Lincoln Park Zoo

Today was the first day of Jack's spring break and the first really nice day of the year. Perfect zoo day.

Jack fencing

Jack takes a fencing class once a week in an after school program. This was part of the end-of-quarter tournament. In case the scoring isn't clear, Jack won this bout.

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Ish

Puppet show at Jack's school potluck. Jack is the narrator.

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Happy birthday Jack!

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Sleeping beauty, and a wombat

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Pretty in pink

Happy Valentine's Day!

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One more snow pic

Hugo in snow

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Cate and me in snow

It was blowing really hard, so Cate and I only stayed out for a few minutes. Ellis didn't make it that long, so there's no "Ellis in snow" picture.

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After snow

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Jack in snow

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Snow

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Snow

Our picture window in the front of the house. The snowfall isn't particularly impressive (especially by VT standards), but the wind and drifting were crazy. Also, thunder and lightening!

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Christmas in San Diego

Here's a slideshow of our Christmas visit to San Diego. You can click the slideshow to go to the web album.

Jack's book

This is the dedication page of Jack's book "Imaginary Creatures!"

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Three child riot

Actually they are having a lot of fun building traps for each other. But that is a flipped over chair in the middle of the bed.

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La Jolla

We are having a lot of fun exploring the rocks and climbing trees at the Cove in La Jolla.

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Cate's cake

Happy birthday baby girl!

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Playground in December

We are enjoying our California vacation and looking forward to Matt, Jack, Hugo joining us tonight.

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Ready for Christmas

We are spending Christmas in San Diego this year, but since the boys were excited about decorating we got a little tree for our house. The boys had a great time putting up all the decorations. Cate slept through most of the festivities.

Hyde Park parrots

There is a flock of parrots that live in Hyde Park. Lately we've seen a lot of then in trees around campus eating red berries.

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Little Yellow Jackets

We went to see the GT-Northwestern game last night. The game was terrible - we got destroyed - but our friends Chris and Rebecca were there with their daughter Gioia. Jack, Ellis, Cate, and Gioia were all over the arena, cheering and climbing and eating and generally being unruly. Chris was the first friend I made when I went to Tech and I get such a kick out of seeing our kids play together. In this picture, Jack and Gioia are waving their white and gold shakers so fast that my cell phone camera couldn't catch up.

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Thanksgiving

Our first Thanksgiving with just our little family, and our first with all 5 of us. We missed seeing our extended family, but it was very nice to celebrate on our own.

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Reckless!

Cate is a climber.

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Spurs

Jack is playing basketball now. He is actually pretty good. His team is the Spurs. They are not good, but that's ok. They spend half the time doing skills workshops and only a little time on their half court games.

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Sweet foster kittens

The four foster kittens we have right now (Zombie, Fog Machine, Itchy, and Scratchy) are some of the friendliest kittens we've ever met. Zombie and Fog Machine are deep grey while Itchy and Scratchy are pure black. They are all beautiful!

Look at Cate go!

Grandpa takes great pictures

Here are some of the pictures Pete took during their visit.

Halloween!

We had a very busy Halloween weekend - parade and party at Jack's school, two parties with friends, and trick-or-treating. The boys wanted to be Ben 10 aliens (their favorite superhero characters) and Cate wore the little pumpkin costume that all three have worn for their first Halloween. I made the Ben 10 costumes - I was happy with how they turned out and the boys had a lot of fun wearing them.

Jack tries on his Ben 10 Four Arms costume.

One of the few times Cate looks small

Working on the pumpkin

Checking out the newly lit jack-o-lantern

Ta da!

Four Arms ready for school

Four Arms and Big Chill

Big Chill waiting for the parade

Four Arms marching in his school parade

Cute little pumpkin! Our friend Chris took this picture at their Halloween party.

Big Chill is fired up for trick or treating

The whole gang at our friends' house.

Trick or treat!