Showing off his new hat.

Sitting on the shoulders of a giant.

He loves to help wipe up his tray.

Michael gets a lanyard like Daddy's!

Proud to be a Metron employee.

He takes his job very seriously.

Wearing "glasses."

Getting ready to go outside and play.

Michael is twenty-three months old!

He still does the eyebrow thing that he did as a baby.

Michael built this whole tower by himself.

Hold on -- Michael's got a call.

What's that?

It's for you.

We're still working on getting the basement together.

Michael "helps" with the painting.

The birds on the wire "all flied away."

Investigating soap bubbles.

Cute bathtime boy.

Another bathtime face.

Michael's ready for his bedtime story.

Barbara went with us to the National Zoo!

Mommy and Michael admire the pandas.

Fascinated to see real, live animals.

The panda practically posed for us.

Heading across the bridge to the aviary.

Michael was perplexed that the red pandas look like foxes.

Learning how pandas eat bamboo.

Michael was more interested in the gorilla than in posing.

Flamingos rest in the sun.

A murderous-looking cassowary.

The orangutan does his high-wire act.

If turtles had a traffic jam.

Even with high walls and a moat, the tiger looks scary.

A lioness.

There were all kinds of fun ramps to walk down.

Michael couldn't get enough of ...

... identifying animals on the relief.

Watching sea lions sunning themselves.

"Sea lions come from the sea."

Mommy with Michael at the bear statue.

Barbara and Michael.

Acting out emotions: sad, ...

... happy, ...

... and angry.

Michael pretends to take a nap ...

... with Big Bird and his fire truck.

The trike is as fun to push as to ride.

Two years ago we taught Eric how to play Settlers, ...

... and this year he wiped the floor with us all.

Some Settlers strategizing with Eric.

Petra and Amy laugh together.

We got to meet Baby Luke!

Luke and his mommy.

The Family Williams.

Michael giggles with Luke.

Daddy helps himself to a seat.

John the refrigerator wordsmith.

Sondra and Petra help prepare a big dinner.

Chillin' while we're grillin'.

No clue what Michael's doing here.

Michael warms up to Amy.

Fun with the grill.

Okay, maybe a little too much fun with the grill.

Michael explains how to light the grill.

A little starved for Mommy's attention.

Interested in those cookies on his shirt.

Daddy and Michael dine in style at our "dining room table."

Relaxing after a good dinner.

Old friends: Petra, Amy, Kellan, Sondra.

Michael discovers the fun of blue LEDs.

Windy enough for ya?

Proud to sit on a rock and ...

... push the stroller at Brambleton Park.

I like the townhouse street layout with the park here.

We saw a mommy mallard and a daddy mallard.