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• Project 365, days 239-245
• Empty chrysalis syndrome
• Project 365, days 232-238
• I see what you're doing there.
• Project 365, days 225-238
• The Huckleberry Railroad
• Back on Walloon
• Project 365, days 218-224
• Rearing Black Swallowtails
• Camping, a dry run
• Rock climbing
• Project 365, days 210-217
• Another year, another garden
• Project 365, days 204-210
• Seven years
• Slip n' Slide
• Project 365, days 197-203
• Art Fairs
• Townie Party
• Project 365, days 190-196
• Rolling Sculpture Car Show
• Project 365, days 183-189
• Happy Fourth
• Project 365, days 176-182
• Piano recital the first
• Project 365, days 169-175
• The concert
• Project 365, days 162-168
• We're not in Kansas anymore
• Project 365, days 155-161
• To Calvin, who is four years old today
• Celebrating four
• Project 365, days 148-154
• Bluebirds
• Project 365, days 141-147
• Project 365 days 134-140
• Project 365, days 127-133
• Tulip Time 2010
• Project 365, days 120-126
• Project 365, days 113-119
• Project 365, days 106-112
• Project 365, days 99-105
• Four wheeling
• Project 365, days 92-98
• Chickadee
• Easter
• Project 365, days 85-91
• Detroit Zoo, 4/1
• Project 365, days 78-84
• Up north in spring
• Project 365, days 71-77
• Zoo days are here again
• Project 365, days 63-70
• These boots were made for splashing
• Signs of spring
• Project 365, days 57-63
• In like a...lamb?
• Project 365, days 50-56
• Snow day
• Accordions
• Project 365, days 43-49
• Sunbathing in February
• Project 365, days 36-42
• Moose
• Project 365, days 29-35
• Time warp
• Project 365, days 22-28
• Another year, another license
• NAI Auto Show
• Project 365, days 15-21
• Don't bother me, I'm reading
• Cats love a good book
• Project 365, days 8-14
• Afternoon sun on a cold winter's day
• Project 365, days 1-7
• A note about Avatar
• New Years up north
• Christmas day times two
• Christmas Eve
• 0 days: May your Christmas be merry and bright!
• 1 day: Twas the Night Before Christmas
• 2 days: all wrapped up
• 3 days: finishing touches
• 4 days: baking up a storm!
• 5 days: Christmas jammies (in the snow)
• 6 days: dreaming of a white Christmas
• 7 days: counting down
• 8 days: Staying in touch
• 9 days: picture (almost) perfect
• 10 days: getting crafty
• 11 days: the halls are decked
• 12 days: Healthy for the holidays?
• Holiday Nights
• The shopping. It's done.
• Sinterklaasavond!
• Christmas in Dexter
• Thanksgiving is out, Christmas is in
• Being thankful
• Happy Thanksgiving to all
• Well, there's always next year
• Home grown
• When pigs fly
• Gathering Leaves
• Bandemer Park
• Wearing a hat inside
• Halloween
• Honey Pooh, and the cider mill, too
• Go blue, and happy Halloween, too.
• Carved.
• Pumpkin tour stop 2, and some portraits
• Good times tailgate fun.
• It begins
• Trains in Chicago
• Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
• Just one more year... (and pumpkin tour stop 1, Wing Farms)
• Magic after dusk
• A new coat of paint
• Drag racing
• All good things
• Frolicking, and some portraits
• Waxing into fall
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Another winner!
• Big boy class
• Tailgating: a Calvin's-eye view
• Morning again?
• Hello 2009 Season...
• Community Fair, take two
• Labor Day weekend
• Football season kickoff
• Dirt.
• Here, there, everywhere.
• "We've got a new operator"
• No metal on the track
• There's something wrong with this picture.
• Meet Mouse
• Joy on the face of a child
• Friendship at three
• Dazed in Dexter
• Flying in the face of conventional wisdom...
• Adult entertainment
• Thirty out of forty-eight as two
• Package? What package?
• Make new friends, but keep the old
• Highlights
• Watching airplanes...
• Garden fresh
• Milestones
• Death, taxes, and rain during Art Fair
• The laundry is done
• Jiggity Jig
• Going by with a bang
• Drum circling
• Rain or shine
• Just two
• Lights out
• Fathers, family, and fun
• Another weekend another race
• Happy Fathers' Day
• A cow in an elevator
• An artist at work
• Shades
• To Calvin, who is 3 years old today
• Please rain
• Nature seems to like us
• Toad
• Running Ann Arbor
• Garden season now underway
• Time. It got away from us.
