Children
have a habit of Fooling Around!
Boys get physical.
That's the least we can say, having lived with five of them. They love to
roughhouse, and do it constantly, day in, day out.
And rough is the operative word. In less than a year, they broke two
solid and sturdy leather armchairs, just by rolling around on them. They
paid for repairing the second, and have not done that since!
But the roughhousing continues apace.
In this photo, Alex was refereeing a 2002 wrestling match between Alban and
Charlie, on the one hand, and Nick on the other. After this photo was taken,
Charlie says that Nick did a backflip and squished him and Alban. Note the
shoes and clothes discarded behind the wrestlers, and the games also
littering the living room floor.
But fooling around is not simply roughhousing. It is having fun, and here is a collection of pictures of our
children having fun. That is what they do most!
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Charles in his little tub in La
Bellanderie, April 1997
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At
the Hanlons for Brendan's birthday party,
we got to play with his new toys! September 2001 |
Alex with an orange slice. August 2000
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Alban and Nick fighting for the fridge in
September 2000, But but not for the usual reason: in this case, each
wants to affirm that the words "I'm the BEST", magnets on the
fridge, apply to him.
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And when they got to Disney World
in July 2000, it was hot, which furnished the perfect
justification for spraying water on everybody!!
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At Tom's birthday
party in 2000, he modeled his thankfully temporary tattoos with
Charles and Alban, equally thankfully equally temporary. |
Jumping onto a floater in London, July 2001. We like swimming pools!
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Nick, Selrahc and Tom in
O'Neill's Surf Shop (founded in Santa Cruz in
1952), Carnaby Street, London, July 2001. TRUE!
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Tom 's genealogy is at times brought into
question. You will notice that he did not miss this opportunity at San
Francisco Zoo to cross his eyes and otherwise confirm his close kinship
with the family members around him in the picture!
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Here's Daphné during the same
visit to San Francisco Zoo establishing her own relationship with a chimp. October
1999. Another of that visit here.
We are all aware that one of the sadder parts of growing up to be a
woman is that you have to hug a lot of chimps to find a real hairy
gorilla!!
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