Dinner, by any other name

Might taste as sweet.
Or be as fitting an occassion for messing around.
Feel free to imagine the noises that come with these faces.
You won't be wrong.

Sesquiannual Day

Just a handful of photos from Olivia's Half Again.
One with Mommy measuring her in the closet.
The last from Funny Hair Day at school - I wish I make bunny ears for her like these.

Featuring....a Duck!

Her first experience with real live ducks and it seemed as if she had always been feeding live animals from her hand. The transition from static, book ducks for which Olivia inserts the quack-quack to real ducks swimming in high water and eating goldfish crackers that she threw a safe distance away was accomplished without fanfare. She amazes me, if not herself.

I'll Love You, Dear, I'll Love You Till China and Africa Meet...

"I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.

"The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world."

from W.H. Auden's "As I Walked Out One Evening".

Image-In

We got a new camera. For Olivia. We like it alot.

These were taken March 8.

The Evidence

She climbs on. Really. I don't put them together - she wants to sit on him. Really.

The Forebearance of a Bear (Brown Bear, Henry)

She is actually jumping up and down on his aged hips and shoulders.
And he just takes it.
Gosh, he must love this kid, nearly as much as she loves him.