Inclusiveness

It was very, very important to us that every member of our family be documented.

Family talents

We may not have a lot of natural talents, as a family group.  But we are definitely going to take credit for our skills in timer portrait photography.  No outtakes, here.  This was all the snaps we took!

Our parents

Exoskeletons

And here's us with our silly endoskeletons.  That we can't even molt.

Tomato sirens

It was a stroke of luck that Julia insisted that we have a fire drill this very morning.  We were thus prepared, disaster-wise, when the tornado sirens went off right after lunch. 

 Forty-five minutes and no tornados later, we emerged from the basement.  For our parents, the most harrowing part of the experience was listening to the girls discuss the lockdown drills they have at school. 

Sick days

Somewhere in this huddle heap of blankeys

is a boy with a gastrointestinal virus.

One of those days

Sometimes you just have one of those days.  You know?

Hot cocoa days

Just what we needed on a chilly day.

Read to someone

Borrowed from Ms Prasad-Heintz's blog, here is an action shot of kindergarden:

Is it any wonder we love school?

Halloween wind down

Julia sorted her candy by size: small, medium, and large.

Whereas Anna preferred her candy sorted by candy type: a different pile for each of Snickers, M&Ms, etc.

John dumped everything into a bowl and spontaneously counted to twenty (previous record: 7). 

We love our different children's different skills and choices and ways of seeing (and sorting) the world.  We do. 

Halloween

Once appropriately costumed, we hit the streets for some Trick-or-Treating. 

So many of the neighbors were so generous and friendly!



Wait for me!!

And when it started to rain, we headed to where any family of nerd kids would go: UChicago.  One of the friendly dorms was doing trick-or-treating and we got lots of great candy from them. 

Halloween after

A sparkle princess



A rainbow princess


Some kind of stompy dragon-dino thing


With sparkles.