500

Ah, what could be more involved and self-congratulatory? But here we are on our 500th blog post; why not take this opportunity for a kind of arbitrary journey through time and space? A retrospective. Here's where and when it all began: April 17, 2007; Ida, barely out of Ella's body, breathing air.

By the next day, Cousin Elsie was on the scene!

This is Ida's first Christmas. Grambee was PUMPED.


These girls were so fortunate to have Chandler looking after them. Us, too.

Christmas #2. No one wilder than G-Toko.

Before long, Ida was living it up at Tumbleweeds ...

And noticing something new about Ella's stomach. There was something in there. Ida liked to talk to the baby, right through the skin!

Before we knew it, Miki was upon us!

Ferociously.

Somewhere before then, here in PDX, Theo showed up. You can tell that she and Miki are already getting along really well. (This is part of a very fine sequence in which Theo drinks cheap beer from a can.)

Remember when Miki couldn't even walk? All that knee-walking! This is just last summer; now she never walks. She runs.

Or struts.

Occasionally we even saw the outside cousins, like the energetic D. Hawk.

And Uncle Arthur was often on the scene. Rumor has it he's been giving plenty of mustache rides, but he has not been wearing this shirt very often. Perhaps such advertisement is unnecessary.

Before long we were kind of like a family, trying to have holiday cards and everything.

Is 500 enough? The action is nonstop, for certain.

This is some breast-pumping, yesterday morning. Miki gets milk out of her belly button! It's a miracle.

See ya.