Easysticks - by the Cain Sosnoff family

Hanging and swinging

Lauren came to town and played with us at the playground

Baby by late summer evening light

Hazel playing while unaware of the camera

Landry making Landry sounds

Observers

Balancing act

Hazel was way into caring for her baby today

And selected this camp shirt for herself

Elfin baby

Lincoln? Outside? Nope, just a friendly neighborhood lookalike (this pic is a forgotten treasure from a few days ago)

Landry in concentration mode

Big sis zipped in to be part of the action

Reunited with the boppy

A couple of Mickeys

I struck a deal with Hazel to let me take her picture

It’s quite lovely to photograph three willing subjects

Bounding off to the Troll Bridge and beyond

Discussing that poison ivy has three leaves together. Hazel loves the number three!

Alone at the intersection of Highland Farm Loop and Fern Trail

Who? Where?

Two month stats: 13 lbs 10 oz, 22.5 inches (Already doubled his birth weight! Whoa!)

Landry’s done a lot of growing over the last two months

Tummy sliding

Just 12 weeks after having first been introduced to this playground toy Hazel can do it by herself!

We visited a new Audubon property today

Hazel’s shirt matched the pond scum and lilypads

In addition to wetlands there were trails through pine forests

And rocks to climb and peer over

Here Hazel is reminding us that blue “lasers” mark the trails away from the parking lot

Landry slept for most of our walk

But not all of it

Waterfall!

Thank goodness for our weekly visits with Sutton

Hazel’s kitty baby is in a sling

The best

Hazel likes to find long sticks and tries to touch leaves on trees

Here’s when we were playing hide and seek and she found me

Hiding under a playground deck

Demonstrating his improving head control

Heather and Landry (asleep)

Heather and Landry (awake)

Hazel in a tube

Landry asleep in the shadows

Hazel’s homemade kid table

We talk a lot about Landry’s firsts lately but Hazel still has some too — today was kayaking

Here’s the dance of excitement that came right before Hazel’s first kayak ride

While Landry took a long nap in the beco with Grammy,

Hazel drove the boat (again)

And was a stellar passenger (again, though the boat was docked in this old one)

And didn’t cover her eyes for this picture

Grampy, just like the rest of us, was quickly charmed by Landry’s smiles