Flying solo

Last week, Howard was out of town for work, surveying sfishes on the Delaware River. He caught a huge gar and had a pretty good time (apart from missing us, of course). 

I had my hands full with three girls (Semilla, Paloma and Imogen) but we all survived. I have found the key is to keep the meals simple and give each of them some attention. Including Semilla. 

You may have noticed that Paloma doesn't like to wear shoes. She loves to walk barefoot in our pokey backyard. But you may have also noticed that she's wearing one pink sock and one purple sock. 

Odd socks!

Apparently, there was a little communication problem before Howard left. He had a different understanding of what it means to do a load of washing for everyone. Paloma seemed to miss out.

Paloma's full laundry hamper. 

You may also wonder what Imogen is doing while I'm tossing the ball for Semilla and watching Paloma rake.

She's part of the fun too, but she's behind the camera. Kind of.

Along for the ride. 

She's got my back.

Up close and personal. 

Curiosity

At the Natural History Museum, there is a life-size replica of the Mars Rover, sitting in front of the Planetarium. In fact, when I first arrived at the Museum I was able to watch one of the research scientists planning the movements of the Rover. It was pretty amazing! The Rover is about the size of a VW Beetle and moves as fast as a Galapagos tortoise, so they plan for a week of movements.

As you may have heard, there is a new robot exploring Mars - Curiosity. It's pretty amazing to watch it crawling across the Martian landscape.



In the meantime, we have our own little explorer venturing out on a mission to discover new lands:

It looks like trouble (with a capital T)

Seriously, who is in charge around here??!??!?

Getting to know one another

Paloma and Imogen are kind of playing together...

Cute!

Just saying hello!

Same, same (only different)

Do you think Paloma and Imogen look similar? 

Paloma, Feb 2010

Imogen, Sept 2012

Davros, in the future

It's a striking similarity, isn't it?

So...

... this is what's been happening lately:

Imme has been a great sleeper and has been growing, and Paloma is always entertaining. 

I'm told that babies grow while they're sleeping. 

Sitting up like she's an old hat at it. 

Discussing the finer points of classical literature (Peter Rabbit). 

Mutual chuckles....

Imogen loves eating!
We have to feed her whenever we eat or else she gets stroppy. 

In other exciting news, we just celebrated our FOURTH wedding anniversary. I decided to really live it up and spent the day in bed with Imogen, getting over a minor daycare bug. We are finishing off our final bottle of wedding wine (which really should have been drunk a couple of years ago), and we still have plans to have a dinner sans children one night (thanks in advance to Leslie for babysitting!).

In other, other exciting news, Howard brought me the best gift ever today: a truckload of horse manure for our garden. Happy!

Quote of the day (from Howard): 

"Imme is so cute! She's such a cute baby!"

{pause}

"You know, I think she looks a lot like me."