my little buddy

this is one of our angel fish. he's so funny...he seriously follows & watches me every time i walk by the tank, and when i open the top, he always comes right to the top of the water. i know he just associates me with food, but hey...it's fun =) i never really liked fish before we got this aquarium. guess i'm cool with this one because i don't have to do anything to take care of it, except feed them occasionally. i can get lost just watching all the stuff charles has going on in this tank.

common phrases, classic mispronunciations, etc.

"...wul'...wul'..." ((...well...well...)).  ((translations?  "...i'm trying to argue my way out of the trouble i just got myself into," or, "...i'm right, even if you think i'm wrong.")) --ian

"janessa...(either long silence, random question, or statement from out in left-field somewhere)...??  janessa...?  janessa...?"  --ian

"wu'f...?"  ((what if...?))  "...oh, i know..."  --ian

"yew nork city"  ((new york city)) --tati

"play that funky music black boy..." --tati.  "tats, did you know that the song really says, 'play that funky music white boy',"?  --me.  "play that funky music white boy........but that just doesn't make any sense!"  --tati

"it's opposite day!  do you think i'm the meanest?" --ian.  "yeah, you're the meanest!" --me.  "aw, thank you!"  --ian.  "you're the nicest person in the whole world!"  --tati.  "ahh...that breaks my little heart!"  --ian

"please don't stop that music, music...please don't stop that music..."  --ian

and, my all time favorite..."transgenderation"  ((grand central station))  --ian

the beach

sometimes we like to go to the beach along the river. it's a chill spot, but there are always a lot of people there. the whole family went this time and we took the dog plus our friend frank (the extra guy in the second picture). lisa and i stayed out of the water...this was a couple weeks ago when both of us were in the middle of our messed-up-edness =)

this last picture was taken earlier at a different spot along the river, but i love it (although my camera doesn't take the best quality pictures) so thought i'd throw it in, too.

spiderman's 4th birthday party

showin' off his muscles!

this slide was his birthday present. charles dressed up as a villain (in a wet suit & goggles, with a hose from the shop-vac as his weapon) and it was up to spiderman to save the day. so funny to watch =) the kids loved it, although spiderman hadn't yet arrived on the scene in this picture.

and i just think this one is sooo cute =) didn't know spidey played the harmonica!

jammies & face paint...pure bliss!

lisa painted the kids' faces the other night. tati was so enamored with her ice-princess face and had a hard time concealing the bliss of it all. i love her face in this picture because she's trying so hard not to just burst at the seams with her smile. and then there's ian. he's just funny. he's some sort of super-hero, with a kung fu panda head band.