Uncle Mark loves science!

Juniper and Hazel are super lucky to have an uncle who will help out at a school science day. Chemical reactions, inflating balloons, awesome! (Since becoming a parent, I have been amazed by just how much mileage you can get out of baking soda + vinegar.)

This is the last of a bunch of photos I recently downloaded from my phone. I think Aaron may want the record to state that all of the mediocre quality photos are mine. We should soon be returning to our regularly scheduled programming of high quality photos.

Christmas Pageant 2013

Friendly beasts getting ready for the pageant.


I suppose it's better to post photos late than never at all...

 ...but 10 months later, I can't actually tell you what Hazel was. A Christmas camel?

Quotable kids

Looking at a telephone pole
Hazel: Why isn't it cooked?
Sally: What? I don't understand.
Hazel: But you can only get splinters from raw wood.


Juniper: Something is pondering me.


On being old enough to go from nursery care to Sunday School classes
Hazel: I'm thinking that there might be some celebrating in the big church because I'm done with the nursery.


Expressing concern about her very first spelling test
Juniper: And there are two four-letter words!
Aaron: Only two words? That doesn't sound bad.
J: No, there's lots of words, but only two of them have four letters.
A: What's one of the four-letter words?
J: Back.
A: How do you spell back?
J: B-A-C-K
A: See, you can spell four-letter words. What do the other words have, three letters?
J: Yeah, and two letters.
A: This sounds easy.
J (indignantly): Easy for you!! You can probably spell proboscis!!


Hazel (getting into a hot car): It smells like the sun!


Talking about some litter she just saw
Hazel: And one time, with Dad, we saw a bunch of those little papers that steal from poor people.
Sally: Lottery tickets?
Hazel: Yeah, that litter. There was a bunch of them. Those people weren't being very respective of the world.
(I think this one may say more about her parents than it does about Hazel.)

Family music time

From the archives

In our shared narrative about the children, Hazel never fell asleep in the car once she was past her youngest baby days. The evidence from my phone says otherwise.

In fact, we may have more photos of Hazel as a toddler sleeping in her car seat than we do of toddler Juniper asleep in the car. With Juniper, this was such an everyday experience that we saw no reason to document it. With Hazel, it's possible that we have photographic evidence of every single instance of toddler car sleeping.

Wizard or scientist?

Both!

Slug!

There are many ways Hazel is like her mama. This is one of them.