don't we all feel like this sometimes?

clearing the backlog

while the camera is broken, we dug up some videos from the vault.

daddy's girl

do you see the resemblance between L.I.A. and Ty as a baby?

Dispatch from Grandpa

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Date: Jun 24, 2010 4:12 PM
Subject: IMG00024.jpg
To: "Melanie Malloy" <memetheo@gmail.com>

Max reading the contributor in the jeep. He gave the homeless paper man a dollar for it.
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first day at the beach

"big boy"

Afternoon at the babysitter's house. Mrs. Paul has Max in her lap and pretends to feed him a bottle

MRS. PAUL: You're a baby!

MAX: No I'm not, I'm a big boy!

MRS. PAUL: Yes you are, you're a baby!

Max leaps up and performs a dizzying array of jumps, spins, and rolls.

MAX: Babies can't do that, big boys do that!

pictures to come soon, promise.

sing a song of opposites

to the tune of "Mary had a little lamb"

MAMA: This is fast and this is

MAX: SLOW!

MAMA: This is fast, this is

MAX: SLOW!

MAMA: This is fast and this is

MAX: SLOW!

MAMA: Sing along with me...

second verse

MAMA:This is black and this is

MAX: WINDOWS!

Cousin Célimène

L.I.A.'s first outing (at 3 days!) was to visit her cousin, world-class pianist Célimene Daudet.

Budget Halloween 2010

Turtle.

camera's on the fritz

So please accept some fuzzy cell phone pictures til we get it back and running.

playing favorites

Morning, at home. Max wakes up in his bedroom and hears L.I.A. talking to Mama in the living room

L.I.A.: ahhhh ehhhhuhhehhhhaaah ppppbbbbttt ahhhh

from his bedroom

MAX: Good morning L.I.A.! I hear you, I'm coming... Hi L.I.A.!

MAMA: Good morning, Max!

Max walks in and gives Mama the side-eye

MAX: I was talking to L.I.A.

visitors

We had a lovely visit from Grandpa's friends (and secret blog readers) Shirlyn and Danell.  They brought lovely gifts for L.I.A. (and hairbows for those who can't tell that pink skirt = girlchild) and a puzzle for Max, who watched as we put it almost all the way together, then came through with the last piece for the win. Thanks ladies!

self-portrait

Max has an eye for photography. An EYE, get it? nyuk nyuk nyuk.