Tannie and Anner are married!

Well, the wedding of the century was a smashing success, at least from my point of view. The kids were happy to get all dressed up, and had a lot of fun doing their job. Before the wedding starts, Koleman shows Annie that he has a fancy tie.

Look at the beautiful bride!

Kelson (properly dressed, with hardly any marks on his face) liked to spend time with Signe. She's a little old for him now, but when he's 140, she'd only be 162!

Aren't they adorable?

What a handsome pair of men!

This was Kelson's signal that he was done taking pictures. He wasn't screaming or crying, he just shut down. They had pretty much finished taking pictures at that point anyway, so his timing wasn't all that bad.

When we got out Kelson's wedding outfit that afternoon, he said, "I like that!" And he wanted to wear the hat almost the whole time.

Eli, of course, was a ham.

And he tried to get in good with the bride.

Milena was impressed by Annie's flowers.

Ooooo, pretty!

Here is the happy couple, enjoying the last few remaining minutes of happiness in their life, er ... I mean, basking in the coming glory of wedded bliss. Yeah, that's it.

And now the wedding is over! Making sure the kids got up and down the aisle didn't allow any chance to take pictures. Oh well. They did a great job. Koleman carried the basket and walked with Eli, while Milena and Kelson trailed behind. Even though Milena and Kelson never took more flowers from the basket, they were passing flowers out all the way down the aisle. I think the appropiate term is "redistribution." Just because a kid handed you a flower didn't mean you were going to get to keep it. They were cute and chaotic.

Here is Milena, happy to be at the reception.

After a long day of wedding stuff, it's good to just relax with a bowl of ice cream.

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Sorry Annie!

On the bright side, he does have three days for it to heal up!

How was I supposed to know that he would bring a chair over to the wall so he could play with a clock on his wall, causing it to fall down and bonk him on the nose? Kids think of the darndest things.

Even though his nose is red, he's happy. That's a good sign, right?

He even wanted me to take a picture of his foot. I'm sure that's a good sign.

Can you tell who just woke up from a nap? (note that his nose is not red)

Pictures - Nothing Special

If there's one basic truth to life, it's this - you can never have too much wooden train track.

Last week Milena was at Dora the Explorer camp. On the last day they put on a little show, so we went to the community center gym to watch. Kelson is more comfortable behind bars, apparently.

Here is Milena with all of her friends. And here is a video of Milena singing one of the songs.

Kelson Looking Cute (and a test)

In a previous post I mentioned that Kelson would not put on his cute wedding outfit. A number of people have asked if he is still upset about it. The good news is that I think I got him to like his clothes. I took them out for him to wear, and he started crying and yelling, "I don't like that! I don't want that!" Then I said, "If you let me put them on you, I'll give you chocolate."

He said, "OK."

Now, apparently, he likes the clothes. Here he is, all dressed up.

And proof that he actually was happy. OK now the test. If I did it right, here is a video of Eli doing somersaults. It's about 4.7 MB, so click at hour own risk, depending upon your connection speed.

Before and After

Here is your standard issue Magnetix ball, about half an inch in diameter. It's nice and shiny, and a beautiful thing to behold.

Now, here is what one of those balls looks like after a week in the digestive system of a two year old. Not nearly so pretty.

A side by side comparison shows the disparity between the two balls. Hopefully the fact that the digested ball has an interesting story to tell will prevent it from being picked on by the shiny, "cool", balls. If nothing else, I'm sure it learned a valuable lesson.