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April 28, 2010 @ 6:26 am | Filed under: Baby,Huck,Photos

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February 14, 2010 @ 4:27 pm | Filed under: Baby,Photos

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January 15, 2010 @ 4:41 pm | Filed under: Baby,Photos

When Rilla saw this shirt among Huck’s birthday presents (thanks, Grandma!), she said, “We’re going to dress him in MAN clothes!”

Looks like he’s ready for his first job interview, doesn’t he? If the skill set they’re looking for includes eating dust bunnies and ransacking cabinets, he’s a shoo-in.

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January 13, 2010 @ 4:49 am | Filed under: Baby,Family,Photos

From this

To this

::::::::likethis::::::::

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December 20, 2009 @ 5:58 pm | Filed under: Baby,Huck,Photos

elf

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November 4, 2009 @ 7:55 pm | Filed under: Baby,Family,Huck,Photos

Once upon a time, there was a very tidy cupboard.

Then along came young Sir Destructalot.

destructoman

Having wreaked maximum havoc, he paused, well pleased with his efforts…

cupboard

…and looked around for new frontiers.

whatnext

Enticing prospects beckoned at the far corners of his world, but first he would have to figure out how to bridge a perilous gap.

newdirection

Triumph! And now bravely through the tunnel he strode, scoffing at those who would take the more conventional route around the table.

underthetable

Eagerly he made for the row of tempting treasures on the shelf, their bright colors practically begging him to pull them free of their wooden prison.

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But just as his massive fist reached the first jewel-toned, delectably gummable beauty, the Voice of Doom sounded from above.

He would have to seek other bounty.

Undaunted, he set forth in a new direction. No Voice of Doom could quell his spirits. There was a great wide world out there for the grabbing,

byebyeplant

and he had just the fists for the job.

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October 31, 2009 @ 10:47 am | Filed under: Baby,Huck,Photos

dollbaby

I hate to break it to him, but I think he’s a little too big to play Tom Thumb.

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September 21, 2009 @ 6:58 am | Filed under: Baby,Huck,Photos

for more pictures…

3littles

the godmother gets

parkday

more pictures.

parknap

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September 18, 2009 @ 7:06 pm | Filed under: Baby,Huck,Photos

8months

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August 18, 2009 @ 8:12 am | Filed under: Baby,Huck,Photos

snake

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“Exploration,” says John Stilgoe, author of Outside Lies Magic, “is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.”

Yes: it is so, so much fun, and that is why I write these posts all chattery with excitement over this or that connection the kids made today. (Or that I made myself!) I know I get carried away, but that’s the point, isn’t it, that way leading on to way has carried me away?

And yet—and yet—I think we are at once ‘carried away’ and made more fully present in the now, more rooted, by these relationships between ideas about things past and future. The joy of connection makes me want to celebrate this moment, this brief encounter with wild-haired child and broad-trunked tree, bus going by, sign on church wall, Scottish warlord creeping over the tower wall and startling the English soldier’s wife who has just put her babe in arms to sleep by crooning that the Black Douglas won’t get him. Child, laughing, shouting “Dinna ye be sae sure aboot that!” across the courtyard outside the library. How can I not celebrate this freedom?

(from a post called Way Leads on to Way)

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Every day is complicated, messy, and full of friction. And every day has glorious or cozy moments worth celebrating. I seldom bother to chronicle the friction and the mess because writing time is fleeting and precious—and childhood even more so. I’d rather capture the small joys that I might forget—or take for granted—if I don’t take time to set them down in words.

(Excerpt from this post about Real Life, quoted here because I don't want anyone to be under the impression that things are always perfect around here! Heaven knows we are anything but. Perfect, frictionless, orderly? Nope. Happy? Most of the time!)