ILP rolling photo quarantine 2

Ava playing her first pub gig, just before Xmas:

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

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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:

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

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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)
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(I really think she looks Robert Wagner in the Austin Powers movies in this one)

Awww!

She passed grade 2 drums...

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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:

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Fab boys, also lol at roller bag outside teepee

They are total city slickers.

What great kids

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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"

hahahaha what a wonderful photo

Lovely.

Always a joy to see this thread in New Answers.

Adorable.

Owen strutting
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4445/24169909948_6103562a52_b.jpg

keep on truckin

So we were driving somewhere the other day, and Marin said, "look daddy, i have dirt on my fingernail," and I turned around, and this is what I saw.

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ya burnt

looool

Kid's preschool had picture day a couple weeks ago. I kind of can't believe there's still somebody out there using 70s photo backdrops, plus the fake leaves and tire swing and hand in the pocket are just ridiculous and were killing us:
https://i.imgur.com/m85Vrsb.jpg

haha omg so cute (and weird)

he looks like a future leader of America

“i’d like to talk to you today about mutual funds”

lol yes

aww

7-year-old: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bau_j5Tl0wI/
almost 3-year-old: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ9LFTulxQl/

less sweary, yet more surly
https://instagram.fstn1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/t51.2885-15/e35/22802784_502303110135753_2326080023234084864_n.jpg

First amplified show for The Numberz at the Lexington last weekend. Oh boy, there were stage fright tears... but they ploughed through...

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Next day, being really quite alarmed by Susan Hiller's Channels at 180 The Strand...

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4559/26695740379_b1697740d6_b.jpg

Oh, I mustn't forget Halloween... Lulu was Harley Quinn...

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4525/37541513034_32da5ce802_b.jpg

..and Ava was Noel Fielding...

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4454/37541515364_34efe208c4_b.jpg

I do not know how you do it, managing to capture your girls so beautifully, every time.

Was this at one of the CF25 nights? They must be really good!

Aw, thanks! It was the all-ages matinee at CF25.