at the Fuller's "rivah" house near the Chesapeake

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Like Rice-A-Roni (a San Francisco treat!)

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Peter learning his animal noises

Peter repeating his animal noises book. Some drool is involved, too.

Himalayan Highlights

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Peter's Birthday and Halloween Pics

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Pics from Peter's birthday and Halloween. Sorry that Photobucket jumbled them all up. I don't have time to reload them all!

Also, a few videos:

Peter on Halloween. Playing "Boo" and laughing hilariously with Mommy. He also knows how to blow when you say something is "hot."

Peter playing with his new toy from Ian and Liz. One of the first toys he really understands how to work that doesn't just involve banging or putting things in his mouth.

Fall Fun in Moses Lake

Some pics of the last few weeks, and the kids enjoying the fall weather and playing together. We had one costume party so far...looking forward to Peter's birthday on Saturday and a few more Halloween get-togethers the rest of the month!

Portland/Seattle 2012

Pics from our Portland/Seattle trip. It was kind of a whirlwind so we didn't get too many pics. The bulk of the pics are from the very fun Children's Museum in Portland, and a few from the Rose Garden, and then a few cousin pics in Seattle. We also did Portland shopping, the International District in Seattle, and the Issaquah Cougar Mountain Zoo, but those will all have to remain undocumented! We also enjoyed some yummy ethnic food -- Thai and Indian buffet in Portland and Chinese in Seattle -- as well as cooked some salmon from Jon's fishing trip. When we got home, we made sushi with the rest of the salmon. Yum!

Discovery Park

Happened to have a friend (Tim) with a nice camera on our last trip to Discovery Park.

Discovery Park

Eva's birthday and prior pics

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Pics from the last month or so, including Peter at 10 month and Eva's birthday. There are some duplicates if you've seen pics on FB, but I wanted them all in one place! I'm not sure why Photobucket put them in reverse order, you'll just have to think nonlinearly when you view them.

videos...

This is poor, patient Peter, just trying to get a bite of string cheese:

Bop and GG's birthday card for Eva came in the mail today, and it was singing, so I let her open it one day early:

Mountain goats on Quandary

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Row, row, row your scull

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Chicago Air Show from Melissa & Richard's condo

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Highlights from Liz, Ian, Molly, and Cormac

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Highlights from Laura, Jon, Eva, and Peter

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Ok, so this might be when Mom and Dad are headed to Chicago already...but who wants to go?

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I've seen Marshall with the Bottle Rockets before and it was a really fun concert.

A cool breeze

Hey, I said that I'd catch up didn't I? With even the West Washington folks currently enjoying the sunshine how would you all like to cool down with some snow pictures from Feb-March?

Winter Snow

Feb / March

Peter wrestling with Eva

Peter Eight Months

Pics of Peter at eight months although he got a bad cold after our VBS volunteering week and was down for a few days! But he's cheerful again and on the mend, although last night he went to bed at 2:40 in the afternoon and didn't wake up until 5:50 the next morning. At all! So...I guess he's in need of some extra sleep. He's also been enjoying a lot of table and finger foods...

Also, Eva playing around in the yard and trying a new inflatable kayak option with Daddy, although we are still deciding future kayak plans that might not include the particular one.

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Highlights from Free Prix Day

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I went to Free Prix Day Friday morning in the pouring rain. Reminds me of a photographer's aphorism -- "bad weather equals good pictures." Which remeinds me of a second aphorism -- "your first 10,000 pictures are your worst;" I've got 12,000 now in Lightroom, so my photographs should be starting to improve!
-Dad

Memorial Day in Paradise

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The Stand-Up Paddleboard (SUP to the cognoscenti) is Mom's birthday present. The turtle is laying eggs in the driveway, and the robin's eggs have hatched in our kayak. Mom's portraits just make our garden look better. The interior shots are to show Grandma Huff some of the furnishings she gave us -- we'll visit her 3rd weekend in June.
- Dad

Geneva by HDR

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new carnival pics

I've added new carnival pics from my phone to the album in the previous post. I thought it was best to keep them all together.

