Easter egg hunt

In the house.




4/4/10

I am the fly

4/3/10

Baseball

Buster's first baseball team is the Hooks, named after a Double-A team in Corpus Christi. Here he is on photo day, showing his newly learned throwing form -- point your shoulder, arm up, turn your core, hand in left pocket.

Daisy also has the Tim Lincecum look going, but needs a little work on the form yet.


Down and ready at third base in the first game of the season.

The season just ended, but Dad got roped into being a coach, and didn't get any more pix.
4/2/10

Gay marriage

Daisy: [Certain friend] says kissing and marrying is gross.
Dad: Aw, and I was planning on asking her if she wanted to marry me.
Noooo!
I'm just kidding. That's all right. [Friend] is 5 years old. She doesn't need to worry about kissing and marrying.
I know.
What do you think of kissing and marrying?
Yum!
You like kissing, don't you. Who are you going to marry?
Bunny!
Is Bunny a boy or a girl?
Girl.
OK.
[Friend] thinks girls can't get married to girls and boys can't get married to boys, but they can.
That's right.
Girls can marry girls, and women can marry women, and boys can marry boys, and men can marry men, and men can marry women, and women can marry men.

Indoctrination session complete. Next up: Single-payer universal health care! Mwooohahahaaaa!

A kiss from the future daughter-in-law.
4/8/10

Drive, he said

3/27/10

Strummer's pirate birthday party

Strummer

Big kids waiting for the piñata. Django is in front of Buster, in the red and white shirt. Elvis is in the red, at lower right. Gina is next to Buster, with the bandanna

Littler kids. That's Daisy's future kinder classmate Ariana.

How can you smack such a cute pirate boy?

Arrrr! The kid met a sad fate, mateys.

This piñata brought to you by Fellini

Dennis flips the bird

Don't remember what was so funny, but it was funny. Did we mention? Another front tooth: Gone
3/21/10

Green dress

3/11/10

First baseball practice

He came home with his hat and jersey. He's a Hook. The team is named after the Corpus Christi Hooks, the Double-A farm club of the Houston Astros.

3/5/10

Beehaveyoer Chart

Created by Buster, without prompting. It's a copy of his teacher's chart for all kids at school.

3/5/10

Face paint

One of those times when the red-eye correction wouldn't improve the photo.

2/26/10

Lost a front one

2/10/10

Quesadilla

Chef Buster about to get to work on his signature dish. Note the short-order tag taped to the cabinet with everyone's orders. It says:

Pork: Mom
Trky: Daisy
Spisi: Dad
(Illegible line)
Put ranch dresingon salid
2/6/10

Birthday party

Getting ready for his Rock 'n' Roll birthday party.

Princesses can be kind of rock 'n' roll, don't you think? Note the "Welcome Home Daddy" sign, a Buster-Daisy collaboration celebrating dad's return home from the hospital the day before.

Some of the posse. From left, Ada, Javier, Strummer, Buster, Oliver.

1/30/10

Birthday

Crown from school, present from Grandma Ann and Granddad Jim
1/29/10

Cozy house update

The improvements include an address, 606, new window treatments and a sign that says, "I need alone time." Absolutely none of this was prompted by any adult. At some point after this Buster colored the sign because, he said, people were ignoring it.
1/17/10

Hospital visit

Dad went into the hospital on Jan. 6. Because of H1N1 fears, no kids are allowed to visit. Now, 11 days into Dad's stay, the kids have gotten special permission to go see him. Daisy has put on her prettiest dress and everyone, even Coco, has to wear a mask.
1/17/10

Christmas in January

Uncle Matt's package arrives.

Welcome to the family, Coco.
1/12/10

Still racing

1/3/10

Remote control car

Racing in the street.


It says, "pit stop."
1/1/10

New Year

Same giant head.
1/1/10

New Year's Eve

12/31/09

Buster's cozy house

Buster crafted what he calls his cozy house out of boxes that Christmas and Chanukah presents came in. He spent a couple of hours on it, cutting and taping away. It has since been remodeled extensively, but this was the initial iteration.

Interior decoration includes a Pillow Pet pillow and a special rack for his walkie talkie.

And some exterior decoration too. You know, you do roock.

New with this update! Click each picture for a larger image.
12/25/09

Christmas morning

Waiting for Mom to wake up, watching the yule log on TV.

Now we're getting somewhere. Into the stockings.

A belt.

Hello, Hello Kitty.

Yes! Judy Blume Fudge book.

Something new since last year: Buster can read the labels himself.

Getting crowded.


Resorting to weaponry.

Drums!

Daisy talks on her new phone about her new robot dog.
12/25/09

Walkie talkies

Trial run.

12/25/09

Buster likes his first present

Each kid gets to open one present on Christmas Eve. Buster thought his was OK.

12/24/09