Easysticks - by the Cain Sosnoff family

Family selfie at a woodsy Titlow overlook

Shiny

Weekend music practice often looks like this (collaborative)

And cooperative

Big guy at the dentist

Annie worked hard to attract this friend to her feeder

Spooky

Landry has been taking swimming lessons

Catching snow

Goofball

I came outside to go to work but found that I could not leave!

The trombone in its case has been nicknamed “Breadstick”

Reading ALL the dragon books

Reading some of the dragon books

Annie visited Biosphere 2 in Tucson

Kitties’ favorite part of the day

Supey came to the Y to watch Landry swim!

Collector

Snake Lake is frozen

Hazel participated in the high school solo-ensemble music festival this year!

She prepared a saxophone solo and was accompanied by a friend on piano

Here was her excellent sax-playing adjudicator during the mini lesson

Watch the entire performance here: [[Meadowland video]]

I realized after my holiday post that I’d left out a lot of December. Time to catch up!

We spent a day on Mount Rainier around the winter solstice

There was quite a bit of playful posing

And cooperative car-riding children

Badminton in the yard in December — so PNW

December was incredibly musical!

Hazel had two concerts, and friends variously came to watch

Plus we brought Landry and two pals to Tuba Christmas Tacoma. So cool!

So stately

It’s still hard to make a bed with a cat in it

Brita and I rang in December in Toronto!

That’s mighty Lake Ontario back there

Misty, frozen morning at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge

Bird enthusiasm

Landry conquered fifth grade swimming!!! We’re so proud of him

Christmastime 2024 family selfie! Taken in NH

Christmas morning

Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel

Car hijinks & booster seat phones

Instrument sculpture

Testing saxophones in the warehouse’s whisper room

Turkeys by the dozen in Jamaica Plain

Camp friends by the dozen as well!

Big kids playing with little friends

Hanukkah with Brita’s menorah

Unseasonably warm at Habitat in Belmont

Sunset on the Charles River. Photo credit to Laura!

A visit with the Hartnetts in Dover. Photo credit to Patrick!

Dreams do come true! Standing ON Silver Lake

New woods explorer

Making use of our travel menorah at Pine Point

We visited Grammy and Grampy and their new stone

Gorgeous, reflective polar wade to start 2025

Pensive puzzling on the final night of Hanukkah

Winter walk at The Nature Conservancy property in Madison

Look who we found at Tin Mountain! Photo credit to Heather

We borrowed snowshoes from the Tin Mountain collection

Home sweet home with the lonely kitty babies

We rode the carousel on opening night at Zoolights! (Friday)

Thanks to an invitation by Grandma and Grandpa

Steadfast cocoa holders and carousel witnesses

NW Trek family selfie (Saturday)

On Sunday we installed our Christmas Tree!

These two played holiday Mad-Libs

Choo-choo

Cute as a button (Every day)

Pumpkin Loaf-in-Chief (Always)

Delighted by the many cawing crows

Family portrait outtake on the brand new Titlow footbridge (could be titled “bossy momma strikes again”)

Today – Hazel met Landry at the school bus

10/29 – Orange sat squarely on Landry’s legs (awww)

10/27 – Food pickup helpers

10/25 – Pretty windows

10/23 – Wife date at the Museum of Flight

10/22 – First jazz band concert at the junior high

10/20 – Kitty snuggles

10/19 – Soccer game victory

10/15 – Hazel’s braces came off

10/12 and 10/13 – Fall home regatta

10/4 – Hazel gave a speech at a youth sailing fundraiser

Landry has joined the fifth grade band at his school!

As everyone knows, it’s a big challenge to learn a new instrument while learning a new school! (Picture taken on the 3rd day of band)

Having an interested big sister helps (Picture taken 2 weeks later)

Learning the first five notes [[video]]
(Video taken during his 4th week of practice)

The grown ups visited Federated Forest State Park without the children

Gorgeously mossy

Teeming with fungi

Enormous bird footprints!

We agreed that the White River is our favorite