Also, a video of Eva and Molly on their "big girl" fair ride, the Demolition Derby:

Then, Eva's mash-up song. The lyrics seem to go from Snow Patrol's "please just save me from this darkness," her favorite pop lyric, to her favorite line of Sunday School theology and then hot-weather fluid intake recommendations. You get it all with this one!

Peter Seven Months and Cousins Visit

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Some pics from the last month and then the cousins' visit.

Peter Six-Month Pics

Some belated pics from Peter at six months old and a few pics with Grandma. We kept her busy so we didn't get too many photos -- and Peter was a stinker for the first few days!

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Kauai Highlights

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Angry Bird

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Some spring pix I took while working on the roof last weekend. Not sure if the link will work because Google/Picasa have gone and changed again; apparently they heard that I had figured out how to use their old software . . . must be time for a change!

-Dad

Peter Five Months and New Chickies

** The embedded links are slideshows. To see all the pics, click on "view."  I'm trying photobucket now because they offer unlimited free storage! It looks good so far. To download a picture, click on an individual picture and hover over the top left of the pic. You'll see options appear for "file/download." One of the other options is "save to my album," so you could also conceivably save my pics to your own photobucket account.

Some pics of life now. The first album is pics of our new chicks. Jon's making "chicken tractors" for them to live in outside once they're bigger, but for now they all hang out inside. Cute! We should be getting eggs by the fall if all goes well. The fencing pics are Eva "getting in the cage" as Jon and I were stretching out the mesh for the sides of the chicken tractor.

The next is pics of the kids. Peter started eating some cereal. He likes it okay, sometimes more than other times, and so far I haven't noticed a difference in his spitting up. Now he just spits up cereal too. But we'll see. It's only about once a day so far, so maybe it will start to make a difference. Eva's been a big help in the garden now. She can ride her bike around the grass, help us plant seeds, weed, etc. We got her a garden tool bag at Walmart in the Easter section and she loves having a space for her own tools. She gets very dirty outside and loves it!
Also, there are a few videos of Peter. They're not great videos, but I thought you'd all like to see some of his milestones -- namely, laughing and rolling over!

The great catch up begins

So I was looking at pictures and vids from Laura and Jon and I said to myself, "hey we should post some pictures, I wonder when the last time we posted was?" And I realized that it was like October of last year. So I'm going to try to catch up in a post or two before Liz and I leave on our trip. First up is Molly's birthday, Cormac's birthday and Christmas.

Molly B-Day

Nov - Dec

~E

Video: Peter has things to say. And here are some pics from the last month, up to Peter's four-month pics. He's been pretty sad since his shots yesterday, so it was actually hard to get cheerful pics with his four-month sign. Hopefully he'll be back to his normal cheerful self soon. At his four-month checkup he was 15 pounds (50%), 24" long (25%). He also rolled over twice yesterday morning just before we left for the doctor. Guess he figured he was old enough to learn something new. Meanwhile, Eva has learned the joys :-( of not napping...

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Ice fishing in Istanbul?

Karen dances to "Istanbul, not Constantinople," while Matt adapts ice fishing to the global warming era.

The year so far in videos...

The year so far (ha!) in videos...

Peter waking up happy (he says "hi"):

Eva driving on Peter (poor guy):

Next, we do a lot of this around here: cooking cars and fussing. Oh well! When Jon's home, Eva races her cars. But when he's not here, she mostly cooks and packs them. They mostly drive to McDonald's and park. And sometimes get time outs.

Last, Eva cooking actual (play) food this time and shopping. And talking stream of consciousness ALL THE TIME! :-) Two videos...

Peter three-month pics

Here are pictures from the last month. Peter's getting happier, but it's still hard to capture his fleeting smiles on camera! And Eva's just a grump these days when the camera comes out, so it's almost more difficult to get pictures of her. Sigh...it's just a phase!

Peter Three Month Pics

Here's how to download pictures from Flickr:

• Click on the picture you want to download.
• Click on the "Actions" menu on the top left of the picture.
• Select "View all sizes."
• From there, select the size you'd like to download.

Not sure how to go about batch downloading, but could look that up later if anyone needs it.