helping

 

neighborhood skiing

See videos here

Rosemary's map of our neighborhood

Another Rosemary picture

Ava is still into dragons, dragon themes, and now architecture

dress up with a neighbor

baking bread

Dog in position under eating child, neglected dog face on

Before the snow. Ava went ice skating on a local marsh with some friends.Ava's jacket has pink.

pickles

local woods--a lot of trips to these in these photos, usually with neighbor kids

Dog is digging

Ava and her classmate working on their (scale!) model of the Chugach front range

lunches and tea parties with neighbor kids

Ava's robot built from a kiwi crate

Rosemary helped her dad butcher a deer. She learned what bone marrow is. She wanted to make a video about it for a friend who recently donated bone marrow for her brother.

Rosemary's small story

helping Daddy grind deer meat

 tea parties

skiing goofballs

in the hemlocks at one of our favorite local spots in the mountains

schoolwork

mom's parka

Mommy made a catnip-filled felt mouse

arboreal Ava