ILP rolling photo quarantine 2

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Went to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk with the boys...

Ben:
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Ben :) by disbister, on Flickr

Owen:
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Owen takes on a cone by disbister, on Flickr

Owen and Ben:
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li'l crimefighter

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Lil Travolta more like it.

Though much much cuter obv

I took a few pictures I am quite proud of. Went camping all weekend with my friends, great chance to really bond with their 22 month old, who has been why around me in the past despite babysitting her & meeting her many times:

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Aw, some wonderful ones recently!

Lulu in Hyde Park last weekend:
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Meeting Eleanor Rigby in Liverpool:
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Ava trying to slick her hair back, post-bath:
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Jesus that last one looks like a Sonic Youth album cover or something!

From July - early morning check-ins not popular

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Haah! Oh my god look at them, they're like weary pilgrims en route to...wherever pilgrims go.

awwwwwwww

that last MJ picture - I can see her 25 year old face clearly in that shot - so striking!
I want to meet Eleanor Rigby :(

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kitten is all "WTF"

That kitten has the worst gas of any animal I've ever owned, and with all respect to the dead, keep in mind that we were living with an elderly three-legged Great Dane with cancer just a few months ago.

so in your family everyone blames the kitten, is what I'm hearing

We used to blame the dog (R.I.P.), but this…. this is something that no other mammal should be able to create.

"D'aw, look at the little kitty…. aw, she's thinks there's a mouse in the pillow! OH the spotty belly, rub the spotty belly!" *pop* "… DEAR GOD."

lol

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so big!

those are some cuuuuute kids, NV! i love the expression on your son's face in the first one.

happy/wry

He always looks like that afaict! I think it's the glasses falling (adorably) halfway down his nose all the time. His whole look will be ruined if he ever buys his glasses properly fitted.

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A couple of weeks ago in Broadstairs, just before the Olympics opening ceremony, a major life event...

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possible we may have inadvertently stolen sylvie's hair style from michael jones' kids. anyway, she's almost three! and this was her first real haircut.

Adorable!

Another first day of school. They're growing up so fast.

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That's 2011 on the left. That's about three hours ago on the right.

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Here's august at 4 months old!
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Lulu, helping build a bridge across a dried-up stream in rural East Sussex...

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First day back at school - year 1 and year 3 respectively...

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omg @ august sitting up like that!

L -

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omg where did that baby go and who is this kid?!

the baby is his younger brother! it's all happenin' man!!

lol no, I know you have two. He just looks so grown up all of a sudden.

Oh, lovely!

(Who got themselves a 7D and 17-55/2.8? I shot a wedding with that lens, it's ace!)

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more bike hijinks. she loves that bike.

great pic, looking like a pretty tuff bike gang there

(lurking here. oh hi!)

BMX Bandits ftw!

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Haha Mike I wish. I was shooting photos of Carnival and I had to take that camera home from work the previous Friday so that I'd have it on the day. I had no idea how HEAVY those cameras are. But I wish I'd had the foresight to take a few more, uh.. you know, TEST shots.

xp lol classsssic movie

Love that bike photo! Striders are pretty awesome, L had one until a couple of weeks ago when he graduated to a pedal bike. My only beef with them is that the fork isn't welded to the tube it sits in, and frankly I have no idea what was holding it in place but eventually L's fork just basically fell out and I had to put a nut and bolt through the hole that's helpfully provided.. but it needs tightening every week or so, otherwise the steering gets wobbly.

yeah we have to tighten sylvie's regularly. but she is crazy about it and is surprisingly good at riding -- surprisingly because she's kind of clumsy when it comes to a lot of other things.

bike pic is great- there are many great ones on the thread.

i just bought a superzoom and am trying to learn how to take pictures. it's been a good distraction while i recover from surgery, but the surgery was on my hand, which makes manipulation of the camera hard.

Love the bike pic! After using the Striders, my boys learned how to ride real bikes, sans training wheels, in about 5 minutes (when they turned 4!).

same here, first kid used likeabike from 2-3, when i put him on the bike i just got him to coast down a gentle hill and experiment w pedaling.

second kid rejected likeabike in favor of training wheels, took her way longer, like an extra season.

yeah hard to tell how long she'll be on the strider and how the transition to a real bike will go ... her balance is pretty much all there, guess it's just figuring out how to pedal.

OMG, August's sitting up already?!

A whizzed around on his balance bike but when we bought him a pedal bike he was a teeny bit too small for it and it put him off it for ages. When he finally agreed to have a go on it he was off and away after about 5 mins of slowly trying it out.

I have no idea where my babies went

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A won't let me cut his hair but he HATES getting it washed and refuses to brush it, fun times at bathtime in our house

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