wheeeee.

nama and riley share a little nosh at the culinary institute.

mommy is the best at splinter surgery.

it's important to keep the porch dust free. (sometimes he vacuums the driveway.)

riley just takes a littleeeel off the top.

and she finished off the day with some tandem-no-hands seesawing.

next on the agenda was throwing rocks in the river.

nama's first grandmotherly duty was to come to riley's swim class and take pictures.

lake champlain’s rocky shore is heaven for our little drummer.

you wouldn't believe the near hysteria inspired by this tiniest of trains.

checking out some sturgeon while we wait for nama's plane to arrive

mmmmmm, watermelon.

colby and rye take a ride on the 'ole rope swing.

it's almost like we never left san francisco.

with just a little help riley can jump 20 or 30 times his body length. amazing.

riley asks colby for some assistance getting "ina water".

we all agree that the floating bridge is a local swimming hole of pure delight.

what's cuter than baby touchies?

"tie-pee (calliope) is drinking milk from da nipple!"

special craig and rye spy some little numbers.

but his real goal was to share the stage with uncle hubie (‘cousin hubie’ to his fans).

then he wanted to move his chair up with the big kids...

at first, riley was content to sit with mama and aunt corrina...

baby calliope is fierce.

riley wants to be sure he can see the performers at kidstock '07. calliope wants to be sure she's doing whatever riley's doing.

it takes a lot of focus to build a quality sand castle.

tide pool of delight.

special craig joins rye for a little sunning on the beach.

mommy had to do a lot of water fetching since riley didn't want to get much closer than this to the shore.

riley felt more comfortable at the ocean on days the waves weren't "splashing and crashing".

the first robin's egg of spring.

"your name is? your name is?" asks riley before volunteering "my name is riley."

kate, riley and Katrina keep tabs on the locavore table at yesterday's celebration of local chicken.

who doesn't love to do a little grilling?

this is riley's 'smile for the camera' smile. nice.

"no. no wanna group picture!"

jules and rye receive their lobster dinner with some trepidation.

gram looks on while riley does a little modeling for dan & whit's.

looks like mommy has a real monkey on her back.

assorted moges and spades and even one bernstein kick it on the beach in front of patches.

"we sat on da tractor, and turned on da tractor, and did a little mowing."

gram and riley test out the new porch swing.

doing some digging, digging for worms.