Growing Up Fast

Here' s a couple more Sophie and Max photos from the past few weeks.

Max swinging at the playground--he starting to get ornery when you try and take him out of the swing before he's good and finished.
Mamie taking a walk with her grandkids down Main Street in Charlestown.
View from the bottom of the slide.

Nice fall scene in our neighborhood in Charlestown.Falling asleep on the couch...

Halloween 2009

Howdy, folks! Got back safe and sound from the red eye from San Diego (after a rollickin' good time at the American Society of Nephrology convention) and was eager to see the pics of Sophie & Max's 2009 Halloween: Sophie was a Tinkerbell fairy (along with homemade wings, since she lost the originals somewhere unknown) and Max was a little piggie, though the costume was a little tight and therefore he didn't wear it for very long. Sophie cleaned up in the candy department, and now the challenge will be sticking to our candy rationing agreement.

Gone Fishing

Gone fishing in the metaphorical sense.

I'll be at the American Society of Nephrology meeting in San Diego, CA for the next few days.  

Not much else going on--last weekend/week was spent recovering from the flu (H1N1, perhaps?) so no new updates or pics.  See you in a few.   

Thoreau's Former Home

A nice fall day in New England calls for a walk around Walden Pond. Nice colors, great walking weather. When I was in high school, I wrote a term paper on Thoreau's Walden Pond; now nearly 20 years later my daughter is running around on the site of his former cabin. Pretty cool.

More Fair

Cute video of Sophie brushing a calf, and pausing every so often to check out the calf's reaction.

Topsfield Fair '09

What a difference a year makes! Check out these photos from almost exactly one year ago, when the Hellman family (then consisting of only three) visited the annual Topsfield Fair, about 30 minutes north of Boston. Sophie's done a lot of growing since then.

Claire & Max.
In the driver's seat as usual.
Taking a ride on the carousel with papa.
Rare family photo with everybody looking at the camera!
The Perfect Fair Food Trifecta: ear of corn, corn dog, and (not pictured here) fried dough.
Crazy pumpkin sculpture.
Michael Jackson Memorial Pumpkin

$$$ Pumpkin display.

Chaos as usual...

Chaos as usual in the Hellman household...



BTW, congrats to the Minnesota Twins for winning the AL Central last night...I had the game on and really enjoyed following it...unfortunately, it looks as if in doing so they earned the right to get demolished by the high-priced NY Yankees...good luck Twins!