• Tadpoles
• Crafting for Mothers Day
• Back in town
• Like father like son
• The new haircut
• Little helper
• Zoo season is now open
• It's ahhh weather time
• Easter is eggciting
• Ahhh, Monday
• Happy Easter to all, and to all a blessed day!
• Window Art
• Spring was last week. This is today.
• It was spring yesterday
• Back from Shuffling
• Grrrrrr.
• Library day
• Spring
• Happy St. Patrick's Day
• Spring
• Mama blue, how do you do?
• Some days are like that
• Celebrating, ummmm, spring
• Ahhh, spring
• Playing house
• Shoes
• Ahhhh, all that bakery goodness
• Junk foods
• Happy Valentine's Day 2009
• It may be winter today...
• Pondering
• Praising Monday
• Penny for your toddler thoughts
• First word
• Make believe
• Balloons
• Accomplishment. It's a wonderful thing.
• A slippery slope to normal
• The blink of an eye
• We're back
• Hiatus for the holidays
• 0 days, Merry Christmas
• 1 day: Kerrytown capers
• 2 days: Christmas favorites
• 3 days: a comfy seat and a good book
• 4 days: cookies and carols
• 5 days: our yule log is here early
• 6 days: hindsight is 20/20
• 7 days: let's try that again
• 8 days: up to our you know whats
• 9 days: all wrapped up
• 10 days: and they're off.
• 11 days: past the half way point
• 12 days: What do YOU want for Christmas?
• Ford, Victoria, what's the difference?
• Welkom Sinterklaas!
• Have you lost the magic?
• Thanksgiving weekend
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• The bus in our living room
• PB & J
• Helping...
• Winter Morning
• I'm dreaming of... Thanksgiving first.
• Calvin's first voting experience
• Tomorrow can change our world
• There's no sugar in wooden eggs
• It's October 31st...
• Pumpkin guts
• The next big step
• When toddlers dress themselves...
• Fall Leaves Fall
• The joys of fall
• Our new addition...
• Chicago, marathon style
• Rainy fall days
• For heaven's sake
• Friends.
• Well, we've pet everything else...
• Back in time
• Bear hugs
• Our Thinker...
• The most fuel efficient car in our garage
• (almost) Everyone wins
• On a collision course with the photographer
• Game Day with Calvin
• On Safari
• Who ordered the heat on Labor Day?
• Here's to you, Maize and Blue
• Learning
• One week and all is well
• Thursdays in Chelsea
• Working it all in
• Goodnight
• They're ready
• You really can go back
• Making a big splash
• Gathering together
• A complimentary toad.
• Five years of fun redux
• Five years of fun
• If you plant it, they will come
• The joy of reading
• Know what's exciting about this?
• Another year, another fair
• A mostly finished job
• Raining irony, and not much else.
• Friday means music. And ice cream.
• Fun in the summer sun
• Fireworks, grilling, and mud wrestling
• Happy Fourth of July!
• The Milkman Cometh
• Summer entertainment
• Two year portraits
• It rainbowed on our picnic
• A garden to grow on
• Jammies at the Library
• A day behind
• Already a stand out at two
• The tastes of summer
• Slip sliding away
• To Calvin, who is two today,
• Fudging the dates
• Rain, rain, don't go away.
• We're now a three car family.
• The first haircut
• A touch of irony.
• Found an ant.
• Ha ha, made you look.
• To mothers everywhere...
• Sense and Sensitivity
• More than just tulips.
• Soynut butter. It's what's for lunch.
• Everything is fascinating...
• Three cheers for summer weather
• Out of the mouths of babes.
• To Iowa and back...
• Our rockstar...
• Lightning will strike twice.
• You know you live in a small town when...
• The house does not make the home
• The move is going well.
• Happy Easter
• Ha Ha Ha
• Welcome to Spring
• Moving right along...
• We could use an extra day
• Amazing
• Happy lunar eclipse night
• Childhood is wasted on the young
• Happy Valentine's Day!
• It's hard to believe...
• Vacationing in Ann Arbor.
• This is us today.
• Indoor Activities
• Chores
• Let the conversation begin.
• Snow, we miss you.
• Back in the water again
• Tornado warnings and gale force winds
• Back to (anything but) routine
• December 25, 2007
• A friend by any other name...
• An old fashioned Christmas
• Calvin, meet Sinterklaas
• The joys of the season
• Be vewy, vewy quiet, we're hunting Chwistmas Twees
• The wonders of the season.
