baby sister

Kids do the darndest things

Shiloh's new favorite toys are Chavon's nativity scene figures. i feel catholic because the virgin mary keeps popping up on my bedposts or tables etc. However sometimes she seems a bit...um different. Here she is in her easter regalia.

i think this was probably shad's idea

This is from when we were moving. Many car rides back and forth, back and forth, and usually Rosie usually ended up pretty crunched by boxes on the way back. Here shiloh is sharing her seat. This probably qualifies simultaneoulsy as cruelity to both children and animals but hey, it made a cute picture :P

desert

dirt dirt and more dirt. obviously shiloh quite enjoyed herself. thanks for the shelter wilcoxens!

Shiloh and her boy, Noah.
Shiloh on Noah's bike. He can ride just like the big guys.

Noah is so cute, he reminds me of squirt from finding nemo!

shaddy and chris (and shad's almost twin mike in the buggy)

When Jamie takes too many biology classes

Here is a funny (but very true) quote 

"By a variety of measures, the species Homo sapiens is more microbial than human. Microorganisms comprise only a small, albeit significant, percentage of the body weight (between 2 and 5 pounds of live bacteria). However, in terms of cell numbers, we are about 10% human and 90% bacterial! Further, the number of genes in our microbiome may exceed the number of human genes by two orders of magnitude, making us genetically 1% human and 99% bacterial! Consequently, bacteria play a major role in bodily functions, including immunity, digestion, and protection against disease. Colonization of the human body by microorganisms occurs at the very beginning of human life, and many of these organisms become truly indigenous to the host."

from wikipedia: There are approximately ten times as many bacterial cells as human cells in the human body, with large numbers of bacteria on the skin and in the digestive tract.

 "A visitor from outer space might think the human race is just one big chain of microbe hotels."

"The crook of your elbow is not just a plain patch of skin. It is a piece of highly coveted real estate, a special ecosystem, a bountiful home to no fewer than six tribes of bacteria. Even after you have washed the skin clean, there are still one million bacteria in every square centimeter"

"The bacterial cells... outnumber human cells by 10 to 1, meaning that if cells could vote, people would be a minority in their own body."

Bates Nut Farm 08 and 07

Shiloh went with her yaya (my mom) to Bate's Nut Farm recently...Here are some of the pictures she took from that, and some pictures of our trip there last October. I absolutely love this farm. There website is here.
Its funny because this year she looks almost too big for the little pony, and last year I thought she looked almost too small to ride. :)

BATES NUT FARM 'O8
pumpkins!


sugar and spice and everything nice


Shiloh has been talking about this for days. I can tell she loved it :)


ok and then here are the pictures from last year.... (i think i am probably the worst blogger ever...it takes me a whole year to get my pictures up. lol)

BATES NUT FARM 'O7

more pumpkins!

more horsies! (aw shiloh is just a baby!)

baby goat love


this pig is the ugliest cute thing i have ever seen

ooohhhh......the ghost of disneylandia!

oh, i forgot to post my favorite disneyland picture.
it is a picture of a ghost in the cemetary in front of the haunted mansion ride. lol.
shad says it is just a glare from the sun, but i know better. lol
ghosts just love dineyland. and hot tubs too.

the labyrinth

Shad made the coolest thing ever today.

It was like a 20ft X 20ft fort for shiloh. Actually I think labyrinth would be a more appropriate term. I kept expecting Ludo to pop out. It had like 3 "rooms" and came complete with secret passageways and tricky dead ends. I think he used like every old sheet we own. but it was very cool and shiloh loves it.

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The mirror at the end of a passage


Shad poking his head out of the fort (this is what it looked like from above, except it covered the whole room)