avablog

This blog sucks! Eh. It was a busy July. I took the photo below yesterday afternoon after Ava had dressed herself to go play outside. Pay special note to the orange ribbon in her hair, which she specifically wanted to be visible from under her sunbonnet.

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G.G. is in town this week to spend some time with Ava, who has a week off camp. Yesterday, the two of them put together a nice picnic lunch and met L and me in the park next to our office, where we dined on sandwiches, chips and fruit under a cloudy sky. It was [...]

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I realized over the weekend that I’m way behind in getting shots of Emmett. Easy enough to rectify, fortunately.

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I want you to know, Dearest Boy, that I feel frustrated today by the knowledge that we have all been here in this world for so long now that every word I want to use to tell you how inspiring you are has been used thousands and thousands of times in every way to profess [...]

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Ava’s trip to her grandmother’s out of town is providing a most unwelcome look into our future. A future in which her parents’ faces aren’t the last things she sees at night nor the first things she sees in the morning. I’m discovering I really don’t like not having her near. I just keep looking [...]

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Emmett is a big fan of dogs. It’s interesting to watch him approach them when they happen by, and to watch how he instinctively reaches out to pet them on the back. If the pooch happens to lie down, Emmett takes that as his cue to plop down on top of the dog for a [...]

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“They grow up so darn fast.” It’s going to be fun to someday look back on Ava’s “horse period.”

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I hope you’re able to recognize Leah without the mole.

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I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. In Memoriam A. H. H. by Alfred Tennyson

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For your consideration. Ava at her dance class dress rehearsal on Monday: And ECP giving me a smile on a walk we took yesterday while I was home with him: Crazy kids….

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There was no plan to get this shot annually, but now I’m thinking it might not be a bad idea. The 2010 version: And from 2009:

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It’s lilac season. But a B&W photo of lilacs? Wha…? I’m just that crazy, I guess.

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We went over to visit Kevin and Rachel in their room at Hotel Vetro yesterday. Nice place. And lots of big windows, which meant lots of diffuse, natural light just right for taking pictures of LMK.

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Had a really nice weekend, starting off with a dinner party for our friends Dawn and Ben. Then G.G. and Poom Poom rolled into town Saturday morning to do the Easter thing with us. The whole group took a walk to a nearby park yesterday afternoon, where we got some pictures I’m really fond of. [...]

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It’s like her artistic urges had been percolating all winter and only then were being released. Nothing like putting down some serious chalk to get you feeling back to normal.

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From a walk Ava and I took downtown and back this morning. I’m home with her today for the start of her spring break. It was just awesome to hold her hand and stroll down the street, talking about birds and flowers and what an amazing day it is. I could get used to this.

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*sigh*

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from de- + sperare to hope*: Photo: 2010 Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui * For those of you who — like my wife — are wondering why this is here, please refer to the comments on this post.

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Yes, Ava cut herself some new bangs this past weekend.

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