our prayer

Here is the prayer we say every Thanksgiving. This poem began as just a recitation of the e.e. cummings poem "i thankyou god for most this amazing", with our own personal little tweaks here and there. But after saying it at bedtime for years it has grown into the perfect thanksgiving prayer. Mac usually says it as she's responsible for most of the add-ons. (You'll see what I mean.) Emmett has a few lines in there also, involving circus people...
Anyway, this poem pretty much sums it up for me. Love to all of you out there!!
Happy (early)Thanksgiving

I thankyou universe for most this amazing day
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky
and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes
which is love.
Bless grandmas
and grandpas
and aunts
and uncles
and cousins
and brothers
and sisters
and mamas and papas
and babysitters
and circus people
and everyone we love
and may they be happy and healthy
and have love in their lives
and heartsight.

thankful, thankful, thankful

mac, 3 years old

an emmett blast from the past

This is one of my favorite pictures of
Emmett.
He loves hiking and using papa's camelback.
And he's so darn cute in his tie dyed socks.
This is just one of the many reasons I am thankful!!

holiday monday!

So this is what we do with a day off...
first pool time with friends, then a little partially naked computer time, then mom makes us do slave labor at the studio. Meanwhile the life of a baby remains the same..."hold me or else!!"

frickin' cute

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To those of you who want to "Comment" but haven't been able to because you don't have a blog of your own... well, now you can!! And please do.

Nana Rocks!

first smiles

a day at the park

nothing like kids in nature...do you like our shadow-selves?

jog-a-thon

HERE IS EMMETT AND A FRIEND FROM FIRST GRADE .... I have never seen kids run like this. 45 minutes straight! I thought they'd run maybe 10 laps but Emmett ran 35 and Benj ran even more. So fun! Smiling the whole way, wind blowing in their hair, the grownups passing out orange slices and squirting them with water bottles.
THIS IS EMMETTS TRUE BLUE FRIEND BENJAMIN WHO RUNS LIKE LIGHTNING....Unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries before the fourth graders started running so I missed getting pictures of Mac and all her friends. It seemed like they enjoyed it too although the laps were much longer. There were even a bunch of parents and teachers running. Too bad I was holding Silas...poor me ...everyone knows how much I love to jog. (ha).

SILAS LOYAL DREYER, uncovered

go dems!!

We are all celebrating!










Baby with Pear

silas is exactly four weeks old !

I can't believe it has been 4 weeks already. Having a baby around creates this kind of magic in the house. Everyone just seems to pay closer attention to eachother.
It's never quiet around here but there is a definite sense of peace.

Mac wanted me to mention her new hat. ("Mama, its a tam!") We found it in a box in the back of the stinky closet. Papa gave it to Mac because he knows his kid. She has worn it every waking and sleeping moment ever since.

P. S. I can't get the underlining to go away. Lauren and Matt are laughing right now.
Hey, it's gone. WTF.

sunday morning bonding

"Hi family members and friends far and wide!
I am Emmett and this is my little brother Silas!"

friday night...

...was great! We were all here together, playing piano, listening to music, rocking out and rocking in...the rocking chair that is.! Emmett took some video and pictures (which is why he's not in any) and learned his first christmas carol--jingle bells--on the piano. Matt did a lot of hanging out with Mac in her room listening to tween pop (oy!) and making lanyards (the latest version of the friendship bracelet). Everyone has to return to work and reality this weekend. Too bad because we are all really good at being home together.

i couldn't help myself...more halloween pics

halloween morning before school

they're multiplying

the geisha, the ninja, the hedgehog (screaming)

this is just a test

This is annies first attempt at doing this blogging bit
and I know its supposed to be all easy and no big
deal but this is BIG !
By the way, heres Mac Emmett and Silas this morning
before school.
(I did it!!)

Costumes and sugar! Yeah!

We had the whole gang at the preschool Halloween party. Included were two Shadow Ninjas (red and blue), two Dementors, a Geisha and Cleopatra, Raven and a wee little Robin. After $60 worth of cupcakes, nachos, candy, lollipops, cookies, popcorn hands, sickly sweet punch of unknown but surely artificially flavored origin, it was hard to get the kids to stand still for pictures.