Ready

Just a few days before the start of school now, and rockin the new backpack. Oh hell yeah. That's how you wear a backpack. Uh-huh. When Buster wears a backpack, it stays worn, baby.

_chool

[Mom, on the way to school open house] I'm excited to see the learning carpet.
Yeah. I sit on the F.
I know, I want to see the F.
No, we don't have an S.
There's no S?
No.
I think there's an S. There's all the letters.
No. Remember? [Sings] A-B-C-D-E-F-G, H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P, Q-R-S-T-U-V --
There was an S in there.
Yeah. We don't have that.

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Note: There is, in fact, an S on the learning carpet. This picture was taken on Aug. 19, at a welcome event a week before the start of the school year. It was Buster's first time seeing his new school. He immediately loved it.

Big day

They both face forward now! This was a couple of weeks after Daisy's first birthday, but you also have to be 20 pounds. We cheated by 7 ounces.

Yum

Still at the lake

Doodloodloodloo ... doodloodloodloo*

[On phone] Hello?

Oh, hi, Grandma Ann. Are you going to come and visit us again?

I don't know if you can.

Let me go and look at the clock, I'll see what time it is.

[Goes to kitchen, looks at clock.]

It's 40 o'clock.

I don't know if you can come, but it doesn't matter if you can't.

OK, see you later.

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* - In falsetto, the sound of a phone ringing.