March of the Swivelheads

Kirsten and Caleb at the MSOE Train Show.


Kirsten and Sam ride the rails with Olin, Bell, and Aaron.

Olin and Sam watch themselves on a video monitor. Olin looks about 25 years old here; Sam, not so much.


Grampa Jim and Caleb watch the trains.


Sam and Grandma Cathy take a break.


Caleb studies up at the dentist's office.


Maybe its time for that all-toddler remake of The Marathon Man?

Caleb knows no fear.


Okay -- Caleb knows a little fear.


Caleb and Emmett.

Sam helps Ella Grace on the stairs.


An old mattress used as a trampoline: Renatta, Sam, Julien, Caleb, and Olin.

We turn our backs on winter.

The Kids Are Alright

Woody Guthrie's guitar killed fascism. Pete Seeger's banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender. Sam's birthday cake crushes crime.


Caleb's birthday cake busts buffers.


Sam rides the scooter at his birthday party at the Big Backyard in New Berlin, WI.


Caleb test drives a Big Wheel. Lynn and Fashionette talk in the background.


Uncle Tim speeds along Sam, narrowly missing Colin.


Lizzie is not having it.


Hannah at the ladder.


Cannon is coming atcha.

Olin and Bell.


Thea looks sly.


Checking out the goods.


Cannon surveys the loot, including the bicycles from Grandma Glenda and Grandpa Gary.


Caleb and Aidan compare rides.


Sam lays on the horn.


Cruising for chicks.


Isaac and Isabell blow the house down.


Doodie, with style.


Ayanna, Raelyn, and Catherine demonstrate the kind of genteel photograph you don't typically get in the household of twin boys.

Now We Are Four

Blowing out the candles.


Sam's present, and the frosting removed from his cupcake.


Caleb investigates a Thomas DVD while Grandma Cathy watches.


Fun with stickers.


At the garden train show at the Domes. Or, you know, the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

One hopes that is the guiding hand of brotherhood, and not the shoving hand of children that really should know better.

Sam runs through the jungle.

Operating the trains.