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.

Lake

Fixer-upper

This was one of those "we'll fix up your bathroom" displays at the mall. The photo didn't really convey how cute it was when Daisy got in the bathtub and played around for a while, but cropped down to a close-up, even though it's a little blurry, she just looks too cute not to use it. I mean, look at that (blurry) mug.

Horse

This [points to ottoman] is my horse. And this [rocking chair] is my carriage.
First comes love, then comes marriage.
What?
Nothing. What's your horse's name?
His name is ... is ... is ... [etc.] ... Lulu.
Lulu! That's just like Daisy's nickname.
Yeah.
It's a boy horse named Lulu?
No, it's a girl horse.
Oh, so her name is Lulu.
Yeah. And she's pink. There's all different color horses.
I've never seen a pink horse before. I've seen a pink elephant a time or two.
[Inaudible hullabullabulla] pink elephant.
What?
I was talking to my horse.
Oh. What did you say to your horse?
I said, "Let's get going, horse, and maybe we can go and see some pink elephants."
That's a good idea. Or, well, it always kind of seems like a good idea at the time.
Or some green elephants.

Boots

Hiya doin' there

This is what you'd call a cookie-eatin' grin.

Hug