April - June 2015

April brought the return of Spring outdoor soccer and a neighborhood Easter Egg hunt.  Anna, Kate and Dad went to Spring Fest, while Jack was at a soccer game this year.  Kate and Anna both performed in this Spring's ballet recital. We found out in May that Jack had placed second in the state and 17th in the nation in his grade for the Math Kangaroo event, so we went to Indy for a small awards ceremony.  At the end of May, Jack, Anna and Dad ran in the Scout About 5K (Jack and Anna) and 10K (Dad).  It poured rain most of the race.  We all had a good run. Anna was the second woman finisher in the 5K, and she won a gift certificate at our local running store.  In June, it finally started getting warm. At the end of the month, all of us participated in the Blast 4 mile race.

Throw-in at Spring soccer game

The neighborhood Easter Egg hunt

Anna with face-painted block P next to the statue block P

Kate milking a cow at Spring Fest

The sisters after the Spring ballet recital

The twins

Jack with his Math Kangaroo awards

Kate and Mom

With one of the summer public art bears

The runners from the Scout About race

Can we have a pool Mom?  (this seemed like a reasonable compromise)

Three of the runner after finishing the Blast

Kate and Mom finishing the Blast

At the Museum Center / Union Terminal

January - March 2015

A relatively short post for this quarter because we just didn't take that many good pictures.  Anna had two roles in the Nutcracker.  This year she was one of the "artillery soliders" in Act One when the mice battle the toy soldiers.  During Act Two, she was a "little tea" dancer during the "tea" dance.   Kate held her sixth birthday party at a pottery crafts store where you glaze a piece, and the store fires it for you.  In March, Jack entered in the Cub Scout Pack Pinewood Derby; the car was good, just not as fast as last year's car, so he didn't get to move to district level this year.  Later in March, the twins turned 10, but we didn't take any pictures!

Anna in Little Tea costume

Kate and friends at her 6th birthday party

Creations at Lego Club

The 2015 Pinewood Derby car

October - December 2014

Jack's Fall season soccer team won their U10 league. Kate and Anna continued in ballet class, and Anna auditioned for the Lafayette Ballet production of the Nutcracker, receiving two roles this year. The Nutcracker performance will be in January. Jack and Anna got a chance to meet Charlie Walker, a retired NASA Astronaut.  In November, we visited Granny and Grandpa for Thanksgiving, and they visited us in December for an early Christmas. Anna and Jack performed in two piano recitals, and Jack started with indoor soccer. Just after Christmas, we all flew to visit Oma and Grandpa Be-bap in Tucson.

Throw-in

Soccer Trophy

2014 Boo at the Zoo

With Astronaut Charlie Walker

Sneering pumpkin, sneering Kate

Anna's Halloween pumpkin

end results of Halloween carving

indoor soccer action

big kick coming

inside Cincinnati Museum Center

part of the 2014 Holiday Train display

receiving Achievement in Music awards after the piano recital

Christmas gift

Christmas morning

getting a ride in Tucson

Reid Park Zoo peacock (keeping the streak alive)

testing out the marimba

kids in a log

photo from the "bone yard" tour

July - September 2014

Late summer included some intensive ballet classes for Anna during July; also, Jack, Anna and Dad ran in the Zoo Run Run 5K.  We met up with our friends Ruth and Kevin with their mom in Washington, DC for lots of tours, museums and exploration.  We started up with school after we returned home.  There aren't too many pictures from late August into early September, in part because Kate fell and broke her left arm on Labor Day weekend.  She spent some time at Riley Children's Hospital in Indy, and she had surgery to place pins in her arms for a few weeks.  She's better now.  While she was hurt, she didn't want pictures with her cast on.  Jack was looking forward to soccer starting, and his team got off to a good start with the first few games at the end of September.

Selfie before the Zoo Run Run

Anna after summer ballet recital

Crossley family at 7th and Indiana in Washington DC

with Kevin and Ruth at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden fountain

TJ with excerpt from the Declaration of Independence

Kate at FDR Memorial

MLK Jr Memorial

In the crowd atop the Lincoln Memorial

White House from the South

lots of trips on the Metro

touching a moon rock at the Air and Space Museum

stand back, we're about to do science!

at the Zoo to see the pandas

fooling around at the zoo

evening after our West Wing tour

more science at the Natural History Museum

on the National Mall (a Mall with no stores? - that took a little explaining)

start of soccer season (we had a chilly September)