There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff
Photos from Aug 14, 15, 16, 2004

Audra before swimming lessons

The big leap!

You got me right?

Sky! Eagle! Monkey! The arm commands for swim class.

Excited just to be near the water.
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan

Bowling with a 30 lb. ball.

Strike!

Water in the face.
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto

This heat is too much.

Camera hound

Lil' Burrito
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

Just after the Great Cat Rescue. Dad had to
climb a ladder to get my kitty out of the tree.

After Blair's first game.

Training at 3 yrs old.
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. ~Margaret Atwood

Someday I will be in the Olympics.

Watch this foot work.
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

Down hill tumble

Blair takes the ball.
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

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