August and everything after (?)

As summer slowly winds down, Leila has been making the most of it, enjoying the nice weather, learning words, singing and dancing, and ordering around the universe. Here's the video compilation:





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Now playing: Counting Crows - Einstein On The Beach
via FoxyTunes

Well if you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it

Since the last time we went to a train museum happened when Leila was negative one month old, we decided to try again at the New York Museum of Transportation/Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum in nearby Rush, NY.

We learned about Rochester's old subway, took a trolley ride, explored some train cars





and did some climbing, with a little parental assistance





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Now playing: Johnny Cash - Rock Island Line
via FoxyTunes

on our way to 2. . .

One month until she turns 2 and the tantrum are in full swing when she does not get her way. Here are some pics from our trip to California when she was still an angel.









With great-grandma at mom's cousin's wedding:


The happy couple: