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Luke's Toes
24 months, my brother Mike's #2

As I mentioned in the previous post, there's a confluence of cousins (or grandkids, depending on your point of view) going on at my folks' place, where Anthony has finally gotten to meet all his cousins. Yesterday and today have been non-stop play, non-stop photo opportunities.

I was too busy/exhausted to process them much yesterday, and today is no different, so I'm just going to throw up a few pictures from the first part of yesterday, mostly for the benefit of the extended family who haven't joined us...

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Mike and Grace
Grace is 4

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Josh Working the Heavy Machinery
Three year old Josh is my sister Marci's oldest

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Three Generations
My Dad, My Sister Marci, and her youngest, 10-month-old Jena

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Grace

The new sand pile my folks made in preparation for the summer is wonderful, in the shade on a hillside, with three tons of sand...

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Play Paradise
photo by Marci Kreta

As with playing baseball with Uncle Alan the other day, hitting a few balls has been fun for all ages...

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Me, Pitching to My Brother Mike
photo by Marci Kreta

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Mike Pitching to His Nephew Anthony
photo by Marci Kreta

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Reverse-View
photo by Marci Kreta

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Same Pitch as Above
same pitch, different camera

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Me
Master of the Whiffle Ball
photo by Marci Kreta

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Me
While maneuvering for the lead photo of yesterday's post
photo by Marci Kreta

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Industrious

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Teamwork

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Marci and Jena

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Sand Castle Construction Supplies
having spent a year since his last real sand castle experience

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Luke
with one of the many toys around the house that I played with as a kid

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The “Big” Cousins
Grace (4) · Josh (3) · Anthony (6)

I posted yesterday about Anthony's cousin Titi, and today we add Jena (10 months), Luke (24 months), Josh, and Grace. Anthony had played with Josh last year, but otherwise didn't know his cousins. That was rectified today.

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Josh · Luke · Grace · Anthony

The day was nonstop pandemonium, and all parents involved are totally exhausted, your present author included.

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Anthony and His Four-Month-Old Cousin
Titi
taking a break after some exhausting baseball with Titi's Daddy

Anthony's youngest cousin, Titi, was born four months ago to Uncle Alan and Aunt Natalie. We learned that they were expecting when we were here last year, and now we were able to finally meet her.

Alan snapped a picture of me with Titi during breakfast at a restaurant...

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Titi and her Uncle Jeffy
photo by Alan Friedl

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Rolls of a Four Month Old

Later at Grandma and Grandpa's, after Anthony played Baseball with Uncle Alan, we let Anthony try holding his youngest cousin a bit...

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Cousins

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Gentle Kiss

Titi's mom and her mom (Grandma, AKA “Baba”) were there, so I took the opportunity to grab a three-generation shot...

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Three Generations

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Backyard Baseball

Uncle Alan stopped by to visit for a bit with his wife and four-month-old Titi. He didn't have long because he had an 8-hour drive home waiting, but he had time for a bit of baseball with Anthony.

I took a bunch of shots as they played... here are some I like, arranged as if they were all from the same pitch. The different lighting (the sun was in and out of the clouds) is perhaps disconcerting, but I figure it's a slightly better ordering than “random”...

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Uncle Alan

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Opposing Forces

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Psyche Game

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The Pitch

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Power Swing

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Failed Attempt at Extra Bases
should have been happy with a single

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Returning To the Dugout

Anthony was pretty good at hitting.... he's not too bad with me when we practice, but Uncle Alan is a much better pitcher.

Anthony sent this particular pitch way over the grape arbor.... a definite home run....

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Destiny Calls

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Victory-Lap Stroll

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Serious Stuff
Uncle Alan forgot, sometimes, that the opposition was a six-year-old kid

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Burnt By a Six Year Old Kid
— safe at first —

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Approaching The Line of Demarcation

More on country living during our trip to Ohio....

With family with lots of little kids coming into town this week, my folks are trying to keep the geese (and their copious quantities of poop) down by the lake, so have set up a little fence that marks how close they're allowed to approach. Sometimes they venture a bit too close, and need a gentle reminder of the limits....

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Sending in the Troops

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Driving Off the Invading Hordes

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Vanquished

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And Let That Be a Lesson To You!

Reminds me of doing something similar last year.