Bill Roper's Journal

We went out to lunch at Red Robin earlier today, then proceeded home. While doing this, we were listening to the new Phineas and Ferb CD. Did we mention that Katie really likes Phineas and Ferb? And since jeff_duntemann mentioned that he and Carol would really like to see some new pictures of the girls...
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The City of Des Plaines finally came out to fix the hole in our back yard. You may have seen the photos that jeff_duntemann posted when he stuck his camera down there and started shooting. Here are a few more as the repair proceeded.
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daisy_knotwise bought markers for Katie. Julie found them. Oh, dear.
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Julie turned fifteen months old today. Naturally, it was time for photos to be taken.
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Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash And here's one more photo of the girls from around Easter. There something just a bit Jimmy Durante-like about Katie in her Tigger sleeper and hat with Julie providing musical accompaniment on the keyboard...

Yesterday was Julie's first birthday, so it was time to pull out the camera and get some fresh photos. Fortunately, the girls decided to cooperate. Mostly.
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And that's the way it was on Julie's birthday. Happy birthday, sweetheart!

We've been running behind on our picture taking. daisy_knotwise misplaced her small camera and Katie managed to get fingerprints on the lens of my big camera which I haven't had time to clean off yet. But the small camera I've been looking to buy showed up on sale this weekend, so I've now picked one up and installed a 16 GB memory card -- good for about 7000 pictures!

I guess I should take some.
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Julie turned nine months old today. Because we figured the place would be insane for dinner -- they were having an all-you-can-eat, all-you-can-drink Superbowl buffet -- daisy_knotwise and I decided to take the girls over to Sweet Baby Ray's for lunch.
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jeff_duntemann, Carol, and many relatives from Carol's side of the family joined us earlier tonight for a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner. We'll be heading out to Bob and Kathy's place tomorrow for Christmas dinner.

daisy_knotwise is downstairs wrapping the last few presents, but just to give you an idea of what things look like now, here's a picture.
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Merry Christmas everyone!

And now, having finally pulled out the camera, I can present pictures from Julie's seven-month birthday. Of course, no photo session is complete without Katie. Just ask Katie...
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