Ice Skating

For Papioca's 2014 Winter trip we were blessed with skating ice.  Here's some pictures of Amelia and Ella on the track he groomed for us.  No flashes were used in the taking of these photos; it was the magic hour.

Hugs

Firing this blog up again. The girls are really enjoying revisiting it. Not sure why I stopped; especially considering how hard drives fail and I'm a bad backer-upper. Don't worry, I turned off the date stamp.

Happy Halloween

Please note that we made the girls' costumes this year.

Amelia as Chucky-Dorothy: Dorothy is from "The Wizard of Oz" and Chucky is from "Rugrats." She wanted to be Chucky and since we were making a Dorothy costume, dammit, we just threw in the name Chucky for effect; it worked.
Celeste sewed the dress and I glued red glitter on combat boots.

I thought I was making a Toto costume for Ella, but it turned into more of a Scarecrow/Lion hybrid. I prefer to think of her as a woodland creature. I sewed the felt together and used scissors to make fur/hay. She sure is pretty fucking cute.

Vacation

Don't Eat The Leaf

A Horse Back Ride

This is Amelia riding our family friends Diane and Dorothy's horse; the horse is named Dori. She took right to it and spontaneously broke into song.

Amelia and the Snowman.

Ella on the floor

If you're really patient--and quiet--you'll hear her say dadadadada (that's me!).

Halloween

Ella playing piano

Amelia Climbing The High-Chair

Blowing Blobbles

"I see broccoleez."

Haha, this is possibly my favorite video ever, so far--because Ella pulls Amelia's hair at the end. Sisters!

Please enjoy Amelia reading to Ella.

That's the sound...

of the men, working on the chain gang. It's also the sound of Amelia teaching Ella to dance.

Ella Cooing

Man, it really sounds like she's got something to say.

Yertle, is that you?

We took a trip to the Natural History Museum before that tropical storm rolled through last Saturday. Here's a picture of the girls in front of a big turtle. Yertle?

Now that's an armadillo!

Honky Tonk Blues

The girl's got moves.

Ella Hangs Ten

Here's the first in our series of vacation photos. Ella's learning to surf.

This is a preview of my "vacation."

12 children in 1 house. The oldest child all of 8 years old. We love it though; we're sadomasochists.