August and September, 2003

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School's out, let's go to Europe for a month
(Paul was there for the first week.)
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  Punting on the Cam Nothing like beer and punting.   Micah liked this car just a little.
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Micah took this picture. No, we don't know who that is. Canoe on the Cam Paris. Visiting Xavier. Heat wave. Playing swords. The French guys are amused. Paris park wading pool. Pony rides
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Swords are popular at the Gomez Residence. Kira slept in this suitcase, which did not go unnoticed.

Back to England, Sulston Swarm. Micah bee-lines for the cakes.

 

Micah plants seeds and helps water the tomatoes
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Laila and Micah feasting on blackberries in Daphne and John's garden.

 

Watching the wheat/corn harvest, behind the Sulston back garden. At Laila's grandmother's farm. Kira's first swing. In the goat shed. We tried the goats milk. Hamburg, Like-a-Bikes with Hannah.
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Michail, an old friend of Ingrid's (Hannah's dad)

 

It's not blood. Back to Cambridge. Kira takes in nature. Wandlebury in Cambridge with Emma and Barbara.
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Those look like great steaks! ...Hey, has anybody seen Harry?

 

Well, he's going to miss all this great steak. Theo took the picture, but everybody else is here. Montauk dawn. How I wish it was a sunset instead.
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Instead of sand castles, the Pavlidis family has a tradition of making boreholes.

 

"Go surfing, see if I care." "Be careful!" Kira takes in nature, part two.
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Theo keeps us entertained at breaksfast.

Sean keeps the kids entertained during a brief surfing break.

 

Typical dinner scene. Homemade pizza. Hey, this thing is fun! Does it take off? I wanna try it!
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This is where Kira sleeps most nights, under the shelves in the kitchen. As far from us as possible.

 

Claire visited us from California. "I made you a happy birthday" (hummus and crackers) Micah doing his first "knob and hole" jigsaw puzzle.. (Don't get excited, Claire helped him) Kira in her lounge chair, doing her first "glob in the hole".
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A VIP visited our street (for at least the second time), filling it with limos, rifle-toting SWAT teams and secret service agents. Nobody seems to know who it was. First booster seat experience. The tray table holds her up. I'm a snail! Look! Look!

See Kira, I'm a snail!

Hmm, really. Is that what that is.

Inspiration for previous. This is "Scorpion", Micah's pet snail (he named it himself). Molly mourning the departure of Claire. For a while there she had an adult to herself.