Mystic Aquarium

Outside the penguin exhibit.

Painting

"The country with a river flowing through it."

Under her wing

                                               

Sweet dreams

Baby girl

Sombreros!

Call it odd, call it cultural eclecticism.  Our task in Spanish class two weeks ago was to read Madeline in Spanish and make our own sombreros amarillos.  Isaiah was most enthralled by the making, Bernadette by the wearing.  (Beside her is our friend Lucia.)

What is she thinking?

The world may never know...until she gets her own blog.

Friends

Over lunch today, Isaiah described to Grandma certain situations and conditions that may lead to his biting or hitting his sister (the bigger one).

Grandma: And then, do you make up and become friends again?

Isaiah: We're always friends.

p.s. When such a situation arose yesterday, I told the two combatants (loudly) that I get very upset when I see my children being hit.

Isaiah: You should stay in the other room.

Miscast

Bernadette camps in the lane (to use a basketball announcing cliche).

The sisters, the siblings

Moments after these photos were taken, Isaiah announced, "Kateri is beginning to get a human's laugh!"

Sitting up?

Sure!

Playing restaurant

Mama: Do you put milk and sugar in your coffee, or do you drink it black like Daddy?

Isaiah: I drink it decaf with sugar.


Mama: What kind of sandwich did you order, Bernadette?

Bernadette: Purple.

Chubby baby

Rehearsal dinner