Photo Album

2001

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	Matthew looking at a frog we captured with a net while visiting somebody at her house out in the country. It wasn't a bad trip, but we learned later that the owner of the house is a rabid anti-Semite who thinks that Hitler had the right idea. Needless to say, we've never talked to them again. Let that be a lesson to you: the fact that someone seems nice on the surface doesn't necessarily mean anything.
	Matthew and David staring at the dessert display in a local restaurant.
	Yes, it's the bowling alley! The boys haven't quite got the mechanics of bowling down at this point, but they still seem to enjoy it. I had to cringe every time they threw a ball though, because they would often launch it well off the ground and then let it crash down onto the surface with a terrible noise. I was actually surprised that the bowling alley employees didn't come over and ask them to stop.
	This is Matthew playing with his backyard canal toy. This is one of those toys that seems better on paper than it is real-life. You assemble canals and waterways from plastic parts, fill it all with water, and have fun. In theory. In practice the joints keep leaking and the kids can't play with it unless you're hovering over their shoulders because the pieces are too difficult to connect and disconnect.
	David and Tara at a summer trip. To be honest, I don't recall where this was.
	David in the basement, playing with his kitchen set. Yes, I know, kitchen sets are supposedly a girl's toy. Well the boys both liked it anyway, and they have plenty of masculine-approved toys like toy monster trucks and guns.
	Matthew and David riding the cars at the "Centre Island" amusement park. This small amusement park is geared mainly toward families and children and is nestled on an actual island just off Toronto's lakeshore. You take a ferry to get there, and there are no cars allowed; you go on foot.
	Matthew and David at the zoo!
	I love the way the bears sit there looking up at us. They almost look harmless from that vantage point, although you wouldn't want to jump in there and find out.
	Fuzzy in the front lawn.
	Fuzzy again.
	Fuzzy and David, with matching red-eye and white-eye.
	The boys helping with the renovation.
	This was a little before it became impossible to get a normal-looking pose out of the boys.
	The boys in the bathtub. Check out the toys; at this time, Matthew still controlled the tempo of their play, and he liked monster trucks. David was always more into animals.
	They look like they just got away with something.
	The log ride!
	The boys in one of those guided-car rides, at Centre Island.

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