ILP rolling photo quarantine 2

those cheeks!!!

Yay twins!

Baby with a sour face:
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omg im dying @ hipstamatic baby beauty

This was taken a couple of months ago, Giona was still recovering from surgery:

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surgery?

sylvie in the seemingly deserted city of san francisco
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omg watch out for aliens and/or transformers, sylvie!

Let's say we had our annus horribilis - he was diagnosed a rare syndrome, suffered several ischemic strokes that left him semi-paralyzed and underwent brain surgery twice.
Now he's miraculously recovering and, while there is still a lot to do, we hope things will be better in the future.
I guess I'm posting these photos only to celebrate the fact he's a tough kid and we somehow soldiered on.

ps Sunny - I'll check the Daffy Duck t-shirt!

yikes, so glad things are looking up, marco.

wow. thats some scary stuff. glad its all looking good so far. ilxor schwantz went though the same sort of thing a couple of years ago and as you can see above his sons look just great.

Yeah, Ben is doing great these days. Sorry to hear about your trials, Marco. Pretty much nothing heavier to deal with. Make sure you and your wife are talking/getting some counseling. I'm now in the midst of a divorce, and I'm pretty sure all the stress of the last few years contributed to the meltdown.

I'm really sorry to hear that, schwantz. Love to you and yours too, Marco.

Kids, eh?

Thanks. What a drag...

Grazie a tutti.
Right now, we're just enjoying a newfound sense of normality - there's still a long way to go but I must say we hopefully learned a lot.

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Glad things are looking up, Marco

From eleven days ago, Aidan meeting Molly for the first time

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3466/5833381123_d14712b4ef.jpg
Aidan is smitten by vickyp, on Flickr

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party dress 3 by vickyp, on Flickr

She's the spit of Aidan, very scary!

aw, congrats!

We went to a birthday pool party last weekend...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5234/5875911830_751f7ba53a.jpg
Owen by disbister, on Flickr

But before that, I took them out of preschool in Friday to go see Cars 2.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5075/5868030211_f784c75f2a.jpg
Ben at Cars 2 by disbister, on Flickr

cars 2! looks like he's in heaven.
here's sylvie gazing lovingly at a muffin
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Great picture!

yes! in the interest of credit where credit's due i should say that my wife is the one who takes most of these pics. learn how to make that muffin here on her food blog! http://www.two-tarts.com/2011/06/cherry-ricotta-muffins.html

awesome
those look delicious

It's been a wee while, so...

Ava getting the bumps (except it wasn't her birthday) in Brockwell Park...
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6146/5922491175_e0f0550514.jpg

The girls (as Jiji and Moominmamma) about to leave for said party...
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haha, flying kid! great pics.
here's sylvie looking very satisfied. a rarity these days!
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Dalton doing his best bear impression:
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gah!

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bike tumble aftermath:

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That popsicle looks enormous.

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one year old!

:D

So cute, na.

erm...n/a

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one year old!

Can't be. I barely even know you, but that went too fast.

a year already!?!! dang.

happy one year!
here's our almost two year old at a bike race
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Debated posting this, but it was too awesome not to:

Birthday Potty
http://pics.campl.us/f/c/c38661630f0ff50bad42574b11bba17a.jpg

Ha ha!

The girls getting wet a couple of weeks ago in The Rookery, Streatham...
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6149/5999395480_b4aa2e74d5.jpg

Ava, playing with her food on a trip to Merseyside, yesterday...
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6007/5995240346_0d6f57ab56.jpg

Lulu, excited about camping back in June (black and white film, 28mm lens)...
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6150/5944030099_e958159755.jpg

omg schwantz he is gonna hate you so much when he's older!
that pic is awesome.

jones girls stunning as usual.

That is some serious high school blackmail material!

Michael - the girls look great, and thinking back to Lulu baby pictures on ILX brings a tear to my eye...

And my ex said he looks like a Juggalo.

the littlest juggalo

Me and the boys, top of the world (well 3195 feet up) and very very wet

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Wow, Onimo!

Shortly after the Ava-and-peas photo above, she fell off a wall outside Lime Street station and bashed her face up. Along with the chicken pox scarring, she's adding a rugged element to those butter-wouldn't-melt features! She'd actually LIKE a Harry Potter scar at this point.

We went camping last weekend. A couple pics:

Ben:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6205/6028803865_dc565748db.jpg
Ben by disbister, on Flickr

Owen:
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Owen by disbister, on Flickr

Climbing a tree:
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Ben and Owen climb a tree by disbister, on Flickr

tree climbing! very fun.
sylvie and her mom meet a horse
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both horse and sylvie are similarly unimpressed with one another.