Batman

has gotta eat too.

And evidently bumblebees have gotta blow up basketballs.

An announcement

Alas, poor note taking. What Buster was saying here -- with a maraca standing in for the microphone -- was funny, but is now lost to history.

Here's a slightly older conversation instead.

I have a new restaurant.
You do? What's it called?
It's called Come to the New Restaurant and Eat Whenever You Can.

Well-rounded children

Study hall

Boogie break

Red tide?

No. Cardinals rally downtown before Game 3 of the Padres series. Only after publishing this did I notice that Daisy is mimicking the statue. Or vice-versa. (10/7)

Daisy is a punk rocker

Well New York City really has it all
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed is taking orders.
What would you like?
I'll have some apple pie.
I don't have pie. I only have drinks.
Oh, OK. I'll have some apple juice.
I don't have any apple juice.
Well, what do you have?
I only have apple cha-bapp.
[Very nearly passes coffee through nose.]

The hat is a pot, you see. Apparently a Johnny Appleseed thing.

Manoletdaisy

¡Olé!

Daisy: What Happened?

In the dressing room on the last night of the tour.

Writing

Buster's learning his letters. He can't sit down and write a word yet on his own, but he'll ask what the next letter is and write it. The actual question is "What comes after next?"

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