You're kidding, right?

Now what's really for dinner?

What's for dinner?

One kid we can't get to sit on the pot ...

Spectacles

Special glasses that come with the pop-up "Wizard of Oz" book.

Lulu's Lei and Candy Shop

is what her shirt says. And how about a hand for Olivia!

Get your motor runnin'

Old school

Wearing Mommy's dress, vintage circa 1968. (And Molly Ringwald's haircut, circa 1985?)

Buster dives in!

to about two inches of water at the Tower Grove Park wading pool. (late July)

Dave

[Big worker voice] I'm gonna go in the house, OK Dave?
Uh ... [bursts into laughter]
[Very serious] Your name is Dave.
It is?
Yes.
I'm sorry for laughing. I didn't know my name was Dave. You surprised me and it made me laugh.

[Note: Buster doesn't like it when you laugh at him, and recently said, "When someone's being funny and you laugh, that's OK, but when you laugh at someone, that's not very nice." That was in his normal voice. Now you have to go back to imagining his big worker voice, which is very deep. Picture Lucille Ball dressed up as a man, for some scam, you know? And imitating a man's voice. That's what it sounds like.]

[Another note: I don't think we know anyone named Dave. It's hard to convey how out-of-the-blue this sounded. OK, I'd just apologized for laughing.]

It's not funny.
Yes it is.
No, it's not. Your name is Dave.
OK. And what's your name?
My name is Zhuzhen.
Su-Jen?
No, Zhuzhen.
Nice to meet you, Zhuzhen.
No, we live together. You live in my house, Dave.

Gotcha again

And the horse you rode in on (late July)

Off to the workhouse

Sorting it out

Does Mommy have Daisy?
Yes.
Why?
I guess Daisy wanted to go with her.
I think Daisy loves Mommy more than she loves you.
No. Daisy loves Mommy and Daisy loves me. Just like you love Mommy and you love me, and just like I love Daisy and I love you.
Yeah, and just like I love Daisy and I love myself.

The tickle monster

strikes

Got it made

Furlined seats and lettered windscreen
Elbow on the windowsill
Eight track blazing Brucie Springsteen
Bomber jacket, dressed to kill

Siouxsie Sioux

Part 2?

Gotcha!

Snuck one past the don't-take-my-picture guard

More walking

Feet on the ground this time (mid-July)

Bath time

In the kitchen? Also note the new double pony tails (mid-July)

Bright

Paging Dr. Freud

Daddy, you're the daddy giraffe and I'm the baby giraffe and Mommy's the mommy giraffe. But Daisy's not a giraffe. She's a zebra. She lives in a different cage.

Aghghh!!

My hand is gone!