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It turns out that liquid latex body paint is painfully difficult to remove.

First Day of Senior Year, and a report from Philadephia

Jacob started his senior year at Half Moon Bay High today. No muss, no fuss. you can enbiggen (enlarge) the pix by clicking on them. Blogger seems to have gone to very small in line pictures.

And here's the news from Philadelphia:

From: Eleanor H.

Sent: Mon Aug 23 09:52:28 2010
Subject: Highlights from the weekend

Lily took her first steps on Saturday, and we moved to west philly on Sunday.

After getting into a standing position on her own, Lily takes a single
step towards something to grab onto, but she does this pretty often
and with much excitement. She can crawl really really fast, usually
towards an open door and her cruising is likewise speedy, if ungainly.

Jacob and I are incredibly lucky in our friends and family, who
knocked themselves out packing all day Saturday and moving all day
Sunday. Lily's room is unpacked, but we couldn't find the coffee
making supplies this morning.

Mira and Lily are making friends. After many rounds of stealing each
others pacifiers, Lily offered her pacifier to Mira who was prevented
from accepting it. Later, Mira expressed her affection by crawling
after Lily and trying to gnaw on her ankles and hindquarters.

[ed. note: Mira is Liliana's cousin. She and her parents are sharing the

house with Lily and hers.]

Alex stepped off the plane in Philadelphia at 11pm, though he was
scheduled to arrive from Hartford at 7pm. He and I will be unpacking
and babyproofing!

Cream Cheese!

Cream Cheese!, originally uploaded by AnnLasko.

Lily's first time feeding herself. She does not have a problem.

Cranky-pants eats cheerios

Cranky-pants eats cheerios, originally uploaded by AnnLasko.

She's not really that cranky, considering she's cutting 3 teeth at once.

9 months, new tricks

9 months, new tricks, originally uploaded by AnnLasko.

She's a doozy!

Babies in the Berkshires

This one of Ellie and Lily with Jacob's sister Elyse and her daughter Mira, reminds me so much of me and Lorraine when Ellie and Zena were babies.

A flea in his ear.

Actually it was a tick. I looked at Jacob over the breakfast table this morning, and there was a tick in his ear. People who know the game Bad Mojo, might remember that it all started with a roach that Drew Huffman got in his ear. Once, Drew wore a roach costume to a video game trade show... but that is another story.

Anyway, this was a tick, and it would not come out, and all the burnt matches I poked at it just made it wiggle it's little legs around. So, just as Drew had to do, we went to urgent care. The doctor was amazed. Jacob was the second patient of the day, and the second tick. I was inclined to assume a tick epidemic, but Young reminds me of the Poisson curve (which is bell-shaped, not fish-shaped) and the tendency of random data to be "clumpy" i.e. for random events to occur in proximity.