So my phone is almost full...

...so I thought I should drop some pictures here for you!

Andy's phone is the one that takes better pictures, so these aren't great, aren't always recent, and don't really reflect everything we've been doing.

Some of these pictures go way back.  I think this is from last January.  Brisco left us in June. :(  We're glad to have a lot of pictures of him.  And of course we still find his hair everywhere.

 Coloring

There are over 80 pictures, and the next six or so are sideways.  Sorry.  Jane with monster feet.

 Playing at Busy Bees, earlier this year

 Eh, I think this picture's already been posted here.  Jane with baby Kyla

 Inside the hamper

 Pushing George down the "slide"

 Big George and Little George.  Also Jane (maybe March?)

 Getting ready for the rain

 Too cool

 Playing at Barcroft park, which Jane calls the Purple Park, with no purple to be seen.

 Mom and Jane in a purple sweater knitted by Grandma Mary Lynn.  We just got it out of the closet for this season!

 Mickey Mouse sweater, gone through a lot of family kids

 Spelunker

 Playing on the ipad at Grandma and Grandpa's house, must have been March

 SUZ AND CAT!

 Jane climbing a tree

 I left this dress in San Diego accidentally.

 Doctor Daddy

 Playing at the park

 Brisco at the park after the farmers market one Saturday

 You can't see it that well, but this is a framing store called Jeff's in Springfield, MA.  We love the Jeff's sign.

 Daddy and Jane sharing a smoothie that was, in all honesty, a shake.

 At the Air and Space annex with Grandma and Grandpa

 The "Wendy" with Grandma Wendy

 A little rain in Shirlington

 Daddy's shirt, shoes, and bag.

 On the Metro on the way to the zoo, June

 Tiger paws

 Riding a bear

 Swinging with Edward

 Best snuggle-buddy

 Jane (and Jane)'s birthday party!

 Hats

 Sticker belly

 Jane's birthday present, a purple bike.  It was either too hot or too buggy to ride it, for months.

 Grandma Wendy braided Jane's hair

 Buzz Lightyear for Halloween!  She actually wore her pumpkin outfit, Buzz, and was Tweak the Octonaut with her friends Edward being Peso, and Phoebe being Dashi.  Now that Jane's three, I'm understanding a bit more what life in the parenting world is like!  Halloween started for us on Friday, and there were events every single day until Monday.  So now we're trying to figure out how to deal with all this candy...

Here is the Title

There's a van we walk past all the time and Jane would always talk about the "Buzz part."  Do you see it?  She brought her Buzz along once and I took a picture for comparison.

 Dad and Jane at a park after the farmers' market

 Brisco

 We went back to Massachusetts the weekend before last for commencement.  Jane got to visit her old daycare and some old friends.

 Jane and Grace

 Jane showing Uncle Keith and Grandma Wendy how she feeds Donkey Oatey

 Look, Grandma, how much there is to do at Nin's!

 Nin even got donuts as a special treat for Jane's visit

 Digging

 Another day, Serena had recommended an indoor playplace called Billy Beez.  It was AWESOME.  It wasn't just like "oh, come with your kid and adults are allowed too."  The slides were huge and some of them steep and scary even for me.  It took Jane a long time to warm up to the slides, but the rainbow ones were a clear winner and she took turns running the adults back up to them.  There's supposed to be one opening up about 45 minutes from here, and I hope we'll make the trip.  It was that fun.

One A Quarter

So I'm way behind.  And tired today and don't feel like writing.  You're just here for the pictures anyway.

Jane and Mom

 Her "I'm smiling for the camera" smile

 Jane adoring Dr. Daddy

 Hiking (and riding) at Great Falls National Park

 Cabbage Patching

 We've made friends with some neighbors, Edward and Phoebe

 For no reason, my friend Joe as a child, on a button.

 Daddy-daughter downward dog

Moved in!

We moved to Virginia two weeks ago, which both feels like a long and short time.  I think we're about done with our Target runs to get all the things we forgot or had to leave behind--turns out they frown on cleaning fluids and aerosol cans in moving trucks.

Anyway!  We visited the American History last weekend, and took Jane to a playplace last week called Busy Bees.  I joined a Mama group, so I hope that'll be a good resource for us.  It's supposed to snow here quite a bit in the next few days.  Jane and I went to the store today and we did our best to stock up on necessities.

Our new place is pretty nice.  At least two other women said they lived here too, when I took Jane to an open house for the mothers' group.  It's not too noisy or anything, plenty of outside space to wander with Jane and Brisco.  I think he's happier getting more walks, instead of our lazy dog-dangling of yore when we'd just put him on his outside line.  (It means getting bundled up and dragging Jane out, though, which means it takes at least three times as long.  Oh well.)

At Busy Bees

 Slide and climbing handholds to go up to the clear plastic bouncy room

 Bouncy room.  Jane sat by the door and let other kids do the bouncing.  But she seemed to have a good time.

 (Guess which kid is ours?)

 Love this blurry shot.

 Much like when my dad visited the computer museum, Andy and I thought, "Why is this in a museum?  And why can't we touch?"  Someone did touch.  Oops.

 Trying on hats

 This little girl?  Not so nice.

 Spam in the place where I live... ham and pork!

 They have an activity room for kids.  The focus this day was making an invention that makes noise.

 $30+ museum lunch.  But at least someone gets a Smithsonian discount!!

 Jane saw this cast iron figure (better picture below) and said, "That's a sperm whale."  It was.  All those hours watching Octonauts were not for naught!

 No caption necessary.

Wish us luck through the blizzard!  Of course it won't compare to Massachusetts, Wisconsin, or Michigan, but it will be just as dangerous if people lose their minds and don't know what to do.  We'll be staying off the roads.