Steve took Della to the office and then to the zoo on Friday. I asked Della what she saw at the zoo and she said Bob. Which is the name of Steve’s boss. Today she was saying, where’s Daddy’s Bob?
Look at the clever hashtags in the background. You can use those for free.
Della riding a zoo bear.
Also, look at this father!
We went camping with Marc, Megan, Adrian, and Beatrice. We touched a frog, we got lost, we saw mermaid daddy, we read The Lolackths (Lorax).
Here we are in the back seat, on our way.
George and Beatrice put stuff in their mouths.
Others hung out in hammocks. I wish I could find the picture of me and Steve in the hammock with Marc on our camping trip in 2010. But I think it’s on an old hard drive that weighs as much as an iron and has a cord that is not USB.
This is like the most casual sleeping situation George has ever known.
More typically:
Turning now to Father’s Day. Steve does so much for me and the children, next-door-neighbor Dorothy gets mad at me sometimes. You don’t know how good you have it, she says in her 80-year-old, Irish Catholic, Fairfax County way. Probably not! 
We love him, and we would not have survived in the wilds of 1957, Dorothy, when wives did all the things that wives back then did.
Della made this tie-dyed-T-shirt picture frame for Dad. Or anyway somebody made it. We have all these daycare craft projects on the fridge, and sometimes Della walks by and says, “Michelle made that.”
Couple of expired flower pictures to round things out. We love you, Steve!
Della had an accident! “Student fell face first onto deck without ability to use hands to break fall. Student lacerated face and nose.” Sounds serious. But as you can see, “lacerate” is just a serious word for “scrape.” Thankfully, Della made a full recovery. The incident report blames “loss of balance by student when turning around. Age appropriate.”
That same day…
Farewell to maternity leave and George’s hook up to a 24/7 milk drip. Tomorrow George joins Della at the Caterpillar Club. Thanks, George, for all the…
Crying/Screaming
Crowded Bathing
Cousin Cuddling
Baby Being
Hard Partying
Left Leaning (Better than right leaning!)
King Making
And Sweet Loving!
della and george 