3.17.2010

March of the Swivelheads

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Kirsten and Caleb at the MSOE Train Show.

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

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

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Grampa Jim and Caleb watch the trains.

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Sam and Grandma Cathy take a break.

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Caleb studies up at the dentist's office.

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

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Caleb knows no fear.

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Okay -- Caleb knows a little fear.

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Caleb and Emmett.

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Sam helps Ella Grace on the stairs.

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

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We turn our backs on winter.

3.01.2010

The Kids Are Alright

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

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Caleb's birthday cake busts buffers.

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

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

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Uncle Tim speeds along Sam, narrowly missing Colin.

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Lizzie is not having it.

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Hannah at the ladder.

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Cannon is coming atcha.

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Olin and Bell.

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Thea looks sly.

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Checking out the goods.

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

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Caleb and Aidan compare rides.

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Sam lays on the horn.

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Cruising for chicks.

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Isaac and Isabell blow the house down.

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Doodie, with style.

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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

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Blowing out the candles.

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

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Caleb investigates a Thomas DVD while Grandma Cathy watches.

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Fun with stickers.

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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.

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

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Sam runs through the jungle.

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Operating the trains.