Duck Soup

A big thank-you to Uncle Seth for providing the pictures from our fun outting down to the river this weekend at Nana & Pa's house.

One of my favorite moments was helping Molly make "duck soup" with Nana (picture on the left is Molly stirring the "soup"). No ducks were harmed in the production of this soup, turns out she was making soup for the ducks. :)

Later we tromped through the floodplain, followed a dragonfly, and removed some french broom.

glider-licious

Thanks Nana & Pa for the lovely glider. Now we can keep a good eye on the neighborhood.

Lake Temescal

It's a hot hot weekend, so we invited the neighborhood kids for a dip in Lake Temescal. Here's some pictures of Zach acting as their fearless leader:

Don Castro Regional Preserve

OK, so I couldn't decide which pictures to post from our hike this morning...

(if you'd rather see all pictures as a slideshow, try http://picasaweb.google.com/szander/Tuchus02 )

Half a Year

Happy Six Months Birthday Clara!
You're doing just great. You drool like crazy, almost sit up, roll all over the place, and generally have a grand old time. And you've developed a nice mellow attitude most of the day, which is just wonderful.

Thanks Opa!

Thanks for the lovely visit Opa. The floor grate looks great, and the garage is grand! We're glad you're feeling better and we'll start thinking of the next project to get you to come out here.

April Showers

Molly took her first shower with Zach tonight. Until today she's professed fear and distrust of such things. Apparently, she had a change of heart since I hear she requested the shower on her own. I don't know the whole story, but I do know that they were getting ready for bed and the next thing I knew they were coming out of the shower and Molly was very very excited and happy. She even washed her hair!