Thankful

Buster: You know what I'm thankful for?
What?
Space and money. And the American flag and stores.
Why those things? Why are you thankful for space?
Because space is everything. It's how there's the earth for us to live on.
OK. Why money?
Well, you start out with a little bit, and next thing you know, you're rich.
And why the American flag?
I just like those colors, I think they're really pretty, and also it's the flag of our country.
And stores?
Wel, that's where we take our money and get things, and so that's how we have things like toys or books or clothes.

Ocean Beach

New haircut.

Dad, c'mere, look at this! Oh, wait. Never mind. I think it's ugly. (Dad liked it.)

[Yelled] I see you way over there trying to take my picture!

Windmill.

Speed. You can't tell because of a fast shutter but he's actually zooming past the camera, trying to foil Dad's attempt to get ready and take a picture. Heh. Dad's still got a move or two.
10/12/08

Meow

10/11?/08

Daisy's new "car seat"

10/11?/08

Dad at work

Writing a thumb-sucker, of course.
10/10?/08

Concert

Dad plays the 6-string while Buster and Daisy sing -- not the same song -- and play their "guitars," which look suspiciously like stuffed animals. This is a historic photo, the first time the King Teen has ever been the most accomplished musician onstage.

Publicity shot. Perhaps we should have moved the box.
10/1?/08

Pony

10/4?/08

Space Ninja recruit

Orders, sir?
10/11/08

Costumes: First look

Ninja

Kitty
10/4/08

Buster's space ship

On the launch pad

Buster shows Daisy the controls
10/4/08

Grandma and Grandpa

on Line 1.
9/28/08

Boots

9/27/08

Space ninja

En garde!

At ease
9/27/08

Daisy cat

9/26/08

Ready

9/21/08

Boswick the clown

He's funny!

Really funny!

Daisy gets in on the act.

That's funny too!

I'm back in the audiene now and ... it's funny!

Boswick balances a ladder on his face.

Crash.

Dolores Park, 9/20/08

Jaded youth

9/19/08

Madeline

9/13/08

Whatever this is

I'm playing with it.

9/7/08

New bikes!

Whoa, lookout back there, Daisy.

Whoa.

Let's try this way for a while.

You can ride these things anywhere. Almost anywhere.

Only crash of the day.

9/1/08

Election worker tampers with voting booth!

11/4/08>

Election Day

Mommy, can I come with you to America?

-- Daisy, to Jane, who had been talking about voting.

We explained that we don't have to leave San Francisco to vote.

Whatever's happening here

it's probably not real good for Daisy.

8/30

Lisa Loeb?

Our 3 kids

Buster, Daisy and Piggie.

Daisy's birthday

Ready for cake.

Presents. Miles and Buster helping out.

Piñata. The hockey stick is a family tradition.

Buster takes a whack. What form!

After-party BBQ. On the menu: Olive the Other Reindeer and some green shark.

Breakfast

Making Grandma's tea

This is a very funny thing that's happening right here.

Aaaaaand we're over it.

The right profile.

The left profile.

The kid who wouldn't laugh at anything

Who had the best Halloween costume at your school today?
Buster: There's this guy, and you can't make him laugh at anything. He had a ninja costume, and that was the best one.
He never laughs at anything?
Well, you can't make him laugh.
I'll be I could make him laugh.
No.
I'll bet I could.
How would you?
I'd tell him a joke.
What joke would you tell?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Butt.
Butt who?
Buttsy McButtbutt.

Don't know if it would work on that kid, but Buster and Daisy have been laughing for two days, and Dad just stopped.

Halloween card

Kindergarten must be taking. In the last few days, Buster has been spontaneously spelling things. He asks for almost no help. He just sits down and figures out what letters to use by listening to the sound of the word. The only question he asked in the making of this card was, "What letter sounds like 'uh'?"

Front

"Welcome to space heroes Halloween space card." Note the false start, crossed out with black marker. Because it's so hard to find a blank piece of paper in our house. We only have about 10 packages of it.

I think the space man in the circle is Buster. The four blue things are the name patches the four of us wear on our space suits.

Back

I think that's our rocket. It's some rocket, anyway.

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The inside is a message to Mom about something exciting that Dad bought for dinner: "Dear Jane, Guess what. King bought toasted ravioli. Love, Buster." The little drawing is the four pieces of toasted ravioli in the little frozen-dinner tray it came in. Not sure what that is above and to the right of it. Both kids reported that the toasted ravioli was lousy. And Buster doesn't call us Jane and King.