Ernesto on November 8th, 2008

Help Im flod. I know how this creation of Sofia's (as captioned by David at her request) feels… I am too. Help! Then again, who isn't? On a different note, I love that David has taken to writing captions to express his creatures' (and sometimes Sofia's creatures as well!) thoughts. They are both storytellers in [...]

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Ernesto on October 27th, 2008

Trick-or-treating with the kids on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, Oct. 26, 2008. If our kids were older, maybe it would be a bummer to have trick-or-treat on a different day than Halloween, and to have it in the daytime, but our kids are all young enough so that the decorations (some professional haunted house quality [...]

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Ernesto on October 11th, 2008

  We used to visit Beech Hill Farm in Hopkinton all the time when we lived in Concord (David was little then, and Sofia just a baby!).  Now we still try and get up there once or twice a year.  It's a great vibe for a fall, day especially because even though it's always busy [...]

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I wish I had taken a picture of David helping stack wood today.  Two cords in the rain. Wet, dirty work, and him in a long sleeve T-shirt, soaked and stained in the front from toting wood, a soggy black cap on his head, a big grin on his face as he selected the "just [...]

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Ernesto on July 4th, 2008

0704081402.jpg Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden Coffee, hot chocolate and checkers at Starbucks with David.

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Ernesto on July 2nd, 2008

IMG_0193 (1) Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden Well, it’s taken three full days back from vacation before I’ve found five minutes to actually post a note about vacation! It was a busy time, with two weekends of family get-togethers (great to see you all again! happens too infrequently!) and birthdays (mine included… am [...]

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Ernesto on April 28th, 2004

Last night I put David in the backpack and Kristen and I walked over to the library with him. On the way back he said his first sentence (a proud moment in any language-loving papa’s life)! “Run dada!” See, he really likes it when I jog with him in the backpack. I won’t do it [...]

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