rock on and peace out.

kale can't wait to get his tongue on that giant germ ball.

holland & riley - a couple of speed demons.

enjoying the smith college campus center.

riley demos his double drum on wheels.

kale is not well pleased by jp's impending move to portland.

kale likes to be in the swing almost as much as riley likes to push the swing so that works out nicely.

chasing bubbles in the back yard.

lis learns a little something about racecars.

all of the spades enjoy a good book.

lis takes a mini break from caulking and painting our kitchen to hang out with kale.

no pics for now

our camera recently suffered a fatal accident and so there won't be any new pics for a while... and by a while we mean like a week or so.


rania katrina riley and kale

now that mommy works all day those evening snuggles are even sweeter.

when you're sick there's nothing like a nap in a cozy nest.

ah, the reward for all that hard scooting.

someone is practically crawling. for real.

early morning good-byes on mommy's first day of work.

kale thinks plush toys are for suckers. he'd rather scoot himself across the room to gnaw on riley's heavy, hard toys and their tiny choking hazard pieces.

a couple of bros just hanging out.

riley makes an excellent farmhand.

k & k and the awesome farm(ers).

visiting the viscious attack chickens (no joke - they look harmless but they are not.)

nothing beats a fresh country breeze on your tongue.

this weekend we drove to awesome farm to pick up our chickens, but first we had to feed the fish.

the kids give our new bike trailer two thumbs up. (not literally, obviously)

mama's little helper.

twins? you be the judge.

northampton has a sweet bike path and the family spade is taking full advantage.

kale doesn't want to look at the camera, he just wants to eat some pizza already.

it might have been katrina's birthday but riley got "the best present of ever".

it's not the riding mower but we still have fun cutting the grass.

happy birthday mommy!

today katrina is thirty-one-of-a-kind and kale is 4 months old.

brennan and riley made quite a train track.

toes in the mouth.

special craig and rye discover that a cardboard box really is the best toy.

david is a good sport and his legs make an excellent balance beam.

kale LOVES riley. for real.

our little drummer bee.

after a successful visit to the training wheel store, riley can ride his big kid bike.

forget breast milk, kale wants a beer.

dutifully watering our new tree.

no one gets a free ride when they come to vist. we expect you to work people.

nothing says labor day like a relax in the grass.

shark fishing. harder than it looks.

bella and harpo joined us for the ox pull which really was so much fun.

we went to the 3 county fair. riley thought the spinning dragons might be fun. turns out, not so much.

a good read with a great uncle. (great uncle teddy that is)

kale's first dip in the ocean, well in sea water anyway.

3/4 of the family spade do a little reading.

kale has a relax with mimi.

they don't call them rogue waves for nothing.