We met the aunt who is watching b.g. and his little brother. I guess he was mad in the morning because he wanted to come straight to Julia’s birthday party and had trouble understanding it wasn’t until the END of the day. But this was a lot of fun. Thank goodness it was overcast, because […]
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Julia, Julia, you are the most enthusiastic birthday girl. This entire occasion has been nothing but hilarious and wonderful and fun. The whole family is so happy you’re in it–giddy, joyful YOU. You make everything better. love you forever, Mom, Dad, and everybody
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Tonight, buying a birthday present for my baby. My baby is turning eight. That’s an old baby. It’s been so much fun having all these girls, all these little girls and all their foolishness and wild giggling, and storming pouty huffs, the barbie dolls and hair ribbons, the weddings, the bridesmaids. julia john and dannell’s
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Cute kids, Wisconsin, all you need. There was tubing. His hair was hilarious, as usual. That’s our friend, soaking up the sun, and her child, far left above, eating marshmallows, etc. He handed me the camera, pressed his face to mine and said, “Take a picture of us!” Okay. This is the result. Here we’re teaching her,
We headed out to this splash pad in a suburb not too far from us. We’d been there about thirty seconds and Tim moped, “There’s nothing to do.” I’m so kind. I snapped, “Are you kidding me? Get out of here.” Thirty seconds later, I looked up and saw this: He found something to do.
Our days don’t vary all that much. We worked a lot during the weekend, went to church, ate hamburgers. This morning was the usual Tuesday morning sales meeting at the office, and then we did this: Here they’ve flooded the sandbox to make rivers and mountains. Eventually we went to the pool. That kid is
This is a Monday night picture of James’ long board injuries. Mostly that night we were concerned about his hand, whether it was broken or not, but by the next day it was clear it wasn’t. Ice helped, and we sponged his wounds with lidocaine from the first aid kit. Anyway, the kids were telling old
How I love you. It’s over one hundred degrees here today, and that doesn’t happen often, and no I don’t love that. It’s too hot. At work tonight, we were trying to count the damned narcotics and all at once I was dizzy and seeing sparkles around the edges and had to bail for a
