Summer Trip to New York ...

She is such a girl! We arrived in Rome, NY before leaving for Watkins Glen. Eli found a bunch of shoes and boots at Barry and Kathy's. She tried them all on and modeled them for everyone.

Madrina Rachel and Eli

Grandma Joyce and Eli at brother Tim's 50th birthday party at his new home on Seneca Lake

Eli y Mama!

Tim and Beth's Beach

Tim built this entire house himself, a traditional timber frame home

All the trim is black walnut milled from a tree that grew on Tim's land in Ithaca

Seneca Lake

More of the house ...

Greg and Uncle Jack

Mi Esposa

Aunt Connie and Joyce

Niece Hannah and Aunt Beth and some one I don't know ...

Jack and Greg's butts. I don't know why.

It was our Anniversary weekend, too!

Uncle Timmy and Eli

After Tim's party, we went to the St. Lawrence River with Barry and family ... Kathy, Rachel, Kaleigh and Brett.

Eli did great on the sailboat. She loved it all!

If we don't swim ashore, we use the dinghy

Just back from a nice run

Barry's boat, a Cape Dory 33

Making s'mores. Neka had never heard of this, melted marshmallows sandwiched between Graham crackers and Hershey's chocolate. She loved them!

A s'more.

Eli and Rachel getting ready for bed on the boat

Summer Days

We've been having a busy summer. The weather has been nice, not too hot although it's been raining a lot. We haven't had many beach days but on the other hand, we haven't had to use at home the air conditioner at all. These photos were taken during the month of July.

Estas fotos fueron tomadas en el mes de Julio. El clima ha estado agradable porque no ha hecho mucho calor pero ha llovido mucho. El sol viene y va por raticos. Tratamos de sacar a Eli lo que mas se pueda ya que el invierno llegara pronto. Yo tambien he aprovechado de tomar mas sol este a-o debido a una deficiencia de vitamina D que me descubrieron a inicios de a-o. Gracias a Dios ya estoy mucho mejor.

I'm not sure what's going on here, but she sure is cute!

Beach babes, Eli and Luciana! Our friends from Ottawa came down for a week and this is their daughter Luciana with Eli. We had a lot of fun.

Stroller babes, Eli and Luciana!

Katia, Katia's Mom, Clarena, Eli, and Luciana at Harvard.

Mom and Eli

I don't know who the two guys in the background are, but the people in front are Katia and Luciana, Clarena and Eli and ... Katia's Mom.

A walk along the ocean with our friends Luciana, Katia, Katia's Mom, and Daniel ...

... and speaking of walks, these guys walked right under Clarena's office window one day!!!!

Eli just bein' Eli!

Beautiful smile!

Luckily, this usually happens about once a day and lasts up to one hour.

This is Eli with Lee, her early intervention specialist. When Eli first came, Clarena arranged to have Lee come work with Eli. So, sponsored by the State, she came every week for a year. It was Lee's last day ... Eli did so well on her first "evaluation" after starting the program that Lee was fired (the State said Eli was doing great and that Lee wasn't needed).

But Eli loved being challenged every week by Lee and Lee's learning exercises. Eli would always ask, "Lee comin?"

She's going to miss her.

Le ensene a Eli a comer fresas. Aunque no parezca tiene su ciencia, sobretodo para una nina de dos a-os.

Aqui estamos en la playa, en un fin de semana que papa estaba de viaje

One day at the beach while Daddy was out of town

Eli taking pictures of Mom (mostly).

Eli tomandome fotos

Pic also taken by Eli