Pictures!

So most of you are saying we should go blue for the porch.  The trouble is I do not love blue.  Weird, huh?  I'll keep thinking about it, though, and maybe blue will speak to me.  Here's a picture of the current color (the white parts will stay white, Summer).  Joe wanted to wear those goggles to the Mass for his brothers' baptism/first communion.  He settled for putting them on the instant it was over.

We aren't planning to paint the door.  Our front door is a Craftsman-ish kind of thing and the wood is in pretty good shape.  Here's a picture of the inside.  Please ignore the clothing in this picture.  It was Christmas Eve and we were dancing to Bruce Cockburn's Christmas album in between putting ornaments on the tree, and I guess we were just enjoying the season too much to attend to petty details like matching clothes.  Over on the right you can see one of the French doors between our living room and our little music room -- same idea as the front door.  I like them unpainted.

One more picture for good measure.  Today my niece is a year old.  She's my only niece and I wanted to do something special for her birthday instead of just sending a random hunk of plastic, so I made her an outfit. With flowered pants, because I do love flowered pants and none of my children will wear them -- imagine that.  I tried it on Pete to get the hems right, and discovered that something is funny about the sizing:  it's too big through the shoulders.  It might fit John Henry the steel-driving baby Lord Lord, but I think my niece will be swimming in it.  Here is a picture of Pete modeling it, with the hook and eye already undone because he does not have steel-driving shoulders.  It's the thought that counts, right?