some fun at patterson park

it's a good thing that stacy bought blocks for fletcher so simon could eat them.

a seriuos discussion between father and son

simon tries to take eric seriously, but alas, he can't.

asleep in the jumperoo

while i was in the yard planting, eric was in the workshop making the office bookshelves. he called me in to see simon fast asleep. poor little baby...so tired.

let the homes tour work continue

a late night bath for simon and dad after a day of work on a fence

simon and a tutu

simon got to wear sabina jo's tutu before she did

- quite fetching on him.

simon eats with E3

cathy reads to simon because some one in the house has to pay attention to him homes tour or not

cathy visits and is put to work immediately...

with a lunch break in between - valerie and fletcher come to bring some comic relief.

on labor day weekend we all labored at 3206 french place - 4 cubic yards of soil moved from the road to the second floor garden. we started at 10:30 and finished around 7:00. thankfully two neighbors felt sorry for us and grabbed buckets and shovels in the late afternoon to help out or we might have been there until early sunday morning.

simon got to hang out with cathy when she wasn't shoveling dirt. eric got to pull the dirt to the roof. christie got to take pictures.

christie is happy to report that the garden is planted - broccoli, cauliflower, chard, spinach, beets, carrots, turnips, peas, collards and more, oh boy!

simon's beautiful cousins - 1st day of school

olivia (8th grade), caroline (7th grade) and ben (5th grade) sit for a photo shoot with nana in ct.

7 months - 30 weeks - 210 days - but who's counting?

I just want to eat him up, he's so cute.

eric and christy get some ozzie lovin' while simon gets some mary lynn lovin'

a fun night at nosh and mary lynn's - a large dog and a fan

entertained us all for hours.

the fun continued as both eric and christy determined

who was taller - the great dane or one of them?

simon sits in his "high chair" at table

simon had his first meal at the table in his chair - he no longer needs to sit in the bumbo to eat his grub. however, we discovered he can only sit in it for another 12 pounds.