October photo update

First practice with scissors. Difficult enough to furrow her brow. Absorbing enough that she kept at it for twenty minutes.

A sunny morning on the playground with Desi's mom. Also perhaps the only day yet this fall that it was conceivably cool enough to wear the new sweatshirt Dad got her. Though night comes early, we're still in shorts and the trees are largely still green. I begin to suspect the fall season is a thing of the past in the mid-Atlantic. Where have all the red leaves gone, long time passing?

Another Sunday, another family baptism. This time it was Santiago's big day, and all the cousins were able to be together for the celebration. Edith now remains the only lost soul in the bunch.

A connoisseur of playgrounds, Santiago checked out this piece of climbing equipment for its viability as a lounge chair. Or as he put it, he was pretending to be Pappy.

Not to be mocked, Pappy took some hostages. (Note the dominance of the thin straight hair gene in the youngest generation.)

There are also some great pictures of Edith's class learning about mail, but I don't know how to capture them from the Adobe format in which they were sent to me and upload them here. Stay tuned...