ILP rolling photo quarantine 2

Ava on the way to a Xmas Eve party...

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Finally letting them at the presents Xmas Day...

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Merry Christiemas, everybody...

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Aww look at them go!

After eight years with the same haircut, Ava has had a change...

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After their gymnastics meet:
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Ella's Bowie obsession continues--I GIFed her dancing to 'John, I'm Only Dancing'

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ahhh so cool!

Just let her read...

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Joni, 6 months old yesterday

aaawwwwwwww!

Your daughter's new haircut is amazing Michael!
Amazing smile, Joni!

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Oh Marin! And Joni and Ella (hell of a duets LP there).

Ava's haircut (and dress sense) = lots of "and would your big brother like one too?" and "hello, young man!" in shops. She never corrects people. She is Ava, she goes beyond boy and girl ;)

haha that's brilliant!

all of them, so cute
Ava is rocking that haircut and I don't say that lightly

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A follow-up to the bender pictures from last summer. It's actually from a couple months ago, but I wanted to document it as it's in danger of being smudged out of recognition

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wow!

do i see bender, fry, leela with no hair and professor farnsworth with hair?

Yes! Leela has a ponytail that I cut off in the picture by accident. I'm not sure why Farnsworth has hair. Also in the pic is Amy. You can always tell who the women are in my daughter's drawings - the little circles by their bellies indicate that they are pregnant.

The medium, btw, is permanent marker on IKEA wardrobe.

loool @ both of those posts

ha! i wondered what those bumps were!

Ben (on the right) with the look in his eyes that says "I'm about to give Owen rabbit ears:"
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Marin had her first fancy dress party a couple of weeks ago
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so cute! also, I loved the phase where my kid was too big for the onesie but we kept putting the onesie on her anyway.

running around on top of a butte yelling about sticks and rocks and flowers and bugs
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awww

<3

Isolde is thinking about becoming a rock star

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p sure she is judging from that photo

Ben!
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turned two friday before last, where does the time etc etc etc

Always with the sticks!

this book has much to answer for
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Ok, that looks like a good one.

We used to have basically an entire umbrella stand full of big sticks. My oldest kid would find a special stick every time we went hiking in the state park, and there was no way that I was allowed to chuck them out the back door or use them for kindling or whatever. Eventually he got into whittling though so it all worked itself out.

My little kid brings home smaller treasures, like the one in your saxophone. She doesn't care about them as much as her brother did though, so I usually just end up finding them when I clean under the couch or whatever.

Stick Man is *amazing, tbh - the animated version is pretty cool too. My daughter treats every stick she finds like a Stick Man action figure, and starts saying stuff like "I'm taking you home to my stick children three..." She found one the other week and I swear she recited almost the entire book on the walk home, she was so excited.

I fired up the bbq this weekend and was v tempted to throw a couple of 'em on to keep it burning, tbh.

Shirtless, chasing bubbles on the deck in 90 degree heat:

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wrong tag
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:)

mine loves bubbles too. If you have really wet hands you can hold them for a bit

Like so?

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Bubbles are the best until you buy a gallon container of them thinking that'll be enough for the summer and then the kids next door come over and splosh them all over the yard.

Chicago was hot and sweaty

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Me and Shakey's kids at the park:
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By "me" I mean Ben.

Pony ride at the corn maze.
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A class assignment that she brought home yesterday. Happiness is playing basketball with a friend while a fox looks on, pooping and peeing.
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Aw!

Ava old enough to get her own Oyster photocard for the bus/Tube (this was an outtake)...

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Lulu post school pickup...

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Marin's favourite album, and my favourite picture of Marin

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aw!