ILP rolling photo quarantine 2

:)

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

Like so?

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/13334698_10154292439438783_2106929981_o_zpskpvkuf6z.jpg

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

http://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8711/28655842366_9cccf40e47_n.jpg

Me and Shakey's kids at the park:
https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8715/28553869902_1b837ec732_b.jpg

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.
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/20161025_051630_zps5ybx2pis.jpg

Aw!

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

https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8346/29482081775_5e4c714096_c.jpg

Lulu post school pickup...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8141/29621762760_f1b368c304_c.jpg

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

https://scontent-lhr3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/14693663_250867275316239_4435172191230754816_n.jpg

aw!

Ahh those eyes! We had that record growing up too, which is remarkable considering we only had about 3 records that weren't Christian folk music.

So cute!

thanks!

Gorgeous Marin!

awwww so cute

A couple recent pix of the now-10-year-old (!!!) boys

https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5672/30932716626_660664fe0f_c.jpg

https://c5.staticflickr.com/6/5559/30994022796_2ba2752f31_c.jpg

Awesome pix!

The boys' school have projects every semester. This time, it was supposed to be about government, but after the election, they refocused on social justice.

Lots of pics here, but here are a couple:

Owen dropping the mic
https://c6.staticflickr.com/1/521/31643706605_e56ac03aaa_b.jpg

Ben at the button table
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/295/31606719416_23a9bfc660_b.jpg

LGTBQ Facts... Pokeballs?
https://c3.staticflickr.com/1/486/31270963250_f3ba6f0329_b.jpg

well, you could poke balls in some, you know, let's just stop there....

great photos

That's a sweet mix drop pic!

Ava playing her first pub gig, just before Xmas:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/393/31568142636_6033d5d00a_b.jpg

Lulu chattering away about Pokemon after Friday school pick-up:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/438/32233628041_11d77ddec6_b.jpg

Wow! A gigging musician! And my daughter just got into Pokemon heavily in the last month. I had to learn the rules for the card game yesterday as she picked up a couple decks and wants me to play with her now.

wow, that is cool, michael!
here's sylvie, age 7
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That's a prime reading spot!

Lulu is obsessed with Pokemon - she sets her schoolmates Pokemon homework, talks of little else, plays Brick Bronze on Roblox, commandeers my phone to play "Go" (it's my fault for getting that app last summer)...

Ava has fallen in with a good bunch of new pals at secondary school - budding musicians, kind of nerd-cool. This is the point at which friends because more the focus, not parents.

REALLY likes jigsaw puzzles atm
https://scontent-lht6-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/15802086_1221957467893736_8727811713740570624_n.jpg

Michael, you take the best photos.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQGBQfUDVjC/

dressed up as "wizards"

Ava, for her 12th birthday, got a haircut, a trip to the cinema, an upset tummy and some low-key cake-free gifting in her jammies in the evening while she recovered... Including this homemade (Pam, not me) lightbox:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3737/32610083820_c1e6f16e92_b.jpg

Lulu didn't miss out - tiny Swiss army knife!

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2768/32176910023_211ec49d5a_b.jpg

awesome

Boys on Spring break - Maui:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2821/33778432965_7b83244b21_b.jpgOn the way to the blowhole

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9keTaEUAAASmGk.jpg:large

hahahahaha!

https://instagram.flhr4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/t51.2885-15/e35/17817737_1458091000928746_5455073722547306496_n.jpg
(she was listening to Knees Up Mother Brown)
https://instagram.flhr4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/t51.2885-15/e35/17663316_188577064984244_4469554276313595904_n.jpg
(I really think she looks Robert Wagner in the Austin Powers movies in this one)

Awww!

She passed grade 2 drums...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2815/33970446152_c9f90b1fdb_b.jpg

DRUMS in the HOUSE! Living the dream...

http://i.imgur.com/pw2MIGr.jpg

Joni at 19 months showing off her first pair of shoes.

They are p awesome shoes tbf

Made the mistake of uploading that as public, here it is again, private this time.

https://imgur.com/a/KV6bY

ffs, never mind.

Excellent shoe choice, Joni!

Lulu will hopefully get on the learning-for-real train wrt the chordophone family soon too...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2816/33707192120_a35bc1b6c9_b.jpg

cuties a-go-go!

Ben and Owen grew up big-time.

Still growin'!

Here they are last week at their first sleepaway camp:

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4265/35858694846_7fa4b0cf8e_b.jpg

Fab boys, also lol at roller bag outside teepee

They are total city slickers.

What great kids

https://scontent-lhr3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/20968717_661564770702791_1923911053847035904_n.jpg
She asked to listen to the Beatles (I sing her I'm Only Sleeping at bedtime a lot), so I gave her the LP sleeve to look at while it played (she loved the animal noises of Good Morning Good Morning). She looked at the band and asked me, "Are they all baddies?"

That's amazing <3

she's correct

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMhSOIkVoAAgb3J.jpg:large

haha that is great!

I think they are "being scary"