and then there was cake

(concluding our 1st birthday scrapbook.)

Part Two

Simone's Aunt Natalie and twin cousins, Lillian and Olivia, came up from Brooklyn to join the birthday festivities.


(Simone and Lillian)


(Lillian)


(Olivia)


(Simone, Lillian, Olivia)


(Simone and Natalie)


And her great-grandparents, Pat and Jack, got her a tricycle!

The Prodigy

Simone Turns 1

Part I of the birthday weekend scrapbook



Mike's Aunt Naomi came to visit (from England, by way of NJ), and then we headed to meet Mike's cousin and her family -- Michal, Noam and Noa -- who happen to be working in NH for the summer, from Israel (their daughter, Noa, is just a couple months younger than Simone).


(that's Noa and Michal in the back, Mike and Simone's faces in the foreground)


(Simone, Noa, Michal)


(Michal, Noa, Naomi, Simone)



(Simone and Noa)


Michal, Noa, Noam, Mike

More from Seattle

(Chie, Simone, Georgia, Irina)




(Chie, Simone, Mike)

The Old and the New

We flew out to Seattle to surprise Michael A on his 40th birthday!

New Kid on the Block

Last weekend Simone got to meet Johnny and Dina's new baby boy, Townes, in Boston.




(Dina with babes)