The great adventure begins! The Cole family at Bush Intercontinental, July 25, 2006! 

Daddy with his beautiful Lily, enjoying some Irish countryside. 

Mark took this picture of me and my four children, walking down one of the streets in Dunlaoghaire, Ireland that I walked down when I was younger. 

Laura and her grandpa, the day after we arrived in Dublin. 

Here is a picture of Matthew and me at the famous Powerscourt waterfall, near Dublin.

Trip to the Houston Butterfly Museum

We took the kids to the butterfly museum on Saturday.

A butterfly has landed. 

Me too! 

Happy in the Ergo on Mommy's back.

Too late. 

What happens if I blow on one? 

Got one! 

Matthew signed up at the library to record the books he reads this summer. The gaol was 100, but yesterday he turned in his sheets with 120 books listed! Here he is putting his name on the top notice board at the library. He also got a medal and a signed certificate. He kept track of his books himself and recorded them down as he read, I am so very proud of him.  

Cole kids 

Annie is a week or so away from being 6 months. She has 2 teeth on the bottom and is the best baby. Here she is in her walker thingy.  

Lily loves cats and the musical Cats. Here she is dressed up as a cat, complete with tale. She dances around the house singing the Cats songs and generally being a cat!  

Laura in costume. 

July 4th was spent with our friends. We shot off a rocket (the boys spent a long time trying to shoot it out of a really high tree with a sling shot), ate wonderful organic food, read a story about the flag 'F is for Flag', then kids made a paper flag - they worked well together to make the flag then each one got to put on a few stars while reading out the states and it's capital. Then we sang patriotic songs to Jeanne's piano playing. Good clean fun! 

working on the flag. 

Gotta have sparklers on July 4th.