Dually

Around here, they call the extra big pickup trucks "duallies" - because they have a set of dual wheels on the back. It's pronounced like "doolies", which sounds kind of cute for a big, honkin' truck.

Paloma is now a dually too! She received her Australian Citizenship last week. I think it's a really beautiful certificate, and I'm very happy that she is officially an Aussie as well.

We still have to get a passport for her, so that we can go to Australia (Australian citizens need an Australian passport to enter). We can't do that from Albuquerque, so we will have to make a trip to a big city soon. Hmm... where shall we go? Washington? New York? San Francisco? Chicago? Hmmm....

On the day that she received her citizenship, she came home from daycare wearing these socks. Green and gold! [For our American readers, green and gold are Australia's colours at the Olympics and most major sporting events, even though our flag is blue, white and red.]

A Visit to Taos

Hello from Taos, Paloma and I (Auntie Cathy) decided to usurp this blog and give you an update! Tonight Ayesha and Howard are celebrating their Australia Wedding Anniversary. They have gone out to dinner and look very spiffy!
Paloma, who is working to become a great communicator, spent some time talking to Grandpoppy Jim. Paloma is telling him all about the trip to Taos including the big mountains they saw. You can see Grandpoppy is most impressed by this story.

Also Paloma talked to Grandmommy Claire. This was a long talk punctuated with moments of deep reflection (as seen in the picture below). Grandmommy Claire seemed to understand the depth and breadth of the conversation and didn't interrupt much.

Lastly Paloma had a visit with Auntie Cathy who promised Paloma that these conversations would be documented for posterity's sake. Satisfied that Cathy would, indeed as promised, note these meaningful affairs, Paloma decided a nap was in order.

The nap was an extraordinary one which took place in a Tupperware container with several blankets. Obviously life is good.

hats off to Paloma

Paloma has become quite famous at daycare for her different hats. The other day, a parent that we had never met before gave us two new hats because she had seen us carrying Paloma with a cute hat every day.

The other night, I grabbed a bunch of hats from Paloma's cupboard and had a little photo session. She seemed to enjoy the quick costume changes and the camera snapping away.

Today I present you with a gallery of photos of Paloma's hats!

Handmade hats

Hat by Becky Bixby

Hat by Helen Keenan

Hat by Aunt Shari

Hat by Cathy Osborn

Hat by Lorraine Giles

Hat by Libby Blohm

Gift hats

Thanks to neighbour Nathalia!

Thanks to Paloma's good friend Mia.

Thanks to random daycare mother

Random hats

Bear ears

Pom pom ears

Bunny ears

Daddypapa's hat!

Hat in action