Hat Track

 A hat

made from car track,

for Tikvah

from Xandra.

Lightweight

Most nights since Xandra was just a tiny baby, Joe has done push ups.  Not traditional push ups with his nose to the floor, but Pull push ups where he lifts a child up, bench press style, twelve times and counts aloud with each up.  What started with just one child and twelve easy push ups five and a half years ago, has turned into 5 kids, some of them quite heavy, and 60 push ups.  Here's a glance at Tikvah's first go at Pull push ups.   

I believe that was a yawn in the previous picture.  Apparently, this is boring stuff for a big five day old.

For now, she's a lightweight.  Unfortunately for Joe they don't stay that way for long.

Construction Zone

Cousin Cora

An Unlikely Place

At four days old,

Tikvah had the privilege of meeting cousins

Cora and Evie for the first time,

in a rather unlikely place:

atop Grandma Mary's kitchen counters.

Three Firsts

Tikvah's first

sink bath.

Tikvah's first

bath at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Tikvah's first bath.

Nothing Like It

There's nothing like a good book at bedtime

and a Grandma to go with it.

An Upward Glance

At the Tim Pull house, if you happen to be lying under the coffee table in the living room and glance up, you'll find a record of moments from recent years, forever recorded in black marker on the underside of the table.  It might be hard to imagine what kind of moments one would record on the underside of a coffee table, so I've collected a sampling of photos to serve as inspiration for others looking to scrapbook on their living room furniture.

There are first visits from important people,

family quarrels,

engagements on the property,

boasting for the purposes of rubbing salt in a wound,

and big announcements at the holidays, to name a few.

It was no surprise then, when Tikvah's first visit to the Pull place

found Tim and Tikvah under the table,

recording the date and time of her visit.

She didn't seem too excited,

but in year's to come, she'll be reminded of her first visit to Grandpa Tim's place, direct from the hospital,

 whenever she has cause to lay under the coffee table and glance upward.