first day of kindergarten

all ready to go:there:
gaby celebrating the new reality of having a few hours without anyone snatching his toys, pig piling him, or otherwise torturing him:

mohawk

picture by amelia:another view of the gravity defying wonder that is gaby's hair:

mini summer vacation

we didn't really get to go away for the summer, so we decided to go to monterey/carmel for a long weekend. here's amelia swinging on a rope swing, wearing her new favorite dress, from nancy yiyi who brought it all the way back from her real vacation to provence.

but who needs to go to provence to see lavender fields?

gaby sneaking in the picture:

here's the most amazing thing of all--here's how we look now:

here's how we looked the last time we went to monterey in october of last year: