Michael

wait do i hear something?

sorry can you repeat that...
really! mommy's where?!

well come on then...

lets go!

Water curtain

Mom? You let EVAN drive the tractor!?!

Another idealist

"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still."

Ronald Reagan

Farewell Address to the Nation
Oval Office
January 11, 1989

We are the champions!

Emma, Lauri Anne and Maragret

Need I say more?

Diving lesson

I read teach Your Baby to Swim by Claire Timmermans. It's a lovely book with some nice thoughts on gentle mothering; something I always need reminding of. I haven't taught Michael
to swim yet but I did learn how to teach Lauri Anne and her cousins to dive.

Ready:













set:















Go!













Come back!!!!













I did it!!!

I have teeth!

Yes, my mother has seen six other children grow out countless teeth, yet these are still a marvel, a sight to behold. Look everyone! Teeth!