her caption: "three monsters doing what monsters do best: making scary faces at the camera"
She picks him up two afternoons a week so I can run longer errands, get some work done, and/or just not subject Frida to the car (though she's getting a bit better about that, and only screams 25-ish % of the time). Sam adores her; she is one of few adults, and I think the only non-teacher, non-family-member, for whom he's performed the entire "peanut butter and jelly" song, enthusiastically, all 3 verses. (I'm hoping to videotape this soon, so stay tuned...)
We're beginning the process of interviewing potential nannies for Frida. I hope I can find someone as good as Karla... but she's a full-time undergrad and isn't looking for a full-time childcare position, sadly for us.
Omi was here most of last week... and so the basement is nearly tidy (other than the pile of stuff to get rid of; Craig's List seems to be chipping away at that, though) and the filing in the study is all caught up, and as always after her visits the house and garden look better all around. Most of the leaves are off the trees, except the Japanese maple outside the study windows... which is consequently getting extra light for its gorgeous red leaves to glow in.
I keep trying to get a picture of Frida's supersweet crinkly-eyed smile, but this is the closest I've come so far:
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