Lorelei is now starting to try climbing onto things.. unlikely with that tush, but she still tries	Elliott's favorite activity - creating culinary masterpieces for his stuffed frogs (fly pie anyone? Millipede milkshake?)	painting
Shadow getting a pedicure	Elliott and Dada paint some more	snails all aligned.. presumably to the water current
Lorelei starting to climb stairs	my new get rich quick scheme: vegetarian bologne art	Well hey, it was fun, and they were eaten!
Elliott contemplates...	builds levers and machines..	you push here, and this one moves..
Released, finally!	Lorelei tries to walk in way too big boots	I want to eat the mud...
I HATE THESE BOOTS!	ugh, why is walking so hard out here?	I can't dig! this dirt is too hard! aaah! (I didn't realize it, but he was coming down with a 3 day throw-up stomach bug... hence having no fuse. sigh)
As if going outside wasn't bad enough, I actually tried to get a nice picture of him. It's like, in trying to get a cute photo, I actually evoke the latent illness (look back at my atttempts at Christmas pictures to see this.. they both came down with horrible fevers, month -long runny noses and double ear infections after that photo shoot!).	So much for those baby blues..	Well, at least he has fluffy clean hair, right?
almost...	trying not to smile..	if only for the hand...
the best I could do	back to whirling dervish	Lorelei wrecks havoc with letters in the kitchen
Elliott snuggles up	Lorelei joins us	She's not always smiling.. not so keen on sharing Mom's lap with her brother!
caught in the act	pull.. shred.. repeat..	Elliott still sick as a dog, rips off his shirt, collapses on the floor and falls fast asleep while I talk on the phone. He actually went upstairs and slept for another 3 hours. Yikes!
Lorelei enjoys some nummy after bonking her headfor the seventh time that day (and it's only 10am)	having a ball and puppet party	Looking flushed but chipper
talking to pig	Lorelei desperately wants to get into the bunny cage	Just standing around, really..
I bring Basil out for a visit	Aaah!	Bunny's eyes.. gentle!
Basil is not impressed with the intruder, when he returns to his pad	Fiona looks on	Shadow's such a goofus, whoever heard of a cat pretending to be a bunny..
If at first you don't succeed...	Hmm, maybe this foot first...	ok, what if I try my head, and then...
I bring out music toys as a diversion	bang bang..	singing in the bath
Babe-Zilla		showing off her briefly curly locks
sound asleep with Shadow (she sleeps cuddled up to the baby for every nap - never near her face)	Lorelei begged for a hardboiled egg, so I decided to let her try one	Mmmm! (sort of, it got enthusiastically crushed into bits and thrown everywhere after this. Egg yolk has dethroned white rice as officially the messiest food to eat in a high chair)
Elliott munches on a graham cracker	mmm... experience the divinity of Honey Graham	HOW old is this kid??!?
OK, looking a little pale from his illness here..	No, he's not stoned, he's just in mid-head-twirl (he likes having long hair)	Lorelei tries a graham cracker
giving Shadow some love	Elliott skillfully breaks a whole graham cracker long ways perfectly!	Believe me, you don't want to walk a mile in those shoes..
Lorelei caught in the act of emptying the recycling and her sock bin all over the hall	making off with her prize	Elliott gets carried away with brushing his teeth and rinsing
goofball	again! again! (who else has to mop after their kid brushes?)	Hey, can I do that??
Lorelei gleefully walks up the stairs holding onto Mike's hands, and prepares to happily plummet to her death, feet first (no fear, no sense)