Friends

Hilary and Luca.


Snack time.



Oliver and friend at his 3rd birthday pary
in Washington Square Park.



Luca playing with some of the ladies at the park.

A visit from down south!

Hello New York!
Gedie and Sara Ashley came to NY to see
Broadway shows (and hang out with us).



Union Square Park, before we went out
for Indian food in the East Village.





It's been 2 weeks since they left,
but LUCA is still talking about "Ashley".
It's a good thing we'll see her in 2 weeks
in Seattle for Andrea and David's wedding.

Tractor DANCE and PLAY

I promised a certain "GRANZIE" that I would
post this video of Luca dancing to the
trucks that BUMPA got him for his birthday last
year. If there's a beat, it's danceable to Luca!

From Ocean to Pond

Luca can make a "happy face" when I ask.
This is it!



Sands Point Preserve nature walk
in Port Washington.



Dead forest walk.



A beached happy fish.



Warming ourselves on the rocks.



Finding all sorts of good throwing rocks.



Alley Pond.
We went to see the ducks and migrating geese.



My little tree hugger.
I did NOT stage this shot.

More Easter photos

Too many jelly beans in Luca's mouth.

Running around with a headless hollow
chocolate bunny.

Like father like son.

MOM, let me in! I'll be a good boy!

Easter egg hunt and too many jelly beans

Luca's first real egg hunt. I think he understood the concept.
He really loved the chocolate bunny and jelly beans too!

Stomach Virus STRIKES HARD

Last week we had a surprise visitor...the rotavirus.
Luca woke up on Tuesday and had thrown up in the night and fallen back asleep in it. Here's a pretty photo with his hair sticking up and a thermometer in his ear.Then Rob got sick about an hour later. That lasted 24 hrs. for both of them. Then Sabrina got it on Thursday, stayed home with Luca, and then Thursday night....LUCA got it again.

It's Sunday and we're all ok now.
(did we mention Luca's babysitter might have it now?)

Hair BUTCHERING—chop chop chop

This is my BEFORE shot

As you can see, I am not happy with mommy and
daddy's decision to get my hair cut at a salon.

Straight BANGS.

CHOP JOB!

Here's my AFTER shot.
They tell me it will grow out!

PS--never go to a mall to get your hair cut

Circus — Dinner at Kalyani's — Potty Time

Kalyani and her mommy.

Waiting for a delicious Indian meal that
Kalyani's mommy made for all of us.

Darwin and Ramesh reading to Luca.

Ramesh, Kalyani's brother.

The Moscow circus was performing at Queens college.
They had lots of flexible and strong people on stage.

Luca ran UP and DOWN the aisles during
the intermission. He was copying the older kids
doing the same thing and tried to play with them.

This is pretty amazing...

...and so is this.
Luca did his first poopie in the potty
a few weeks ago so I bought him his own chair.
So far he doesn't show much interest in it.
I was hoping for early potty training!

Snow storm of '08

A cute video of Luca in his snowsuit sitting and trying to walk in the snow.

Luca's first snowman.

Putting on the finishing touches with plant life from our back yard.

MY SNOW ANGEL

It's tricky to walk in this stuff.

Happy

Dancing with Hilary at a play date (supervised by both parents, of course)

ONE & 1/2 YEARS OLD

Jaleela and Luca. She's almost 1.

Luca's babysitter, Inshani, and her daughter, Jaleela.
Luca shares everything, including his 1/2 eaten banana.

Luca needs to see everything I'm doing in the kitchen now.
His perch...the counter.

A trip to the Bronx zoo, mid-winter.
The bug carousel was open!

Enricka gave me this cool moped sweatshirt.

Sesame Street LIVE! We went with
Giacomo, Dorian and their mommy Jenny.
ELMO was like a rock star!

Elmo balloons - $10 each

Giacomo showing Luca the ropes at the playground.
It was 60 degrees. Beautiful day for running around Manhattan.

Luca at the playground.

At the end of the day and after missing a nap,
Luca was POOPED!

Our Wedding Ceremony Video

The wedding ceremony in the chapel at City Hall, New York.
We were in and out in 5 minutes!