04.22.13 (Monday late morning) - Around.





04.20.13 (Saturday night) - Dog walk.





04.19.13 (Friday afternoon) - Police.



























04.16.13 (Tuesday) - Kid art (F on top, then P, then T). The kids are all obsessed with Menchie's lately.

04.17.13 (Tuesday evening) - Walking home from martial arts.



04.16.13 (Tuesday afternoon) - Every spring I end up buying a ton of bubble makers. And then they all break. And summer comes. And we forget about bubbles. And then . . . another spring.



04.13.13 (Saturday night) - Sometimes you have a great party and get really really drunk. Everything becomes a blur. Then the next day you pick up your camera and it is full of mustaches.







04.12.13 (Friday night) - Meandering.





04.12.13 (Friday afternoon) - The Hirshhorn with T.







04.11.13 (Thursday night) - Hains Point Cherry Blossoms. Perfection.

"If stages of life are artifacts, parenthood seems, at first, different. There have always been parents, and parents have always been besotted by their children, awestruck by their impossible beauty, dopey high jinks, and strange little minds. But the word 'parenthood' dates only to the middle of the nineteenth century, and the notion that parenthood is a distinct stage of life, shared by men and women is, historically in its infancy. An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help raise your siblings, have the first of your own half dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before you youngest has left home."

- Jill Lepore, The Mansion of Happiness

"Once it was believed that the very physical fact of parenthood brought with it an instinctive wisdom that enabled one to rear children wisely and well. Parents knew best. Today fathers and mothers are unwilling to struggle under such a load of self-imposed omniscience. Even if they were, the facts would be against them. For in this country various studies made in the last ten years present incontrovertible data to prove that devoted but unenlightened parenthood is a dangerous factor in the lives of children."

- Parents' Magazine, 1930

04.10.13 (Wednesday night) - Superman.





04.10.13 (Wednesday afternoon) - Tantrum.



04.09.13 (Tuesday night) - "Painting" the deck, T can spend hours this way. HOURS.





04.09.13 (Tuesday morning Part II) - Porch.





04.09.13 (Tuesday morning) - Morning.





04.08.13 (Monday morning) - Best friends.



04.07.13 (Sunday afternoon) - Superman in cowboy boots at the playground. Wow, just writing that sentence sounded crazy enough.







04.04.13 (Thursday afternoon) - Wedding photos. Personally, I think they are both WAY to young for such a big commitment. But then again, there's the baby to consider . . . T felt nervous about "not being fancy enough" so he requested that we all imagine more elegant clothing.





04.04.13 (Thursday morning) - Superheros and stuffed animals.





04.03.13 (Wednesday afternoon) - Swordfight.





04.01.13 (Monday morning) - Pink sheet is still a member of our family. Despite the smell. Oh the smell.