Just a few months late...

Our darling Irish boys

Eyes

Mara teaches Gideon to accessorize.

Bernadette: "He looks like Apollo."

Pia speaks

P (to Gideon, in the singsong, high-pitched voice she hears the grown-ups use): "You are my little prisoner! Yes, you are."

Mama: "What does that mean, Pia?"

P: "It means that the baby crawled out of the car and rolled on the floor."

OK.

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P (in the Barnes & Noble restroom): "Dear Mama, I'm thirsty, said Pia."

Overheard fragment of conversation

Bernadette: "I didn't tell you to do that!"

Isaiah: "I do a lot of things you don't tell me to do."

Duh, Grandpa.

Mara: "Kill the spider, Grandpa!"

G: "Why should I kill it?"

M: "Because it's alive!"

A poem by Mara

"Wobbly Head"

Wobbly, wobbly, wobbly head.
If someone is holding Gideon
and not holding his head,
it wobbles!

Pia

I asked the girls to tell me one thing they would like to do today.

Mara: "Paint."

Pia: "Get married." (Further questions revealed that what she actually wanted to do was dance at a wedding reception.)

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Pia (as she watched me flipping through CDs): "Could you play 'The Greatest Showman'?"

Me: "No, I'm going to play something else."

P: "Monopoly?"

Gideon sneezes

Mara opens

More Pia

The haul

Pia

Mara bakes

An Arch visit, just like when I was a kid

St. Louis Wedding for Andrew and Emily

Mort, Marian, Lisa and Daniel

James and Matt

Matt and Fred

Friedrichses

Phil, Fred (seated), Charlie, Galen and James.

Old friends: Bob Luppen

Kateri's Birthday (it happened on time!)

Catchup with Pia

Let's see if I can get caught up and get back into the regular blogging mix:

Football game.

Pies!

Quotes from Babyland

Pia: "I not baby anymore. I'm da big sister!"

Kateri: "If I were Gideon, I wouldn't cry so much."

Mara: "I would. I would cry so much, my eyeballs would almost pop out!"

Caught one!

Camper girls

Mara is 4?

Shakespeare fest

Kateri

Climbers

Casual Mara

Making grape jelly