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

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

Daisy cat

9/26/08

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

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 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.

Grampaland

There's ice cream there.

Very funny, Grampa, but the last time you tried that trick you almost lost your arm.

7/24/08

Sunshine

girl

7/23/08

Gold country

Salon has an annual "retreat" on a family ranch in the Gold Country. You know, team-building, strategizing, blue-sky brainstorming, that sort of thing. Yeah, those aren't allowed. It's a great time, and because we were just barely back in the S.F. last year, this was our first year going with the kids, and their first semi-quasi camping experience. We slept in a house, but otherwise, pretty outdoorsy. It was two nights, and I figured there was a good chance the kids would be bored, unhappy, scared of various things or otherwise wanting to go home after about 30 minutes.

It took about 10 minutes for them to turn into Huck Finn.


Walking.

Running.

Eating lofa bread.

Being amused by Theo, daddy's former co-star, and Louis. Mostly Theo, no offense to Louis.

Helping Gary with the coooking.

Hitchin' a ride with Dad.

A little breakfast reading.

7/18-19/08

Plum patrol!

Our new house came with three plum trees in the backyard, and when we moved in it was harvest time. We'd have about 50 new yellow plums on the ground every day. Later, red ones dropped. They're good. Anyway, the kids volunteered for plum cleanup duty. The plums can get yucky, so they got some rubber gloves.

Got one.

Into the wheelbarrow, which has since broken from the heavy use. Sad day.

Transport phase.

Dumpage. This was accompanied by much mechanical beeping.

"Heh-heh. Work away, silly humans."

7/14/08

Bruise

Tripped, went head first into the base of a rocking chair. Ow.

7/8/08

When leopards attack

their daddies.

I'll wait in the jeep while the leopard tries to eat the giraffe.

She survived.

Pix taken late June

Daisy checks Mom's health

Four of the 2,976,483,769,085,321 questions she asked yesterday.

Are you not feeling good?
I'm feeling better than I was yesterday but I'm still a little sick.
Why?
Well, I have some germs that got inside my body and they're still there
Why did they get there?
I don't know, they just got in there somehow.
What are their names?

Song by Daisy

Oh the houses, oh the houses
Oh the sun in my eyes
Oh the sun on the houses
Oh rain on the houses
At the park! At the park!
You can go on the big-kid swings on Friday
At the park

Carousel DUI

Cornmeal pancakes

Cooker

Girl

Result

Yum

Dance party

Mission walk

Bike wheel tree

St. Francis Fountain

Duck

Whee!

Another tree

Pop!

Sporty

Super

market

STL cont'd, one more time

We're back in St. Boogie, in late May or something. We will get through all these pix.

Maryanne's House o' Style

Ooh-la!

Magic House. Big Legos.

Construction site

"We're gonna have to run conduit. We'll just run conduit. Now where's my assistant with those bricks?"

There she is.

Yeah, I had to drive this dork around the job site.

We have at last exhausted the STL trip.

STL cont'd, still

At the zoo. Barbara's got Daisy

Two Daisies

A smooch for one of them.

The chimp's jealous?

Ted Drewes with Uncle Matt

Yum

STL cont'd: Grant's Farm

Buster and Talia in red

On the tram

Elephant

Talia and Daisy at the bird show.

Ummmm

Feeding baby goats, in various ways

This is more like it

Camel

And then time for hanging out with friends

Matthew

Taylor, wearing Daisy's hat. With Jon

King's hat. She's a hat taker, that one

"You know I'll get it back, large, ridiculous man."

STL cont'd: City Museum

Daisy's not too sure she wants to ride the little train, but she tries it for one trip through the dark tunnel and ...

Yeah. Didn't like it.

Buster did.

And some climbing.

Cave exploration.

Sliding down the giant slide with Dad.

Back to the train.

I'll just be over here eating a grilled cheese.

I got some chips!!

Whatchootalkinbout.

Onward!

STL cont'd: Memorial Day party

The Derschmukes hosted a viewing of the Paris-Kaufmans.

Buster's first time playing Wii. That's Van on the left. Guess whose turn it is.

Daisy and Bennett
- - - - -
So Buster, A.J. and Van kept kind of disappearing behind the garage, and Dad was wondering what they were up to. So he snuck over, reached around the corner with the camera and ...

Then, perhaps bravely, perhaps foolishly, he stepped out into the open, which turned out to be ...

... his final act.

On the lam

But a heart o' gold. A present for Mom

STL cont'd: Indiana

Daisy's new friend

OK, Miss Saucy

Grandad Jim is the funniest man in the world

Reflective

Stee-rike!

Crr-rrack! (The pitcher took the pitchers)

Jump on Dad's back (that's Dad's neck lower right)

Having your hair pulled to get the knots out isn't so bad when Grandad Jim makes with his famous "Little Piggy" routine

It's not a trip to Evansville until you've made pancakes with Grandad Jim. Right?

Right

Trip to St. Louis

4 a.m., waiting in the dark (camera flash notwithstanding), in pajamas, for the SuperShuttle.




STL, we are here.

Daisy takes direction

Smile:


Don't smile:



Look serious:


Smile:

New suit

Checking the look in the mirror.

Dance moves too.

Piñata

Gabe's birthday party

Goldfingah!

Well, not gold.

Everybody

Clobber Daddy.

Fisherman's Wharf

Cheese!

Actually, some kind of muffin.

Eight!

Run!

Our laundry

can walk

Lasagna

and art

Drama club

See-saw