Claire Elizabeth Arrives!

We are very happy to welcome Claire Elizabeth to our family. She was born Dec 4th and was a healthy 7 pounds 7 ounces.

Birthday Island Roses on Pirate Island

The kids had a joint birthday bash, Tess is shown here giving her Island Rose piñata the first bash.

Jake and seven of his pirate crew for his seventh big day.










He did a great job designing and painting his piñata too.










Tess a few days earlier broke out her cowboy boots and a raincoat to do some shopping with Sarah.

A few of the very important women in her life

We have been a little slow with posting new photos recently, but with so much going on and with the electricity going off so often we hope you will forgive us. Tess was asking where her photos were too, after a couple of postings of her brother, so here is what we came up with during a visit to Arizona last fall.

Jake wins a music award.

He treated us to a song about a drunken sailor at a school assembly this morning - An interesting choice, but he is quite a fan of the pirate genre. And I thought I'd post a picture of the new snakes and ladders games painted outside of his classroom, for a class parent I know in Manhattan at the moment who would love to see the product of so much of her efforts