the longest goodbye

we are homeless now. we've cleared out of new york, and we're just waiting for our stuff to get driven across the country before we move in. i've got a backlog of photos, though, from our final weeks in new york, and after receiving numerous complaints, i realize it's time to finally post.

last week we had a party for eve, amelia's nanny, her nanny friends and their charges. having eight kids ranging from 7 months to 6 years old in a small new york apartment is quite a challenge. though nothing is really more challenging than trying to get them all to look at the camera. this is amelia and one of her two best friends, kate. kate is little older than amelia, and thus, receives deferential treatment from our little bossy bear.
this here is bess, her other best friend, who is a couple months younger, and quite a bit smaller. as a result, she gets a whole lot of "No, Bessie, no!!!" from amelia. i wonder for how long she'll remember them. i guess i'll just keep showing her pictures of them, and hope for the best.
we also had a lovely easter brunch at clio's, but no photodocumentation sadly, other than what is posted on clio's blog (clioconfidential.blogspot.com). amelia has been surprisingly unfazed by the big changes--despite our concerns, she was totally blase when the movers cleared out the apartment. she walked around the boxes saying, "no more books, no more books." but not like she was upset, more like she was just commenting on fact that the books were gone.

final portrait in front of our old new york apartment:final hours at the airport with poppa: