Crowns

Buster on Daisy

Sometimes we call her Daisy, and sometimes we call her Dais-eh.

Street fair

A familiar site. Daisy about to take an unscheduled seat.

Well she's trying to take one, but there's a window in the way.

The latest failed attempt to be quicker than Buster's "don't take my picture!" spin-away.

Helping out on a mural.

Soccer!

It's not that the kid on the left is unclear on the concept. He's just following his bliss, if you know what I mean. Buster's pretty clear on the concept. He's surprisingly good and getting better at kicking the ball and having some idea where it's going. He doesn't really care where it's going, but it usually goes more or less where he means it to. There are no matches at these weekly sessions, just drills and games to teach them the various skills. Buster has established a talent level that can best be described as "Somewhere between Ronaldinho and the kid on the left."

Turtle races. This teaches them how to crawl on the ground and push the ball with their heads. I'm pretty sure I've seen Zenadine Zidane do this.

The Mia Hamm of the No. 3 diaper set. (9/18)

Daisy and some pirates

(9/16)

Just ...

... I don't know.

This is a better use of those shorts.

Baloon Glow

Here's what we were looking at:

Buster became a little concerned that the balloons were going to fall over on him.

But he was OK eventually.

Saturday

New York

Tennessee

The Satchmo

of the milk bottle

Fire truck visit

Following in his father's footsteps, Buster has his picture taken with a giant costumed mascot, in this case the fire department's dalmation, which accompanied a fire truck on a visit to Daisy's day care.

Daisy, meanwhile, not following Dad's footsteps at all, just wanted to go to work. (9/6)

Welcome to the doll stroller

This ain't no Mudd Club

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.