• The food we celebrate
• Happy Thanksgiving
• For every season...
• When is a chore not really a chore?
• And once again...
• Learning a new trick.
• Put them back!
• ???
• And Halloween Happening makes three...
• Second time's a charm
• The key to a healthy Halloween
• You're not fooling anyone
• From fiery to frigid
• Did anyone lose a kid?
• These must be the halcyon days of fall
• Driving edamommy up the wall
• Fancy footwork
• The daredevil
• Pick a good one
• A saving grace
• Not exactly twinkle toes yet
• Happy Labor Day
• Play Baby Play...
• 4-H
• New Shoes
• Shhhh!
• A wet welcome
• Did you miss us?
• Ewwwww..... you ate what????
• Happy Four years to us!
• Duck love
• A maelstrom of runaway days
• Small triumphs
• Best seats in the house.
• It's the fourth of July
• Giraffe laughing kid...
• Did you know....
• Strange Fruit
• Disc golf anyone?
• A new way to ride, a new taste, a new sign...
• A Father's Weekend Hike
• To Calvin, on his first birthday
• Happy first birthday, Calvin!
• It's a party! Until someone gets hurt...
• Duck nurse more cat dog
• Holiday Weekend
• Consequences of a toddler...
• Techno Baby
• Already as tall as his dad?
• May 13, 2007...
• Our big boy
• To Calvin, who is 11 months old today,
• Tulip Time!
• Strange friends
• No girls allowed
• Back to the zoo!
• Understanding toys.
• It's Easter again!
• A new way to view the world
• The three toothed walking wonder
• To Calvin, who is ten months old (today)
• We remember.
• Saying goodbye.
• First steps
• Adding spice to our lives
• It's March 17th....
• Officially 9 months
• Eating the outdoors
• To Calvin, who is nine months old today!
• Be careful what you ask for...
• The lion has arrived
• Swimming lessons
• Taking carrots from a baby
• The weather indoors
• It's February 14th...
• We got him a car!
• To Calvin, who is eight months old today!
• Cruise control
• There's no getting away from him now!
• There is a use for the snowsuit this year!
• Awwww, Calvin's parents are growing up.
• And the special today is....
• Bananappeal
• Calvin's new smile
• A converstaion and a bit about the weather.
• Eureka!
• To Calvin, who is seven months old today!
• We're going soft...
• All I got for Christmas...
• Happy 2007!
• One last Christmas dinner
• It may not be a box, but...
• He does exist!
• Merry Christmas one and all!
• A big week
• A week before Christmas!
• Baby play
• It's easy being green
• family dinner
• 6 month pediatrician appointment
• To Calvin, who is six months old today!
• Two-way play
• Just call us the Nielsons.
• Santa really isn't that scary
• A tree in the house!
• A tree in the house????
• Happy...Black Friday?
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Thank you Mr. Esophagus
• Slow down this horse!
• Our most favorite pictures yet!
• New developments
• Oops...a day late, and other issues
• To Calvin, who is five months old today
• Fun with Spit!
• Calvin meet Ollie. No, not eat Ollie.
• Baby, it's cold outside.
• Tricks and treats
• Who is entertaining whom here?
• A Jumper by any other name...
• Photo Shoot - month 4
• Halloween identity crisis!
• Play peekaboo with Calvin!
• Halloween down on the farm
• Baby proofing (or lack thereof)
• Isn't it October?
• Is that a laugh?
• 4 month old stats
• To Calvin, who is four months old today
• Beautiful weekend for celebrations
• Happy October!!!
• "Warning: Never Leave..."
• Everything, yes everything, goes in the mouth
• Trying out segues. Ways.
• Happy autumnal equinox
• Baby food
• Calvin's three month photo shoot
• arrrr...happy talk like a pirate day, everybody!
• Video game troll
• Brief but beautiful
• The other problem with gripping...
• A milestone we wanted, and one we didn't
• To Calvin, who is three months old today
• Getting on up there in days
• Where's the remote?
• Crikey!
• The season opener
• The zoo at home
• The trouble with gripping...
• We Pot-lucked out
• Joining the choir
• Grabbing, swinging, chewing
• Special visits - two of them
• And... we have a thumb sucker. (redux)
• Looking into the Future
• Comments appreciated
• Cortney has a bald head?
• the excitement of discovery
• A Saturday down on the farm...
• Milking it (working title: You do the math)
• To Calvin, who is two months old today
• Hey out there!
• Calvin's trip to the big lake
• Yes, he has grown
• Growth spurts - several of them.
• A summer without a vacation...
