To all you mothers out there...

We celebrated here with breakfast in bed for the Moms.  Lots of summer clothes for Mom as picked by Evy.  Flowers, seashells, and drawings for the Madre.  Then a trip to the beach, followed by dinner at this new burger joint down in South Beach.   Good day.

Here's what else we been up to:

Playing Happy Princess with Gardner and Mary Grace

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Playing sad princess all by ourself:

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Going to polo matches:

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Learning that life presents us with many fashion choices:

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Going for lots of swims:

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Going to school:

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Dressing ourselves:

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Two more of JoJo who got underrepped this time: 

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Kids getting cool at breakfast...

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Kids hiding from the Swine Flu...

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You provide the music.  We provide the groove...

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Sorry you've gotta crane your neck to check this one out, but it's worth craning...

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The kid has been riding solo for about six months now...it's extended his range enormously...with both kids on their scooters, we can cover a mile to a mile and a half on weekend adventures.  You should see the reaction the kid gets from folks when he is really moving, and don't let this video fool you...he can really move.  He pulled this out of the neighbors yard and has been teaching himself to ride for the last month or so...we'll get the kid a half pipe for his 2nd birthday...

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Big holiday--lots of fun--lots more pics

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Rare shot of Mom and Dad without kids....

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Even rarer shot of Carrie on scooter....

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A significantly more common sighting...

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Kings of the Road...

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Evy getting all pensive while taking a break...

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JoJo argues that the examined life is not worth living...

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Wanted Man...

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With his pops...(look at him tear into those collards!)

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With his Moms...

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Next installment...video!

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Evy (and to a lesser extent JoJo) is wild for Easter (And Halloween and Christmas and Arbor Day for that matter).   This made the Easter Weekend insane and exhausting and beautiful.  It also yielded lots and lots of cool pics.  Dig it!

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Evy likes getting ready for holidays as much as the holiday itself...here she is going steadily more insane w/preparation fever...

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The thing to note about the following picture is that it was taken on Thursday.  Already E was in bunny shirt and reading and re-reading Easter cards from her granparents....

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Boy JoJo don't need no excuse to party...

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The kid is always ready to drop trou and dance...

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If I would've known it was that kind of party I wouldn't have...

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Here's the picture Evy drew for the big bunny...we were impressed....(she's still working on jojo's name, but she's got hers pretty well down...

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The first of two egg hunts....

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Catching their breath and packing away the sugar...

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I'll save the rest for a second post...Tired yet?

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Here's what we've been up to.  What's new with you?

Beach Birthday--Evy and JoJo's pal Alba turns dos--

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Yes, JoJo did get naked--it was that kind of party....

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Nanna and Pop-Pop came to visit!!

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Pop-Pop took the boy swimming...

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The boy likes to swim...

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Having witnessed Pop-Pops toss, Evy stuck w/her Moms....

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Joe Eddie apres pool, and super cool...

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All dressed up and plenty of places to go...

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Solo JoJo...

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Carrie and Evy...(Evy has decided she will no longer cooperate w/photographers but her Moms is so pretty that i threw this in here anyway)

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Dad scores a kiss from the girl, as the boy asks him to remove the silly hat...

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Twenty five million bucks and two years of work results in a new park at South Pointe.  We dig it so much we're moving down there while the house gets fixed....Evy w/her amigas....

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Dad and JoJo, having rolled down the hill...

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Dad and JoJo having climbed it again....

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Mom and kids at the beach...

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Same thing w/Dad

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Evy solo with her most excellent creation...

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Joe Eddie back at the ranch...

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His big sister hard at work...

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And that's the way it is....March 2009....

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The rule down here is: No ninos in mi casa.

We don't live in Miami for nothing.

The kids spend a lot of time kicked outta the house.

Here's Joe-Joe demonstrating some very impressive scootering skills.

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Here's Evy with her tea party spread:

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Here's Evy with Scooter and Frog:

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Here's a performance by the 43rd Street Shangri-Las

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Of course, once you put your kids out on the street you expose them to the dangers of street life...(notice the Hanna Montana guitar)

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One Saturday a month they do a little Arts programming downtown...we try to expose the savages to some refinement now and then...

A couple Saturdays ago Evy and I went on a father/daughter field trip. 

For Evy, of course, face painting is the world's highest art form...

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Followed closely by the disco train....

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Here's what happens these days if you go somewhere without Se-Se boy...

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And then, unwilling to play segundo, all his life...Cool Jed opts for a life on the road...

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The problem w. living down here is that we gotta log lots of miles to see our kin...

So..last week we were back in Panhandle...everybody had a swell time...and then we all got sick...and we are just now recovering....

J. Eddie and his Great Uncle Jim developing a little beachfront....

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Joe-Joe and his cousin Pelham...men amongst boys....

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Evy at the wheel of the family's beach cruiser...

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J and E waiting to cross 30-A

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E and C outside Seagrove general stores where the grouper sandwiches rock....

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Dad with kids...(one of them is screaming...one of them is always screaming....)

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Walk in the woods....

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