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calliope was kind enough to give up her bed during our visit. though, as you can see, there would have been more than enough room for her to join them.

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and here we are ruining their young lives by forcing them to walk across the manhattan bridge.

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take a close look at calliope's plate and now compare that to riley's. maybe when we live in a city again he'll like dim sum. also kale is under the table at this point eating the plain rice we brought him. sigh.

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golden unicorn dim sum. the adventure begins...

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maybe you thought there weren't giant cliffs to scale in central park. well you were wrong.

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the kids have been bugging me for years to visit this statue of balto 'the bravest dog ever', hubie and dean remain unimpressed.

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everyone is very busy when it's time to say goodby.

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fun with the beautiful bling lena brought for everyone.

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we found a savi and a lena nightstar at the park, pretty much our lucky day.

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the kids are unhappy about posing for this picture, hubie is unhappy about how i framed the shot and me, well i'm just glad not to be in northampton with all that snow.

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where you can sword fight on the sidewalk and wear magenta sweatpants in public.

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we returned from our amazing miami idyll to this b.s. so we promptly repacked our bags and headed to new york.

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sometimes you just need to have a little lie-down by the baggage claim.

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serious air over wave action.

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'no, but listen, mom, you have to come in the water with us.' you can totally see that that's what he's saying, right?

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sweet sassy molassy i love these two.

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snacks at the farmers market.

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so i'm just going to put them both in and call it done. also it was spring break and there were literally hundreds of thousands of people on the beach and in the water, despite what it looks like in these photos.

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i can't decide which of these 'rye and craig in the ocean' shots i like better...

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dean does a little coconut surgery.

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just a bunch of good looking city slickers enjoying the best of south florida.

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do you see the alligator across the canal. because it's there, people, it is there.

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get excited because we are about to visit the everglades!

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breakfast on the porch with calvin and hobbs.

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havin' a chat, knittin' some things.

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everyone enjoys a ride on the state of the art seesaw.

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that craig is a good sport alright.

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having a pretty much awesome time in the cell phone lot waiting for special craig to land.

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heading to the park with jeri. and yes riley tucked his shirt in to his shorts because he is that hilarious.

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dave keeps a watchful eye on all those vintage star wars toys.

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the grandspecial's pool is only 73 degrees right now so this is about as long as his swim lasted.

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what's this? drawing comic characters in the sun by the pool in march, why we must be in miami now.

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pre-dawn airport reading is not a bad kind of reading.

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fancy hair.

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art outing.

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snaggletooth sculptor.

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last summer kale couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with an elephant. suddenly he's got his eye on the ball and he can't stop knocking them out of the park.

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mama and rye 'get down' while kale actually gets down. (there was awesome music playing at the barn when we went to pick up our winter share and you know how we like a family dance party)

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not everybody gets to tap maple trees as part of their preschool experience.

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manu gave the kids a cookbook last summer when she visited and suddenly riley is obsessed with making all the recipes with as little adult help as possible. so thank you, manu!

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hard at work on their chinese calligraphy. i'm pretty sure kale is writing smiling dragon.

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i had to quick snap this photo before they started singing because the second the music starts those sheets go up in front of their faces and it's just a sea of white squares.