Happy Birthday Finley!

How quickly the last year has flown!!! In fact, it's flown by so fast it has taken me 3 weeks to post your "First Year in Review"!

July 19, 2008--you entered the world. You gave us a bit of a scare with your purplish color but you quickly proved that you were perfect in every way.


Your big sister loved to "snuggle" with you. And you smiled through it all (well most of it).


There was a trip to MN to visit friends and family.


You grew out of lots of things very quickly! (including bathtubs)


There was lots of "love".


And lots of dreams!


You were a willing participant in all of our weird antics, whether it was dress up or your parents eating you!





Sometimes you got fed up.


And sometimes you gave up.


You are showing us the world according to Fin.


But here and there you need a little help.


Happy Birthday Finley Maxine!


I hope you are having as good a time as we are!

The Good Life

i realize that
to move forward with the blog
i have to stop trying to catch up
and just sit
down
and write something

astounding.


anyway
there are something like 200 pictures on our camera.
they seem to document the last cold morning of spring
and the glorious mess of heat
and sticky
sunblock
melted
ice
cream
sweat
and
watermelon
mayhem
that is
summer

i will post a fraction of them

and hope they entertain...




Summer is here...




















Here are 3 photos Maya took
definitely a series...

A Fairy tale...

once upon a time there was a pair of princesses
who went for a walk
to the park
it was summer
one pushed the other
it was glorious

they laughed
and smiled
and played on the swings

they had new shoes

glory.





next up
the last day i remember
wearing a
coat on a
trip to the park
or being concerned
about the warmth of
either daughter

check out
Finley's
delicate fingers
holding on
to the
swing

and the
elegant curve of
her profile

you can tell
i love it
there are about a billion photos of it

check out
Maya
Her beautiful look of intense concentration
she is so playful
and so serious
so dynamic

i threw in a shot of
doctor director
because it is such a great shot of her
she looks amazing
and
you can see where
Maya & Fin
get that beautiful look of
intense concentration


one saturday morning
we stopped to watch a train
i was trying to guess
which one of these two girls
was gonna hop it first...

we all agreed...
trains are pretty cool.
























we've made a little progress on the deck

and we got
a pool

we are hoping the pool will be enough of a distraction
that we can make a
lot more progress on the deck...