• Three years and a baby
• Beer and sports
• A pool party
• Now only six minutes to Africa
• Playing hot potato, I mean, baby
• Calvin in live action!
• Yep, we're townies
• Ice fishing and playing in the sprinkler
• Just Calvin having Saturday fun
• A growing boy needs his own car
• Our return to the zoo
• Calvin is trying to tell us something...
• No plan is a good plan
• A new vernacular
• To Calvin, who is one month old today
• Milk from another source
• The "tale" end of a smile...
• Happy birthday to the US
• Fingerpainting is not for sissies
• The animals are still here...
• Becoming parents
• Baby wearing and ice cream
• The doctor confirmed it
• Showers all around
• Growing for sure!
• Look, Calvin is learning to dance!
• A day of returns
• Celebrating two weeks!
• Firsts for Calvin, regression for his parents
• Storms? What storms?
• A little parent care
• To Calvin, who was not due until today...
• Happy first father's day!
• Celebrating one week!
• June 15 - a little more rested
• June 14 milestones
• June 13 milestones
• June 12 milestones
• I now understand what before I could not.
• Calvin's arrival!
• Nesting, nesting, nesting...
• Tattletale
• Raining Kangaroos
• Building a library
• A pregnant moment
• Okay! We're ready!
• To Australia in under a minute flat.
• Keeping Cookie out.
• Daddy type jobs...
• Africa was active today!
• The last pre-baby vacation!
• An outpouring of love.
• Ummmm......
• In our back yard
• May showers bring June babies!
• Not much...
• Rapberry, meet the giraffes. Giraffes, meet Raspberry.
• Baby tested, dog approved
• Some assembly required
• April showers bring June babies
• 31 down, 6-9 to go
• Easter enrichment at home
• Easter enrichment at the zoo
• True Michigan spring
• Teenagers again!
• Laundry at our house
• A visit from far sort of away friends...
• No April fools
• 28 weeks - the 2/3 mile marker!
• March showers bring June babies!
• Unveiling the nursery!
• Shade-scapades (an update)
• Progress in the nursery!
• Down in the double digits!
• We're not the only ones nesting!
• Why is Cookie so embarrassed?
• A quiet weekend.
• Bear and Peacock are friends!
• Weekend whirlwind
• On the way out the door
• Preparation underway
• All quiet on the Western front
• Raspberry is Unremarkable
• Another year older and wiser.
• Kicking...It's not just for mothers anymore!
• Cookie's having a ball...
• Mexican jumping... Raspberries?
• Yes, year-old cake can be good
• Coincidence? We think... probably!
• A winter spa break!
• Tradition!
• And... we have a thumb sucker.
• Yes, it really is almost 4am...
• Snow, snow, and more snow...
• Music on a Sunday
• Announcing Raspberry
• Tree shopping
• Countertenors are real
• Let it snow, let it snow...
• To the West Coast in a day!
• Voila
• Extreme Makeover: Kitchen Edition
• Birthday Week
• Birthday Tailgate
• Honk if you love hooters
• Necessity is the mother of invention
• A visit from the west.
• Oktoberfest is German for beer...
• Video games are good for you
• Dedicated to Matt
• Just checking in.
• Yes, that is a kangaroo...
• Of giraffe tongues and porcupine tails
• A day without a Mexican...
• Football season has begun!
• Help, hope and prayers
• Didgeridooin'
• Good wine doesn't come under $15
• "Watch out, Jon's in manly mode!"
• Four minutes to Africa
• "Another big piece of metal on the track..."
• Our zoo missed us!
• Wine country in Oregon...
• Still apart...
• A country apart
• Parting: not so sweet sorrow
• "A lady on the left is no lady at all..."
• Rock N Roar, Toledo Zoo
• Artwork belongs on walls
• A desperate lengthening of days
• We are on vacation...
• Beach Blanket Bingo
• Tip of the Mitt
• Memberfest
• Fairy Tale Weekend
• A marriage in numbers
• Wedding #3 (or #4, depending...)
• Art Fair in Ann Arbor
• Making it up to our zoo
• Cheating on our zoo
• Wedding #2
• Wedding #1
• Lost and Found
• Monumental Animals
• Off to Washington D.C.
• Capybara and Pudu Are Friends
• Frogger Live
• Comedy of errors
• The Roadhouse Rules
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• Round one, sprinklers.
• It's a fathers' day miracle....
• Zootastic
• (Re)visiting Ann Arbor
• A wolverine by any other name...
• The arrival
• New furniture!
• Spring showers, May flowers