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Pix:Trips:More Christmas 2006
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Christmas Tree Number 3
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Sunrise from Plane
This is as we're flying out of Boston, too early in the morning. I like the colors, and I also like the fact that we're clearly flying over some sort of lava field.
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Rental House
We stayed at the Full House Farm, a vacation house, as six people was a little much to squish into Jess and Dave's. It was really pretty.
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Waterfall
The patio outside the rental house has this fountain/waterfall, very burbly.
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And a cat!
Jerry with Bootsie, by the hot tub (which we were always getting back too late to play in).
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Wild Turkey
These guys are hard to stalk close enough to get a picture of.
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Tree Walk
People explored the nearby woods while Jess, Jerry and I went up to Clear Lake.
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Amelia and Isabelle
Pictures of little kids always seem to be aerial shots.
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Amelia Helping
She sits up here to help make dinner, which involves holding one of each ingredient and sorting them by cuteness.
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More Amelia
(I never did get a picture of her holding up the baby mushroom)
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Bok Choy
But Mom got one of her with the baby bok choy (also "cute") the next day.
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Old Dude and New Dude
The first farm cat was renamed "Dude" from something un-namelike. Then they acquired a second cat which was already named Dude.
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New Dude and Jerry
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New Dude
Jerry was very impressed by New Dude's coloration and blue eyes.
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New Dude snoozing
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Old Dude snoozing
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Guinea Hens
The chickens were featured in a previous trip; the guinea hens are new. They don't produce useful eggs, but are a noisy sort of watch-bird.
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Erik and Pickle
A different sort of house bird. Pickle likes tall guys.
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Sheep!
This isn't actually Jess's sheep, it's from the farm part of the rental house.
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Bouncy Swing (Isabelle)
Babies really like these things.
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Bouncy Swing (Amelia)
So do toddlers, apparently, even when they're way too big for them.
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Tree Decorating
(This is actually before I got here; I swiped a bunch of Mom's pictures)
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Lew and Isabelle
Isabelle is less interested on helping decorate the tree. She really likes faces.
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More Lew and Isabelle
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Amelia at Sand Table
I like the thoughtful look. (This is another picture from before or after I was there; this is at her day care.)
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Gingerbread Cookies
A Schoch family tradition
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Star Cookie
Eva won the "best cookie" prize.
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Jigsaw Puzzle
Amelia was very excited about the 20-piece jigsaw puzzle we borrowed from the rental house. She's good at color-matching; orientation is still a little tricky.
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Isabelle
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More Isabelle
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Isabelle
I've just stuck all the different random Isabelle pictures from Christmas here. They don't have very much context.
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Isabelle
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Isabelle
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Dave and Isabelle
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Reindeer Jess
Christmas morning!
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Elf Jess
(Originally, the youngest kid got to be the present-distributing elf. But then she kept the job forever. :) ) This is some sort of flutey thing that was in her stocking (Mom clarifies that it is an Armadillo Flute from Costa Rica).
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Jess & Amelia
Jerry is in the background reading the Civ IV manual.
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Amelia and Moon Book
Amelia currently likes moons. She can't read yet, but there are pictures of the moons in the book.
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Amelia in Rain Gear
Christmas presents. She was very enthusiastic about demonstrating the raincoat and umbrella.
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Family on Sofa
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Play Tent
Mom and Amelia and Isabelle play in the tent
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Mom in the tent
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Fractal Broccoflower
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Family Picture
(possibly official)
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Isabelle and Amelia
And a Baby Balloon
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Water Toys
These are those things that get bigger when you put them in water.
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They've gotten lots bigger at this point.
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Beach Family Picture
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Eva on Rock
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Erik on Rock
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Erik on Rock
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Erik and Eva
(on rock)
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Laura and Jerry
(on rock. Plus ocean)
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Amelia
(on small rock)
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Isabelle
(in backpack carrier)
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Isabelle
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Amelia
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Amelia and Dave
Even better than a backpack carrier!
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Amelia and Jess
with Stick City
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Taunting the Waves
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More Taunting the Waves
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The Waves Get Erik.
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Erik Betrays Eva...
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...and Eva Gets Wet...
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...and Erik Flees...
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...and Eva Stomps Off...
(well, not really. She's just walking.)
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Mom, Lew,
and small fuzzy seaweed ball
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Sun going down
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Going down some more
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Almost gone
(with interesting cloud blockage)
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Eat the Octopus!
Having spent several years being fed, Amelia is now keen to help other people eat.
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Moon, Clouds, and Trees.
(not at the beach) This turned out (with curve-editing in Photoshop) better than I expected. I really like the black silhouettes of the eucalyptus trees against the moon-glowing grey clouds.
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Amelia in the bouncy swing
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