ILP rolling photo quarantine 2

I'm not hugely prideful about my records tbh, as long as they play reasonably okay I'm fine with it, but I have a plan to finance her further education with some of my White Stripes rarities, so might shift those to the loft in the near future!

Ha! Very wise.

I've found that being prideful about any material possessions (including the clothes you are wearing) is generally incompatible with the yogurt-and-applesauce-covered whirlwind of destruction that is my darling Ivy.

The clothes I am wearing, that is, although if you come within range, the clothes you are wearing are fair game, too.

great photos as usual!
here's this six year old on her first day of first grade...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMxwepQUwAAA_Fd.png

She looks into it. How did it go?

been a couple weeks now -- she has complained a little bit about "all the work" but I think that is just that summer feeling lingering... only real issue is that she is in a different class than most of her friends from kindergarten. but hopefully some new friendships will develop.

A good friends 5yo did that thing this year of loving their first day at school, but then being genuinely appalled at the idea they had to go back again the next day

aw lol

so marin ate squid today and got an inky one
https://scontent-mad1-1.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/e35/11371123_886507381432361_1744809030_n.jpg

also the swimsuit is back to front but she liked it that way and i thought it made her look like elvis

Love it!

Oh boy, first day at school for Molly!

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/600/20620125703_4bd8c4b0ef_z.jpg

awwww!

Sometimes squid that you eat has ink in it?

(I do'nt eat much squid beyond the occasional calamari.)

apparently! I don't eat squid at all tbh, but my other half wasn't too worried about it!

I admit I'm a little skeeved out by the whole ink thing but I am often skeeved out by seafood in general.

Marin looks delightfully devilish in that picture, btw.

thanks! she has a zorro thing going on imo

she also ate a whole thing of french fries and about a gallon of ketchup. I'm not going to lie, I was pretty proud.

First day of school, down the ages...

(In 2008-09, Lulu was there for moral support; in 2010 she was in Nursery while Ava started Year 1 proper).

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5667/21249657855_675e290726_c.jpg

oh god. 2010!

I know, right?

wow!

omg how did they grow that much

this is messing with my head

also, they're insanely cute and i love them

Clapham Commoners...

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/606/21392849819_495186d7be_c.jpg

Cool!

awesome shot

woah!

we were working on the sleeve for her debut album today
https://igcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.2885-15/e35/11934865_1675080176045257_1944048472_n.jpg

So CUTE!

Seriously.

would buy

Isolde loves lemons:

http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah265/DJsleeve/IMG_0200_zpsnrja2jat.jpg

(this one had already been juiced and soaked in lemonade)

lemons! marin likes a lemon too...

So does Ivy! And limes and sour pickles and pickled onions and raw onions (she can be a very stinky child).

Isolde <3

am am inordinately proud of the fact that she was able to point at it in my cup and manage to enunciate something very close to "lemon" to indicate her desire <3

I haven't posted on here in a while

First day of kindergarten:
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10 months old:
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awwwwwww

<3

also xposts to sleeve: been meaning to say it makes this middle english lit major inordinately happy that you named yr little one Isolde :)

well it was my stepson and daughter-in-law who named their daughter (she is my granddaughter!), but yes it is an excellent name :)

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpl1/t31.0-8/12052490_10207837083385514_808965311345033312_o.jpg

apparently Isolde has been wearing a new hat for the last two days:

http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah265/DJsleeve/IMG_2188_zps3v7tec1r.jpg

get that kid onstage

I just bought that exact sleeper earlier today

Ava on the way to the park...

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/781/21988001261_67db53c55a_c.jpg

Lulu staring into the sun by the River Cray in Kent...

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5655/21790366688_78f5ab5143_c.jpg

Curled up together with my old iPhone on a Sunday morning...

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5692/21791299709_41e46cb3d0_c.jpg

Isolde has a toybox now

http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah265/DJsleeve/IMG_4388_zps3btjkc5y.jpg

Sigh... Those cheeks...

kids love boxes, it's a fact

Ben:
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5630/22283956739_5a08376d5e_b.jpg

Aw, Ben.

Someone got something very special for her 9th birthday...

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5635/22085029654_9873d0b742_c.jpg

When fiddling with her little Vox mini-amp, she asked us "so, would Mary Timony use flanger or chorus?" Hey, let's learn some chords first...

Flanger, imo. That's awesome! Is the Vox a Pathfinder?

It's a MINI-3 G2 CL, with some modelling modes. Got to think of the neighbours! Ava already has her drumkit...