Every night I come home to a family. After nearly a decade of marriage and nearly five years being a parent, I'm still not entirely used to it. When it was just AJ and Jennifer waiting for me at home, I'd be greeted with a joyful, “Daddy's home!” and a running jump from my ferret-on-crack son. Now, I still get that, but I also get the quieter (sometimes whinier!) love and greeting from my beautiful daughter, Elisabeth. (Jennifer took this picture, by the way. Click the thumbnail for a bigger shot.)

I don't know what I'm going to do when boys start taking an interest in her.

Relocate to Montana.

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I enjoyed a great afternoon with my kids this last Sunday. Since I’ve been in a new photo-sig at work, and since I started this blog a month ago, I thought I’d take my wife’s little 3-megapixel camera with me. Sure, it’s not an SLR, but why be a snob—especially when the images are free?  

We got a late start and didn’t head out for McDonald’s Playland until very late, and by the time we got down the road—I mean, all of about 15 minutes—Elisabeth had passed out. You can see here that she’s pretty groggy, and that was after she and AJ had slept in the van for about two hours.

Yes, you read that right. I’m a horrible parent. I made my kids sleep in an air-conditioned van. :: sigh :: Oh well. Once Elisabeth

My incomparable daughter, Elisabeth, taken about two months ago. She was about a year and three months old when this picture was taken by my wife.

Sadly, it's my wife's camera, and so I don't usually have it to take many pictures. Hopefully, that'll change, and I'll be able to post some new pix of my own here. Or I can convince Jen to use this site to upload frequent images of the kids here. That'd be fun!

I do love my kids.

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